In 1939, with the world on the brink and Great Britain on the brinkest, spirits were lifted, if only for stolen moments, by a book that gently satirized automobile drivers.How To Be a Motorist was illustrated by W. Heath Robinson, an extremely talented book illustrator primarily remembered today for his Rube Goldberg-esque designs for bizarre machinery and wacky inventions.“This handy, decorative, valuable, and uncostly volume... is dedicated in admiring sympathy to that badgered but unconquerable little creature, the British motorist, or Fate's football. In England nowadays it is practically impossible to be both law abiding and a car owner; try...
