DB Tubbs

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Douglas Burnell "Bunny" Tubbs aka DB Tubbs (born March 22, 1913 in London , † November 1999 ) was a British non-fiction author and translator.

Life

Tubbs grew up with acute physical disabilities. He studied for his Bachelor Accounts 1936 at Christ's College in Cambridge at the Harvard University in the United States .

He was passionate about automobiles at an early age , was an early member of the Vintage Sports-Car Club (VSCC) and the Guild of Motoring Writers (GoMW) and wrote for The Motor magazine (later Motor ) for many years . Some of his books, mainly on the subject of automobiles, appeared in several editions, some in other languages.

Tubbs was married and had three children. He died at the age of 86.

Publications

  • Motor - Reference Yearbook 1960. Temple Press, 1960, 224 pp.
  • Vintage Cars in Color. [Photos: James Barron], BT Batsford, 1960, 71 pp.
  • The Rolls-Royce Phantoms . Appeared in the series Hamish Hamilton monographs. H. Hamilton, 1964, 64 pp.
  • with Pierre Dumont and Ronald Barker: Automobiles and Automobiling. Bonanza Books, New York 1965, 204 pp. ISBN 0-517-10752-X
  • Kent pubs. BT Batsford, 1966, 144 pp.
  • The Jowett Javelin and Jupiter. No. 16 of the Profile Publications series , London 1966, 12 p.
  • The Talbots 14/45 - 110 . 27 of the Profile Publications series , London 1966, 12 p.
  • The Austin Seven . No. 39 of the Profile Publications series , London 1966, 12 p.
  • The Lancia Lambda . No. 44 of the Profile Publications series , London 1967, 12 p.
  • The Wolseley Hornet & Hornet Specials . No. 70 of the Profile Publications series , London 1967, 12 p.
  • The 2-liter AC `Six '. No. 92 of the Profile Publications series , London 1967, 12 p.
  • Horseless Carriages. A 19th Century Album of Early Designs. Edita, Lausanne 1968.
  • Ferdinand Porsche. In: Ronald Barker, Anthony Harding: Automobile Design: Great Designers and their Work. R. Bentley, 1970, p. 165 ff.
  • with Pierre Dumont and Ronald Barker: In the Age of Motoring. Viking, New York 1971, 85 pp. ISBN 0-670-39677-X
  • Lancaster bomber. Weapons Book No 30 of Ballantine's Illustrated History of the Violent Century. Ballantine Books, New York 1972, 159 pp. ISBN 0-345-09765-3 , ISBN 0-345-02889-9
  • Zeiss Ikon Cameras 1926–1939. Hove Camera Foto Books, 1977, 144 pp. ISBN 0-852-42604-6
  • Art and the Automobile. Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1978, 144 pp. ISBN 0-448-16425-6

Translations:

  • Piero Taruffi : The Technique of Motor Racing. [Foreword by Juan Manuel Fangio ], Robert Bentley, 1958, 125 pp.
  • Piero Taruffi: Works Driver. The Autobiography of Piero Tartuffi. Temple Press, 1964, 222 pp.
  • Joseph Jobe: Extended Travels in Romantic America. Being a Nineteenth Century Journey through the most Picturesque Portions of North America. Reconstructed From Accounts By European Visitors. Edita, Lausanne, 1966.
  • Jac Remise, Jean Fondin: The Golden Age of Toys. International Book Society / Time-Life Books, 1967, 254 pp. ISBN 0-850-59021-3
  • Christian Moity: The Le Mans 24-Hour Race. 1949-1973. Chilton Book Company, 1974, 210 pp. ISBN 0-801-96290-0
  • Michel Auer: The Illustrated History of the Camera from 1839 to the Present. New York Graphic Society, 1975, 285 pp. ISBN 0-821-20683-4
  • Halwart Schrader : Scupercharged Mercedes. [Drawings: Carlo Demand], Patrick Stephens Ltd, 1979, 93 pp.
  • Daniel Marty: The Illustrated History of Phonographs. Dorset Press, 1989. ISBN 0-880-29388-8

literature

  • Tubbs, Douglas Burnell. In: Two-in-one Special Edition of the International Authors and Writers Who's Who. International Who's Who in Poetry. International Biographical Center, 1982, p. 650 ( limited preview in Google book search)
  • Bunny Tubbs (obituary); In: Classic & Sports Car , Issue 1/2000, Haymarket Specialist Publications Ltd.
  • DB "Bunny" Tubbs (obituary); in: Motor Sport , February 2000 issue, p. 89.

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ^ The Bunny Tubbs Photograph Collection of The Revs Institute. ( Memento of the original from September 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Revs Digital Library, Stanford University . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / revslib.stanford.edu
  2. ↑ Douglas Tubbs at myheritage.de
  3. ↑ His 1972 book about the Avro 683 bomber "Lancaster" was also published in Spanish under the title Bombardeiro Lancaster .
personal data
SURNAME Tubbs, DB
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tubbs, Douglas Burnell (full name); Tubbs, Bunny (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British non-fiction author and translator
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH November 1999