The somewhat different collector - Nick Georgano
Some readers are certainly familiar with his name, but his books are even better known than he is. They are called "The Beaulieu Encyclopaedia of the Automobile", for example, and comprise around 2000 pages.
This standard work in particular, the automobile encyclopaedia, became so thick that it had to be divided into three volumes, the first two of which deal with all known car brands, while the third volume is dedicated to coachbuilders. Georgano probably collected more missing car brands than anyone else. The only tools he had at his disposal at the time were a typewriter and card index boxes - after all, there were no handy computers or the Internet back then.
Nick Georgano was born in London and edited his first catalog, which was about trucks, at the age of seven. At the age of 16, he wanted to write his first encyclopedia. However, he first completed his studies at Oxford and then began researching and collecting in his spare time. He revised "The Worlds' Automobiles" with Ralph Doyle as an apprentice, so to speak. After Doyle's death, he published the first complete encyclopedia of the automobile in 1968. He gave up his job as a teacher and focused on writing more books and collected editions, over 30 in all. The best known have titles such as "The Art of the American Automobile" or "The Encylopaedia of Motor Sport". He received many awards for his work, including the "Montagu Trophy of the Guild of Motoring Writers".
He also liked to take a lot of photographs. And he published in well-known motoring magazines, including the Spanish "autodromo".
He died in October 2017 at the age of 85. His legacy is rich, but his death probably meant the loss of an immeasurable wealth of knowledge.
