Motor cars: general interest

A rare and fascinating window into the early days of motoring, first published in 1909, this early technical book of advice covers everything the motorist could possibly need to know.

The first generation of Sunbeam Alpine was produced in 1953-54 and was named after the prestigious Alpine Rally which ran through the mountains of France and Italy.

The Standard Motor Company grew to be one of the biggest companies in Coventry and employed some 11,000 people at its height.

Infinitely flexible, they have appeared in short, medium and long wheelbase variants, with a host of body styles and conversions for everything from sixwheeled fire engines to motor homes.

Worcestershire can proudly boast that it is the home of the British motor industry.

With the liberal use of many previously unpublished photographs contrasting past and present, Silverstone Circuit Through Time shows how a wartime airfield developed, stage by stage, into the country's premier motor racing circuit, the annual home of Formula One's spectacular British Grand Prix.

The collection of images in this book portray the presence of Rolls-Royce in Crewe from the heady days just prior to the Second World War.

From humble beginnings as a 1970s motoring show, Top Gear has gone on to achieve diesel-powered world domination.

In the years immediately following the First World War, motoring and the motor car came to play an increasingly important part in everyday social life; at the same time, the automobile itself embarked upon a period of great technical improvement.

The very first issue of the - still current - magazine, The Autocar was on 2 November 1895.

Intended for the British Army as a contract for a small, Jeep-like, air-portable vehicle, the Mini Moke was a failure at this role and found its success as a fun, sunshine toy, equally at home on the beach as in the mountains.

In 1948, on the Isle of Anglesey, the first prototype Land Rover was put through its paces.

In 1906, brothers Benjamin and William Jowett designed and built their first car.

It was madness: Grand Prix drivers racing flat out from opposite ends of two long runways, only to turn away from each other at the last moment at corners improvised with hay bales.

Based in Idle, near Bradford, the Jowett car was the result of two brothers' engineering skills.

The book is impressive and practical, developed by a publishing company in Indiana.

You may have just been in a car accident and you are not feeling like yourself.

Created in 1950, the Formula One World Championship is the pinnacle of auto racing.

It was an enormous gamble.

Buckle up as Douglas Keister takes you for a decidedly retro ride in the world of diminutive travel trailers in Teardrops and Tiny Trailers.

From flying cars to amphibious vehicles, solar-powered saloons to rockets on wheels, these are over 50 of the most wacky cars ever devised.

Did you know that Jasons and Tracies crash more cars than Jacquelines and Damons?

Following up on Crap Cars and My Dad Had One of Those, Top Gear celebrates the midlife crisis with the definitive collection of the flashest, fastest, most impractical cars ever to be found in the driveways of otherwise perfectly sensible men.

Visit any VW show and what do you find?

The hilarious new collection of stories and observations from Jeremy Clarkson - setting our off-kilter world to rights with thigh-slapping wit once again.

JEREMY CLARKSON'S LATEST - AND MOST OUTRAGEOUS - TAKE ON THE WORLDCLARKSON'S BACK - AND THIS TIME HE'S PUTTING HIS FOOT DOWNFrom his first job as a travelling sales rep selling Paddington Bears to his latest wheeze as a gentleman farmer, Jeremy Clarkson's love of cars has just about kept him out of trouble.

Clarkson is back with a brand new book of hilarious stories and observations about our gone-wrong world.

Why does a man with a Ferrari and a Porsche drive a Fiat Panda?

Introduced in 1989, the Dennis Dart became one of the most successful midibuses in the UK.

Introduced in 1989, the Dennis Dart became one of the most successful midibuses in the UK.

Although there had been experiments with the use of a new form of transport - the 'trackless tram' (better known as the trolleybus) - during the first decade of the 20th century, it was in June 1911 that Bradford and Leeds became the country's pioneering operators of trolleybuses.

Although there had been experiments with the use of a new form of transport - the 'trackless tram' (better known as the trolleybus) - during the first decade of the 20th century, it was in June 1911 that Bradford and Leeds became the country's pioneering operators of trolleybuses.

Over the years many weird and wonderful types of transport have come and gone, some of which succeeded against all odds, others that spectacularly failed, and some that never got beyond a designer's drawing board.

When the Range Rover was launched in 1970 it immediately drew attention.

Launched in 1961 as Renault's answer to the Citroen 2CV, the Renault 4 went on to become one of the most successful French cars ever made.

The North East has been a hotbed of motorsport since the early years of the last century.

Inspired by the sight of RAF Lightning fighter interceptors climbing vertically into the sky at 50,000 feet per minute and by other British engineering and design achievements, Richard Noble, determined to put Britain back in the lead during the resurgence of national confidence of the 1980s, wanted Britain to regain the world land speed record.

Launched in 2001, the second generation Mini, produced by BMW, was an instant success.

Launched in 1977, the V8 front-engine Porsche 928 Grand Tourer received widespread praise as an engineering masterpiece and won the European Car of the Year award in 1978.

In this book, MG Y Type owner and expert Neil Cairns provides the reader with a detailed history of the development of the MG Y as well as descriptions of the different models - the YA, the YT and the YB.

For fans all over the world the thrilling partnership of Silverstone and Formula 1 has long represented one of the pinnacles of motor sport.

Once upon a time it was easy to tell one make of car from another.

From its launch on 20 September 1961 the Mini Cooper caused a sensation.

This comprehensive and readable book covers the Rover models built on the R8 platform, including the Rover 200 and 400.

The MG Z cars were produced at a pivotal time when the MG Rover Group separated from their previous owners BMW and stood alone in the highly competitive mass car market.

Launched in 1980 as the Austin Mini-Metro, the Metro was a critically important car for British Leyland and was hailed as the car that saved the company.

Mit Papas Benz bis nach Marokko: Helge Timmerberg träumt von der großen Reise über Land, seit ihm sein Vater vor zehn Jahren seinen Wagen vermacht hat, verbunden mit den letzten Worten »Bon Voyage«.

Whether you're an aspiring automotive professional, preparing for ASE certification, or already working in the field, TODAY'S TECHNICIAN: AUTOMOTIVE ELECTRICITY & ELECTRONICS, Seventh Edition, will equip you to confidently understand, diagnose, and repair electrical and electronic systems in today's automobiles.

Delivering complete coverage of ASE Education Foundation's Maintenance & Light Repair (MLR) program standards, this accessible, practical resource features material spanning the entire MLR task list, as well as many supplemental tasks entry-level technicians need to master.