Road and motor vehicles: general interest

Wolmar's entertaining polemic sets out the many technical, legal and moral problems that obstruct the path to a driverless future, and debunks many of the myths around that future's purported benefits.

Wolmar's entertaining polemic sets out the many technical, legal and moral problems that obstruct the path to a driverless future, and debunks many of the myths around that future's purported benefits.

A visual celebration of Lotus iconic road cars from the first Lotus VI to the Evora supercarThis compact and richly illustrated book is part of the popular A Pictorial Historyseries and charts the full journey of Lotus road cars from 1952 through to 2024.

Discovering the Discovery: The Story Behind Land Rovers Game-ChangerSince its debut in 1989, the first generation Land Rover Discovery has become a beloved icon with a devoted global following.

This book charts the origins, design and development of the most iconic British supercar of the 1970s and 1980s - the Aston Martin V8.

More than a dozen years after the last cars rolled off the production lines in Trollhttan, Saab still commands a keen following among car enthusiasts around the world.

The military Austin Ten, also known as the Austin Ten 'Tilly' Light Utility Truck, accompanied British forces during the evacuation of Northern France in 1940 to D-Day and from Northern Europe to North Africa during the Second World War.

In this series, Richard Stubbings traces the changing, ever-evolving nature of bus scenes around south-west and south-east England.

Formed from the renaming of Midland Red East in January 1984, Midland Fox was one of the first to do away with National Bus Company (NBC) corporate red livery, opting instead for a bright-yellow-and-red scheme.

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In this absorbing and informative book, Volvo Owners' Club director Andrew Anderson draws together a selection of articles describing all the Volvo models produced since the 1920s to create a complete history of this famous marque.

Drawing on a wide variety of historical and media sources, this book tells the story of London's transport during an unexplored era in a novel way.

When it was launched at the Geneva Motor show in 1961, the Jaguar E-Type caused a sensation.

The earliest tramcars were horse-drawn and originated during the Victorian era, a large portion of them eventually being replaced with electric vehicles (which themselves were phased out or replaced by trolleybuses).

While there are thousands of preserved commercial vehicles, there can be few that evoke such public excitement as fire-fighting vehicles.

Here is the full and rarely-told story of Toyota's recent and highly-successful World Rally Championship campaign, undertaken by its motorsport subsidiary, Gazoo Racing.

Skoda Octavia: The Story of a Czechoslovakian Automotive IconThis book offers a fascinating look into the history of Czechoslovakian car design, focusing on the Skoda Octaviaa rare Eastern European car that rivalled its Western European contemporaries, such as the Ford Anglia and Triumph Herald.

Verkehrssünden und Ordnungswidrigkeiten im Straßenverkehr können richtig teuer werden.

Mercedes G-Klasse: Warten, Reparieren und Optimieren leicht gemacht Dieses umfangreiche Handbuch erläutert in ausführlich beschriebenen und bebilderten Schritt für Schritt Anleitungen alle wichtigen Reparatur- und Instandhaltungsarbeiten an einem der beliebtesten Fahrzeuge der Offroad Szene.

"So wird´s gemacht" zeigt technisch interessierten Neu- und Gebrauchtwagenbesitzern, wie ihr Fahrzeug funktioniert und welche Wartungs- und Reparaturarbeiten sie selbst durchführen können.

Through the years, the challenge of powered transportation in the snow has been met with ideas from explorers, creative inventors and small companies, all with new ideas - often unique and sometimes successful.

The last of a line of illustrious 1970s Carreras to evolve from the revered 1973 RS model, the Carrera 3.

The principal bus operator on the Isle of Wight is Southern Vectis, the name a nod to the Romans who once inhabited the island.

Essex held great fascination for bus enthusiasts in the 1960s and early 1970s.

The Leyland Atlantean was in production from 1958 until 1986 and around 15,300 buses of the type were built over this period.

The first trams ran in Bournemouth in 1902 but the efforts to introduce trams into the Bournemouth and Poole area began in the 1880s.

Designed to provide a greater load capacity within the successful Land Rover range, the Forward Control models were also adapted for a variety of other uses, including for the emergency services and the military.

While bus services in Britain have generally been in decline since the heady days of the early 1950s, there has been one area of bus operation that has seen significant growth.

The nineteenth-century craze for building pleasure piers around the coast of Britain has left a legacy of seaside fun unmatched around the world.

The Rover P5 and P5B were the flagship Rover models throughout the 1960s and early 1970s.

Traffic congestion has become a major problem in many of England's towns and cities.

Launched in 1960 with design by Pininfarina, the Peugeot 404 proved to be a highly successful model that helped to enhance Peugeot's reputation for building durable cars.

The period 2010-2019 was one of change and colour in Reading's bus services.

Few people would have envisaged that when the fledgling D&G Bus commenced operations in April 1998 with four vehicles that twenty-five years later it would become larger than its neighbour, First Potteries.

The Triumph Razoredge cars were the last of the traditionally styled British coach-built cars to be produced in the post-war period.

Over the past hundred years, the scrapping of life-expired buses has changed in numerous ways.

The Crosville bus company started bus operations in Liverpool in 1922 and by the end of the decade was the leading operator across the Wirral and into Lancashire, Cheshire and North Wales.