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

Humber is now remembered for comfortable, well-made quality cars. They built stately carriages, perhaps lacking in performance, for lower-ranking a...

In this story, stretching over 150 years, Vauxhall progressed from a fine old maker of steamboat engines to build pioneering sporting cars. Then, u...

How did a great British car marque come to be named after the German pioneer of automotive design? Gottlieb Daimler patented his engine design in t...

In the early years of the 20th century many young engineers and inventors were getting started in the nascent motor industry, but few had the advan...

Many dozens of stories of the main British motorcycle manufacturers are in these pages. Not included here are scooters (see Auto Review 04 and 10) ...

The author is not a Yorkshireman, though he has lived in 'God's own County' for many years. He first arrived in Yorkshire in the early 1960s. Many ...

In this book we tell the large story in a small space of the development of 'Fast Boats'. As with other forms of technical evolution, such as cars...

As old as the industry: as modern as the hour was the Riley slogan for many years. The Riley family was indeed there from the early days of the Bri...

The electric vehicle (EV) carries its power source on board, rather than obtaining power from wires or rails. It has come back into fashion: in the...

The story of Triumph is peopled with many larger than life characters including Bettmann, Schulte, Holbrook, Healey, Black, Dick, Stokes, and many ...

To many car enthusiasts the initials MG are synonymous with sports cars. Here we tell the story of the marque from the beginning in 1923 as 'Morris...

The story of Jaguar cars is a fascinating one, thanks to the vision of one man, William Lyons, who began making Swallow sidecars in 1922. He turned...

The story of the arship from the beginning, with Count Zeppelin, to modern days. Anglophone readers may be disappointed to know that neither Britai...

The Land Rover celebrated its 60th anniversary in 2008, when this book was first published. In the same year the marque found a new owner in Tata o...

This book is devoted to the taxicab built for its purpose (ie not just a saloon car with a taxi sign on the roof). This book could not have been pr...

The three-wheeler car is a very British vehicle, mostly thanks to legislative anomalies which made it more accessible to drivers who could not affo...

The story of the trailer caravan is filled with interesting characters, not least Harris Stone, who formed the Caravan Club, which celebrated its c...

The development of holidaying by coach is described here, with many evocative illustrations. Taking a holiday by coach is a relatively recent pheno...

Here we have the story of the Supermarine Spitfire, told amid the excitement of its 70th anniversary in 2006, when this book was first published. W...

The cheeky little Morris Mini-Minor and Austin Se7en created a sensation at their launch in 1959. Here the story of the iconic Mini is told, a trib...

The Royal Automobile Club saw its centenary in 1999, when this book was originally published. Here are the vehicles used by their patrolmen, from t...

AUTO REVIEW AR15 Lone Star Toys By Andrew Ralston

Part Two: from 1948 to 1998. By Ferdinand Kè¤smann The World's Land Speed Record from 1948 to 1998, continuing the story which Ferdinand began in A...