Road and motor vehicles: general interest

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.

Stretching from Lundin Links on the north shore of the Firth of Forth around the coast to the southern shore of the Firth of Tay, North-East Fife is a largely rural area.

David Harvey takes us on a journey on the second longest bus route that was initiated by Birmingham Corporation.

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Teach Yourself - the world's leading learning brand - is relaunched in 2010 as a multi-platform experience that will keep you motivated to achieve your goals.

Uber is one of the most innovative companies of our time.

Live to Ride is pure adrenalinea full-throttle exploration of motorcycles that pushes to the limit, with heart-pounding accounts of riding the greatest bikes of all time, all over the world.

Truthfully and gracefully depicting the clannish, unconventional world of leather fringes and sacred steel, The Biker Code is a perfect gift book for the merely curious, and illuminated scripture for the true disciple.

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

It's the thick of the mid-1990s boom, and David M.

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.

Test your knowledge with the Automotive Questions & Answers trivia book.

It was an enormous gamble.

A celebration of vintage midcentury trailers and the people that love them.