Frazer Nash Bibliography

Original Compilation by James Trigwell

Contributions from James Trigwell, Bob Schmitt, Leroy Cubicciotti, Geoff Dowdle and R.L. Jennings.

Books with significant content on the postwar Frazer Nash; and others

Publication Author Date Publisher
The Chain-drive Frazer Nash David Thirlby 1965 Motorraces Book Club
The Le Mans Replica Frazer Nash Denis Jenkinson 1966 Profile Publications
Frazer Nash David Thirlby 1977 Haynes
From Chain Drive to Turbocharger Denis Jenkinson 1984 Patrick Stephens
Frazer Nash - What Memories That Name Arouses R.L. Jennings 1998 R.L. Jennings
The Frazer Nash 1923 - 1957 David Thirlby and Tony Bancroft 2000 Thirlby Publicity
Ultimate BMW & Frazer Nash Colin Pitt 2001 Unique Motor Books
All For Nothing? My Own Frazer Nash Story Nic Dyer

2001

Nic Dyer
The Post-War Frazer Nash James Trigwell and Anthony Pritchard 2009 Palawan Press Limited
Archie Frazer-Nash, Engineer Trevor Tarring  and Mark Joseland

2011

The Frazer Nash Archives

Books with good articles on the postwar Frazer Nash

Publication

Article Author Date Publisher
The Motor Year Book - Pomeroy/Walkerley 1950 Temple Press
The Motor Year Book - Pomeroy/Walkerley 1952 Temple Press
British Motor Cars Frazer Nash John F. Speed 1952 G.T. Foulis
Racing Car Review - Denis Jenkinson 1953 Grenville Publishing
Sports Cars in Action - John R. Bond 1954 Henry Holt & Company
British Racing Green - Anthony Pritchard 1969 George Allen & Unwin
The Racing Sports Car - Anthony Pritchard 1970 Pelham
Automobile Quarterly, Vol. 11, No.1 Sons of the 328 Bill Morgan 1973 Automobile Quarterly
Automobile Quarterly, Vol. 11, No.1 Le Mans Replica Impressions Bill Morgan 1973 Automobile Quarterly
Modern Classics - Rich Taylor 1978 Charles Scribners
Classic Sports Cars - Cyril Posthumus 1980 Hamlyn
Track Tests - Sports Cars - Michael Bowler 1981 Hamlyn
Roy Salvadori - Salvadori/Pritchard 1985 Patrick Stephens
Specialist British Sports/Racing Cars - Anthony Pritchard 1986 Osprey
Directory of Classic Sports-Racing Cars - Mike Lawrence 1987 Aston Publications
My Cars, My Career - Moss/Nye 1988 Guild Publishing
Automobile Quarterly, Vol. 29, No. 4

The Closed Link in the Frazer Nash Chain - 1954 Le Mans Coupe

Jonathan A. Stein 1991 Automobile Quarterly
British Sports Cars in America - Jonathan A. Stein 1993 Automobile Quarterly
At the Limit: Twenty-One Classic Cars That Shaped a Century of Motor Sport - Nick Mason, Mark Hale 1998 Motorbooks International
British Sports Cars

Frazer Nash Mille Miglia

Rainer W. Schlegelmilch/Hartmut Lehbrink 2010 H.F. Ullmann ISBN 3833111542

Books with good or rare photos of the postwar Frazer Nash

Publication

Article Author Date Publisher
The Le Mans Story - Georges Fraichard 1954 Bodley Head
British Racing Green - Louis Klemantaski 1957 Bodley Head
International Auto Parade, Vol. II -

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1958 Arthur Logoz
The Great Cars - Ralph Stein 1967 Ridge Press/Hamlyn
Sports Car Racing - Denis Jenkinson 1982 Automobile Year
Track Pass - Geoff Goddard 1990 Crowood Press
Mon Ami Mate - Chris Nixon 1991 Transport Bookman
24 Heures du Mans - Moity/Teissedre 1992 J-P Barthelemy
Sebring - Ken Breslauer 1995 David Bull
American Racing - Tom Burnside 1996 Konemann
Stirling Moss - Racing with the Maestro - Karl Ludvigsen 1997 Haynes
Bristol: An Illustrated History - Charles Oxley

The Book of Sports Cars - Charles Lowe Markham & Mark Sherwin
Picture History of World Sports Cars

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Stuart Seagar

British Sports Cars - (author)?

Magazines with good articles on the postwar Frazer Nash

Publication

Article Author Date
Autocar New 120MPH Sports Car

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November 21, 1947
The Motor Frazer Nashes for Formula B - March 17, 1948
Autocar New Bodies for Frazer Nash - October 8, 1948
Autocar The Frazer Nash - January 23, 1948
The Motor The 2 litre Frazer Nash High Speed Model - February 4, 1948
The Motor Frazer Nash Sports and Competition Models - October 20, 1948
Autocar Inside Story of Culpan's Third at Le Mans - June 29, 1949
Autocar Frazer Nash for 1950 - September 16, 1949
Autosport Road Test - May 18, 1951
Autocar New Frazer Nash Convertible - September 28, 1951
Autocar A Single-seater Frazer Nash - March 21, 1952
Autocar Frazer Nashs revised for 1953 - August 8, 1952
Motor 1953 Cars - September 17, 1952
Autosport Frazer Nash in 1953 (a Frazer Nash advert) - October 24, 1952
Autocar Road Test - January 2, 1953
Motor New Frazer Nash Hardtop - May 6, 1953
Autocar Frazer Nash for Le Mans - May 15, 1953
Autocourse Road Test - July 1953
Road & Track Frazer Nash 2.6 - August 1953
Motor Sport Road Test - March 1954
Autocar Used Car Test - March 26, 1954
Autocar New Frazer Nash - July 16, 1954
Autosport Account of 1954 Alpine Trial - July 30, 1954
Modern Man (USA) Tailor-Made for the Checkered Flag! Alfred Coppel October 1954
Motor Article Michael Burn March 2, 1955
Autocar Road Test No. 1561 - Frazer Nash Targa Florio Fast Roadster - April 1955
Top Gear Road Test - February 1956
Autocourse The Frazer Nash Continental - February 1957
Autocar Frazer Nash Continental Vee-8 - February 15, 1957
Autosport Account of 3 Seasons Rallying - March 19, 1957
Autocar The Frazer Nash - January 23, 1958
Sports Car & Lotus Owner Owners Report - February 1958
Wheels Isleworth Unchained Doug Blain September 1962
Wheels Isleworth Unchained (Part 1) Doug Blain October 1962
Wheels Enter the Continental (Part 2) Doug Blain November 1962
Wheels Enter the Continental Doug Blain November 1962
Car & Driver (cover) Howling, Yowling, Gnashing Frazer-Nash Bob Greenberg July 1963
Car & Driver (cover) This is a Sports Car! Bob Greenberg July 1963
Cars Illustrated Article

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August 1964
Road & Track Frazer-Nash & the Brothers Aldington Doug Blain January 1965
Sporting Motorist A Contrast in Styles A. Prichard February 1966
Motor Story of the Sebring Frazer Nash - May 9, 1970
Vintage Sports Car Notes on the LeMans Replica - Frazer Nash Days

David Clarke

No. 1, 1973
Classic Car Frazer Nash LeMans Replica - May 1974
Autocar The Frazer Nash Le Mans Replica - October 5, 1974
Sports Car World The Foreign Frazer Nash - January 1975
Thoroughbred & Classic Cars Frazer Nash Le Mans Replica Mk.II - March 1977
Old Motor The End of an Era - May 1981
Old Motor The Bristol Connection - August 1981
Classic & Sports Car Seasoned Nash - June 1982
Thoroughbred & Classic Cars The Post-War Frazer Nash

Neill Bruce

October 1982
Classic & Sports Car Wharton's Whale - March 1984
Sports Car #7 (Sweden) Solofrasering Claes Rydholm 1985
Classic & Sports Car Silverstone or Le Mans - May 1986
Supercar Classics Frolicsome Frump - December 1987
Classic & Sports Car Beau Nash - February 1988
Supercar Classics Three of a Kind - June 1988
Autoweek Postwar Frazer-Nash/Bristol Roger Barlow January 22, 1990
Vintage Motorsport Frazer Nash Le Mans Replica Replica

Geoffrey Bewley

March 30, 1990
Supercar & Classics Panash - May 1991
Sports Car International Le Mans Replica - June 1992
Historic Race & Rally Le Mans Original - September 1992
Thoroughbred & Classic Cars Nash of the Titans

Robert Coucher

October 1994
Historic Racing The Skelly Formula 2 Frazer Nash - February 1995
Sports Car International Serious Collector - Ned Curtis - February 1995
Skinned Knuckles Foreign Affairs: Frazer Nash John Kuerzi May 1995
Classic & Sports Car Bristols at Dawn Simon Taylor August 1996
The Automobile Targa by the Tail

Doug Blain

August 1997
Sports Car World The Undoing of Nash 400/1566 - Oct-Dec 1984
Ferrari O.C. (UK) David Clarke - Summer 1987
On Four Wheels #36 Cycle Cars & Grand Tourers -

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Thoroughbred & Classic Cars Nash Thrill Martin Buckley December 1999
Vintage Racecar Journal All-Rounder (cover photo also) Harold Pace April 2001
Cars for the Connoisseur Forty Four Years with the Le Mans Replica Frazer Nash Martin Morris June 2001
The Automobile Stoop's Sebring Michael Bowler October 2001
New Zealand Classic Car 1952 Frazer Nash Mille Miglia - Restored in New Zealand (cover photo also) Mark Wright September 2009
Classic & Sports Car Two-stroke, one-hit wonder Richard Heseltine August, 2011
Chain Gang Gazette Frazer Nash Archive Day Frazer Nash Car Club December, 2011
Hemmings Sports & Exotic Cars Visionaries: Archie Frazer-Nash Jim Donnelly March, 2013
Bristol Owners Club Bulletin Frazer-Nash Archives Trust, Open Day at Henly Stefan Cembrowicz June, 2013
Chain Gang Gazette Rarely seen Le Mans Replica Mark II comes up for auction in the US Frazer Nash Car Club August, 2013
Chain Gang Gazette No. 161 Raiding New England Andrew Barnett December, 2013
Vintage & Sports Car The Frazer Nash Raid to New England: 2013 December, 2013
Classic & Sports Car Frazer Nash Le Mans Rep Mick Walsh January, 2014
Octane Frazer Nash on Show March, 2014
Vintage Roadcar Journal Fraser-Nash Raid, New England Michael Casey-DiPleco April, 2014
Classic & Sports Car Nash revitalised James Trigwell June, 2014
Vintage Roadcar 1954 Frazer Nash Le Mans Coupe Sean Smith April, 2015
Vintage Racecar Greatest Racecars: Le Mans Replica Frazer-Nash Peter Sutcliffe July, 2015
Sport Car Market 1955 Frazer Nash Le Mans Coupe July, 2015
Classic and Sportscar Classic You Can Buy: Frazer Nash Le Mans Rep Rep August, 2015
Classic and Sportscar The British racing masterpirce with a German heart Mick Walsh August, 2016
Classic and Sportscar Variations on a Theme Simon Taylor June, 2017

Magazines with good or rare photos of the postwar Frazer Nash

Motor - March 22, 1950
Autosport Cover August 10, 1951
Motor - October 24, 1951
Autosport Cover December 21, 1951
Motor - November 7, 1951
Autosport - January 18, 1952
Autosport Cover February 8, 1952
Autosport Cover March 28, 1952
Autocar - November 7, 1952
Motor Sport Cover November 1952
Autocar - March 13, 1953
Motor - April 1, 1953
Motor Sport Cover August 1953
Motor - October 28, 1953
Road & Track - July 1954

Brochures and Owner Technical Guides

The Le Mans Replica Model, the Mille Miglia Model, the "Foursome" Cabriolet Model. Combined brochure, single sheet, two folds, folded size 8 x 6.5; 2 copies, one 1000WP and one 2500WP
The Competition Model Frazer-Nash Single sheet, one fold 7.75” x 6.625”
The Fast Roadster Model Frazer-Nash Single sheet 7.625 x 6.5
The Post-War Frazer-Nash Sports Model Black card cover, 4 page booklet 9 x 6
The Frazer-Nash High Speed and Fast Tourer Models 6 page booklet 6.5 x 9
Frazer Nash Mark 11 Le Mans Replica Competition Model Single sheet, one fold 7.5 x 10
Frazer Nash Targa Florio Gran Sports and Turismo Models Single sheet, one fold 7.5 x 10
Sebring, Targa Florio, LMR Competition, & LeMans Fixed Head Coupe. Reverse side is a LMR at 1954 International Alpine Trial One fold? 7.5 x 10
Basic Specification Detail (one side), "Optional Alternative Equipment" (other side) Two folds? 7.5 x 10 (printed October 1954)
Frazer-Nash, Notes on Tuning and Maintenance 4 sheets, double sided, mimeo typed, 8.25 x 13
Frazer Nash "The following notes are to be read in conjunction with the various Component Manufacturing Handbooks..." 3 pages, single side carbon/mimeo on onion skin, typed, 8.5 x 11
Bristol 2 Litre Engine, Specifications 4 pages, center stapled, printed, 8 x 6.25

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Last revision: October 12, 2020 by Bob Schmitt