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This is the story of Edgar Wikner Percival and the aircraft company he created. He was an ebullient high achiever with a sometimes abrasive persona...

Donald Healey had an established pedigree as a successful driver and preparer of racing and rally cars before he first produced sports cars under h...

Sandra Mitchell and Dean Reader published A Pictorial History of the British Hearse in 2008 (mostly compiled by Dean), the first book on British he...

In order to explain how the Bristol aircraft firm began to make cars, this book pulls together the stories of a number of iconic characters and com...

This book is mostly the story of William Morris, who embarked on making cars in 1910, having started out, like so many entrepreneurs of the period,...

This book is as much a tribute to Geoffrey de Havilland as it is to his fine aircraft designs. His was a precocious talent; while still a student h...

This publication covers the history of road transport by steam, and describes steam cars made by Stanley, White, Turner & Miesse, Doble and oth...

Here are described British makers of cars with GRP (Glass Reinforced Plastic) bodies, including Ashley, Berkeley, Bond, Clan, Dutton, Fairthorpe, F...

All his life Colin Chapman was fascinated by speed, by cars and by 'making things'. He was also a serial entrepreneur, from his teens to his fiftie...

Every car enthusiast knows about the V8-powered AC Cobra, and most sports car fans are aware that it was derived from the AC Ace, which in turn dev...

The story of Peugeot is a text-book example of how a business can survive if it quickly adapts to new market situations. In the early 19th century ...

The British were not the first European car manufacturers to put big American engines into their cars. In the 1920s and 1930s many Continental car-...

The Sherpa van was a mainstay of commerce on the roads of Britain for decades, and many are still in service into the 21st century. The saga of the...

Paul Nieuwenhuis was born in the Netherlands and studied in Australia, Belgium, Spain and Scotland, where he obtained a PhD from Edinburgh Universi...

In 2011, the centenary of British women pilots was celebrated by the British Women Pilots Association. 29 August 2011 was dubbed Hilda Hewlett Day,...

George Singer and William Hillman were born in the same year, 1847, and their careers took remarkably similar paths. Both of them trained as marine...

The stories of Aston Martin and Lagonda were linked inextricably after both marques were taken over by David Brown, but each had an illustrious car...

After the end of the Great War, the British market was deluged in new makes of motor car. Most of these were just assembly jobs, using bought-in co...

When we see a classic car we call it by the name of the chassis designing company, yet it is the coachbuilt body we see. This book includes the sto...

This car marque combines two great names in British industrial history. Sir William Armstrong (1810-1900) was a Victorian 'self-made man'. He train...

Here we have potted histories of the principal British makers of steam traction engines and motor tractors. Coverage is mostly confined to steam tr...

When the Rootes brothers bought the remains of the collapsed Sunbeam-Talbot-Darracq (STD) combine in 1935, the gem among the purchases was Talbot a...

Frederick Wolseley, Herbert Austin and William Morris all feature in this story, among many other famous figures in British automotive history. Wol...

Frederick Wolseley, Herbert Austin and William Morris all feature in this story, among many other famous figures in British automotive history. Wol...