Ford Advanced Vehicle Operations (AVO) developed and built high performance Escorts from 1970 until March 1974. Geoff Jones worked there for most of that time, firstly as an engineer in Quality Control and Process Engineering, then moving to Product Planning working for Mike Moreton and Stuart Turner. As well as the AVO years, this book covers the early years in Liverpool - from school to college and joining Ford as a student apprentice. Before AVO, Geoff worked at Ford Competitions Department and Halewood Assembly Plant as well as spending some years as a motor race marshal. "It Beat...

They came for the coffee and wound up in the Cretaceous. A ticking sound fills the air as Tim MacGregor enters The Daily Edition Cafe, hoping to meet his new girlfriend for coffee. Moments later, a chunk of building is transported 67 million years back in time, along with everyone inside. Ten unlikely companions find themselves in a world of dinosaurs and prehistoric reptiles. Several survivors compete for leadership as they search for a way home, while one member of the group plots to keep them all trapped in the past..."

Since flying its first mail flight on October 1, 1926, Northwest Airways, now known as Northwest Airlines, has grown to become one of the world's leading airlines. Northwest's legacy of leadership in the aviation industry began with its foundation in the Twin Cities and extended to its pioneering work as part of the U.S. war effort in Alaska, the establishment of the first U.S. commercial air links to Japan and the Orient, and its groundbreaking 1992 alliance and award of anti-trust immunity with KLM/Royal Dutch Airlines. Northwest is now America's oldest air carrier with continuous name...