These three books relate to my training as an automotive engineer in the 1950s, my first overseas job in Africa (working as a service manager for a large Land-Rover and Leyland distributor during the 1960s and my evacuation from Biafra after Federal Nigeria declared war) and my work with British Leyland as an overseas service engineer dealing with the Far East during the 1970s.
Memories of an automotive engineer
Leyland Rover
by Kenneth C Ryeland
Series: Memories of an automotive engineer, Book 3.
Price:
$3.99 USD.
Words: 58,720.
Language:
British English.
Published: March 22, 2018
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Categories:
Nonfiction » Transportation » Automotive / History, Nonfiction » Biography » Autobiographies & Memoirs
Leyland Rover is an account of Ken Ryeland’s tours of the Far East as a service engineer for British Leyland during the early 1970s. His job was to see that Leyland’s Far East distributors conformed to all operational and engineering standards, but the culture and different working practices in the various countries presented many challenges and often frustrated his efforts.
Time Well Spent
by Kenneth C Ryeland
Series: Memories of an automotive engineer, Book 1.
Price:
$3.99 USD.
Words: 31,470.
Language:
English.
Published: March 26, 2016
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Categories:
Nonfiction » Biography » Autobiographies & Memoirs
"Time Well Spent" is a personal account of Ken Ryeland’s training as a motor fitter in Birmingham, where he served his apprenticeship with British Railways (London Midland Region) from 1957 to 1963.
The Up-Country Man
by Kenneth C Ryeland
Series: Memories of an automotive engineer, Book 2.
Price:
$4.99 USD.
Words: 179,860.
Language:
English.
Published: September 8, 2010
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Categories:
Nonfiction » Biography » Autobiographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction » History » Africa » Western region
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In April 1967, a young British Engineer arrives in Nigeria to take up his new job. On being transferred to Enugu, the capital of the troubled Eastern Region, the regional military governor declares secession and the Republic of Biafra is born. The Federal Government immediately declares war and Ken Ryeland finds himself trapped inside the rebel enclave as Federal troops close in for the kill.