Austerity Motoring - From Armistice to the mid-Fifties - Those Were The Days...

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 driving despite petrol rationing and raw material shortages, thus leading them to adopt some unique innovations.

Features

• Packed with around 150 wonderfully evocative photos of motoring in immediate postwar Britain.
• Chronicles the era of pool petrol, cars of the period and the inventiveness of motorists starved of new cars.

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