Automotive History

By: Andy Thompson . When the Communist Party took control of Russia and neighbouring states in October 1917, it inherited a country with virtually no motor industry. While Britain, Germany, America and France already had factories mass-producing cars,...

By: Maurice A. Kelly . Whilst many books have appeared concerning Russian aircraft, railway locomotives and naval craft, there has been nothing published outside of Russia concerning the activities of its motor industry. Bearing in mind that by 1937 the...

By: Nick Walker . The sports car has always held a warm place in the hearts of British motorists, and even more in the two decades between the wars than now. In those days motoring was still an exciting experience — very exciting for those who had...

By: Anthony Pritchard, Keith Davey . Maserati, Lancia, Ferrari and Alfa Romeo — the leading Italian sports cars and names to conjure with — are the main subject of this book. The history and development of these superbly constructed and...

By: Peter Thorold . In the forty odd years between 1896 - the year the Locomotives on Highways Act came into effect - and the Second World War, Britain was changed for ever by the automobile. This rich, evocative and entertaining book charts that...

By: Malcolm Bobbitt . Following the Armistice the motor industry was rebuilt providing cars for export. New vehicles were largely unavailable for the home market, and fortunate were those people having pre-war cars. Motorists were determined to continue...

By: Colin Peck . In 1920s, 30s and 40s Britain, wooden-bodied shooting brakes, estate cars and station wagons were commercial vehicles used in utilitarian roles. They were built in relatively small numbers, often by small, lesser-known commercial body...

By: L. J. K. Setright . Emphatically not just another book of cars. Some writers have previously studied what the car has done to society, but they have invariably taken a view that has been either geographically too narrow or historically too short...