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Acton, acton! Or maybe Tally Ho, Tally Ho. Welcome to We Have Ways It Make You Talk with

me, Al Murray and James Holland. And we are delighted to be joined by a very special guest

who has produced a book that is nothing short of phenomenal on his chosen subject. I mean,

if I guess ever went on mastermind with his chosen subject, I think you'd wipe the floor.

Max points. Max points. Max points. It's quite extraordinary this book. So who are we

talking to today, James? Well, we're talking to a highly qualified

aerospace welder, a mechanical engineer, an engine design consultant and the author of

the secret horse power race. We're talking to Kalam Douglas and Kalam your book is absolutely

astonishing.

I mean, the level of detail, the research that's gone into this, I challenge anyone to

quibble with anything that you've said in this because you're clearly the numero uno on

this subject. I think there's a lot of quibble room on some of the influences and the weight

either attributed to some things, but I pretty much got about three original letters for every

single fact in there. As a few unfortunate, it's on various forums have discovered. So,

yes, there's nothing more enjoyable than squashing someone on a forum. Well, I usually try

not to, but sometimes they ask for it. Yeah, of course. So to the uninitiated, the

secret horse power race, Western Front Fighter Engine development, it's a mighty tone packed

with original, with primary sources, with original diagrams, literally with blueprints reproduced

in blue. It's the most extraordinary book, but the story of the development of the piston

engine in the Second World War, is it a linear tailor? Is it a thing with leaps and bounds

and jumps and starts? Because I think our listeners will be familiar with the problems

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