Motoring in Malaysia
MALAYSIA - Handbook of the Automobile Association of Malaya [cover title]. Singapore: Designed by Warin Publicity Services Limited, and printed by Printers Limited. [1939].
Tall 8vo. Original illustrated boards, cloth spine; pp. xiv, 94, [2, ads.]; photographic illustrations, 8 colour-printed maps on 4 leaves, one large colour-printed folding map of the full length of Malaysia, two black and white folding maps; inkstamp “Finance Officer” to fly-leaf, two short repaired marginal tears to initial leave; else very good in original pictorial cloth-backed boards, previous owner’s pencilled name to upper boards, minor wear to extremities.
This extremely rare book offers details of motor tours, a section on the Malayan highway code, a guide to the principal towns, hints on maintenance, and a “Flying Section” extracted from a contemporary publication titled The Malayan Air Pilot. We can locate only a single other copy, in the National Library of Singapore. Established in 1932, by the time of publication the Automobile Association of Malaya boasted 9,000 members, and it is not clear why not more copies survived.
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