Road and motor vehicles: general interest

John Law has been visiting Oxfordshire and photographing the county's buses and coaches since 1973.

Western SMT was formed in 1932, when the Scottish General Transport Company (which operated buses in Renfrewshire and Ayrshire) merged with Midland Bus Services, which operated from the south-west of Glasgow as far as Ayr, Stranraer and Dumfries.

In this comprehensive book, the author charts the development and production of one of the most famous fire engine manufacturers in the world.

In the 1960s, Japanese motorcycle manufacturers were eating into the markets in Europe and the United States with genuinely new designs and modern technology.

In 1928, Edinburgh Corporation Transport was formed as the corporation increasingly began to run buses as well as trams in the city.

This comprehensive book provides the full background and history of the groundbreaking Kawasaki Z1.

Coventry's buses had first entered service in 1914, supplementing the tram network.

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

David Devoy was first introduced to many of the independent Lanarkshire bus fleets back in the 1960s when he saw many of them on football hires to Glasgow, and on a school trip to visit a railway signal box in Motherwell which produced a street full of Hutchison's blue AEC service buses.

Long before Stagecoach, Arriva or First Bus, Ayrshire Independents fought it out with Western SMT on the local and long-distance routes within the county.

The first trams to be operated in West Bromwich belonged to the South Staffordshire Tramways Company, which began operating double-deck steam trams from Handsworth to Wednesbury in 1883, eventually extending the route to Dudley.

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.

Based in Renfrewshire, Clydeside Scottish was a member of the Scottish Bus Group and was created from the northern part of Western SMT's area.

Lavington & Devizes Motor Services (L&DMS) was not a typical West Country rural independent bus operator.

This is the story of Walsall's trolleybus system, from its opening in 1931 through to its eventual closure in October 1970.

The Dundee & District Tramways Company began operating a service using a horse tram on 30 August 1877.

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

The West Bromwich Corporation Act of 1913 gave the Corporation the powers to operate motor buses, the first of which were four Albion single-deckers that lasted for less than seven weeks before the chassis were commandeered for war work in October 1914.

Walter Alexander first began running a motor bus service from Falkirk to Grangemouth in 1913 and services have continued in the area ever since, under the auspices of Scottish Motor Traction, Walter Alexander & Co.

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.

This is the story of Belfast's trolleybus system, told through an eclectic collection of over 200 photographs, from its opening in 1938 to its closure in 1968.

This book records the vehicles and services operated by Maidstone Borough Council from its creation with the local government reorganisation in 1974, through coordination with Maidstone & District in 1981, to the rapid growth following bus deregulation in 1986 and to its demise in 1992.

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 advent of the charabanc to the working classes - especially those slaving in the cotton mills in the North - seemed to evoke a special kind of freedom that not many had ever experienced before.

The Indian Scout motorcycle is the favoured mount for Wall of Death riders all over the world.

In this pictorial journey, Barry Marsden takes us through the history of trams and trolleybuses in Chesterfield, from the inauguration of a horse tram service by the Chesterfield and District Tramways Company in the 1880s to the last run by the Chesterfield Corporation trolleybuses in 1938.

Wessex Coaches of Bristol was certainly a company with two faces.

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.

Maidstone Corporation fi rst began operating trams on 14 July 1904, in conjunction with the municipal electricity supply.

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.

Fife Scottish was established in the 1960s as part of the Scottish Bus Group, a state-owned company which operated bus services throughout Scotland.

In the 1960s, many of the bus services in Scotland's Western Isles, from Lewis and Harris in the north down to Islay in the south, were operated by MacBrayne's, the company which also operated the ferry services between the islands and the mainland.

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.

The Bristol Omnibus Company can trace its origins to 1875, when Sir George White formed the Bristol Tramways Company.

The Birmingham & Midland Motor Omnibus Company began to operate motor buses in the Birmingham and Black Country area in 1912, radiating their services out as far as Leicester.

Kirkcaldy Corporation Tramways began to operate an electric tram service in Kirkcaldy in 1903, connecting with the Wemyss and District Tramways Company service to Leven, further up the Fife coast, which began in 1906.

HCB Angus produced 6,500 fire engines for fire services from across the UK and all over the world at their Southampton factory.

Living in a 1966 Albion Chieftain lorry, converted to a home, Traveller Dave has spent much of the past two decades in Europe, working on farms and travelling around, all the time taking photographs of the other interesting traveller homes he has seen.

From 1929 until 1979, a succession of buses and trucks trundled out of the AEC works in Southall, Middlesex.

The British bus industry was ill-prepared for the Second World War.

2014 marks the ninetieth anniversary of Safeguard, which has been in business from the mid-1920s.

HCB-ANGUS produced some 6,500 fire engines in their factory at Totton, Southampton, for fire services all around the world, and for many UK Brigades.

How many of us grew up saying they wanted to be a bus driver?

The Leeds Tramways Company was authorised to construct tramway lines in Leeds in 1871 under the Leeds Tramways Order, with the first route opening on 16 September of that year and running from Boar Lane to the Oak Inn at Headingley.

Highland Omnibuses was founded in 1952 as part of the state-owned Scottish Bus Group that operated services throughout Scotland.

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