Road and motor vehicles: general interest

Verkehrssünden und Ordnungswidrigkeiten im Straßenverkehr können richtig teuer werden.

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.

Since deregulation Merseyside has seen its fair share of independent bus operators come and go.

Stagecoach South Wales is a subsidiary of the Stagecoach Group and was formed through the acquisitions and consolidation of Aberdare Bus Company Limited, Crosskeys Coach Hire Limited (Glynn Williams), Islwyn Borough Transport Limited, Parfitts Motor Services Limited, Red & White Services Limited, Rhondda Bus Services Limited and The Valleys Bus Company Limited.

Since the 1990s a huge variety of emergency vehicles have been seen in the Thames Valley area - Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, and Oxfordshire.

Ferrari have the distinction of being the only manufacturer to have competed throughout the history of Formula 1.

Police vehicles have always been an essential part of protecting law and order in the United Kingdom.

For many people the halcyon days of Potteries Motor Traction was the decade between the management buyout of the company from the National Bus Company in 1986 until the merger of Badgerline and GRT to form First Bus in 1997.

At a time when interest in Grand Prix racing has never been greater in the United States, this book looks back at the heyday, when American drivers often dominated the grid.

The 2000s saw the end of a significant number of haulage and vehicle-manufacturing companies as well as a series of company takeovers.

Reliant have long been famous for their three-wheeled cars.

The Ford Fiesta has been one of the most successful superminis and one of Britain's most popular cars for decades.

When double-deck motorbuses were first introduced they were all open-top, like the horse buses that preceded them.

A critical examination of London Transport's ill-fated MB and SM buses, which failed to meet expectations and ended an era.

Explore London Transport's transformation from monopoly in 1933 to decentralized bus services, reflecting regional changes in Greater London and beyond.

More than 6,000 shipwrecks have been recorded on the Great Lakes, but only one offers a true-life adventure like the 1926 rescue of the City of Bangor off the Keweenaw Peninsula in upper Michigan.

Although Coventry Corporation had been running a tram service since the 1880s, the Corporation's first bus services did not come into operation until 1914.

Be prepared for exam day with Barron's.

When people think of NASCAR, many think of cars racing around a track.

Since the moment that young men began modifying and personalizing their automobiles back in the 1940s and 50s, Big Daddy Don Garlits was squarely in the thick of this intoxicating pursuit.

The Race: Inside the Indy 500 examines in words and pictures this highly evolved auto-racing spectacle, which is hosting the 100th running in 2016.

Shirley Muldowney not only broke the gender barrier in the National Hot Rod Association in the 1970s, but she also completely rewrote the record books in Top Fuel Eliminator, drag racings quickest and fastest category.

Whats it like to race across the blacktop of the nations most famous track?

In Flat Out and Half Turned Over, driving phenomenon Buddy Baker details the most hilarious collection of racing stories, memories, and anecdotes ever published.

Donnie Allison was always the other brother of the famous NASCAR racing duo.