This book is designed to support poor readers by giving them overtly adult material but where the language has been calculated using a reading age scale on a computer program. In 1941, during the Second World War Morris cars wanted to prepare products that would be available after the war. So that they could ` hit the ground running'. A young engineer called Alec Issigonis was chosen to develop a new small, advanced car. This was code named `Mosquito' and had to be kept secret from the government. and from the top bosses at the car company. This book tells the story of how Issigonis...

This book is designed to support poor readers by giving them overtly adult material but where the language has been calculated using a reading age scale on a computer program. Read how Adolf Hitler himself wanted a cheap, simple car to be mass produced for the new German road system. Many people are also amazed to find that it was Ferdinand Porsche of Porsche 911 fame who was the lead engineer on the car. In German, ` Volks' means Folk or people and `wagen' means car so the Volkswagen was literally the ` peoples' car'. We will also read how Major Ivan Hirst from the British Army had...