Upon retirement, in the early 1960's Olley wrote a series of monographs totalling over 500 pages. These monographs set forth the foundations of vehicle dynamics as experienced by Olley himself. His mathematics and explanations on oversteer/understeer, steering, ride, suspension design, oscillations of the unsprung masses, overall vehicle dynamics and many other topics are as valid today as when they were first written.

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Bill and Doug Milliken have rearranged Olley's monographs into a single book. Olley's original figures have been retouched and retained. The mathematics has been updated to match today's accepted symbols. Explanatory comments and derivations have been added where it was thought to be helpful. Additional material is contained in the appendices and the book begins with Olley's Reminiscences--the closest Maurice Olley came to writing an autobiography.

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