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By: Graham Robson . Born in 1952, the Austin-Healey 100 soon took the UK and US markets by storm. A beautiful, brutish car, it was what many sporting motorists had been waiting for, and at a...

Author: James Taylor, Softbound, 64 Pages, ISBN:9781784420642, First Published, 2016 BRITISH LUXURY CARS OF THE 1950s AND '60s To the aspiring motorist of the 1950s and '60s — to...

By: Mick Walker . Description After VE Day in 1945 the British population returned enthusiastically to the road, but the cost and scarcity of both vehicles and fuel led to the post-war scene being...

By: Nicholas H Lancaster . Before the Second World War, Brooklands was the most famous motor racing venue in the world, attracting large and glamorous crowds to its banked circuit to watch races...

By: James Taylor . In the aftermath of the Second World War, the long-established Rover company of Solihull was fighting to survive. It needed a vehicle that would give it an advantage over its...

Author: Nick Baldwin, Softbound, 56 Pages, ISBN: 9780747807551, 1st Edition, 2010 - Shire Library Series In 1910 it was not clear whether steam, electric or petrol commercial vehicles would replace...

By: Ray Newell . The Morris Minor, designed by Alec Issigonis and introduced in 1948, is one of Britain's most famous and long-lived cars. Over sixty years on it still attracts interest from new...

By: Michael Webster . Motor scooters are commonly associated with just two manufacturers: Innocenti, who made the Lambretta, and Piaggio, who produced the Vespa. From the early 1950s these firms...

Author: Richard Gibbon, Softbound, 56 Pages, ISBN: 9780747808039, 1st Edition, 2010 - Shire Library Series George and Robert Stephenson's Rocket is perhaps the most famous locomotive in railway...

Author: Nick Georgano, Softbound, 32 Pages, ISBN: 9780747801924, First Edition, 1993  **RARE BOOK IN EXCELLENT CONDITION** Bentley has always been one of the most evocative names among...

By: Llyn E Morris . Description The world of motoring remembers its industrialists, engineers and designers, and celebrates those pioneer motorists who publicised and popularised the car and its...

Author: Graham Robsonm Softbound, 32 Pages, ISBN: 9780747805199 - Reprinted in 2012 When launched in 1962, the Ford Cortina was an entirely new type of British car. Compared with its rivals...