Transport: general interest

British Railways' Modernisation Plan of the 1950s started, sensibly, with small orders for a variety of diesel locomotives, intended for different purposes, from a range of manufacturers including its own workshops at Swindon and Derby.

Covering the whole history of David Brown tractors from 1939 to the closure of the company in 1988, Jonathan Whitlam describes the models developed at the factory in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, and how they evolved over time.

Panhard & Levassor was a ground-breaking company whose innovations set the standard for modern motoring.

In this readable and engaging book, Peugeot 205 GTI enthusiast and author Matthew Corrigan tells the inside story of one of the most successful cars of the 1980s and 1990s, the Peugeot 205, focusing particularly on the GTI 'hot hatch' versions.

The quarter-century after the Rainhill Trials was an exciting period of growth and experimentation on the railways.

Manchester was Britain's first railway city.

Cheltenham Caravans were made by one of the smallest caravan manufacturing companies, but nevertheless are still used across Europe by members of the longest established one-marque caravan owners' clubs, forty years after the company ceased to exist.

The Bristol Lodekka derived from a prototype of 1949.

The Pool of London has long been a busy place.

Being situated in the centre of the UK, the West Midlands have always been the hub of the railway network.

The Chevrolet Corvette was first revealed to an amazed American public in 1953.

Duncan Menzies flew with the RAF, the Aeroplane and Armament Evaluation Establishment, and Fairey Aviation in a twenty-five-year flying career, seeing the world of flying change from open cockpits and few rules to the jet age, with its complexities and crowded skies.

Dumfries and Galloway - the historic counties of Dumfriesshire, the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright and Wigtownshire - is a largely rural area of south-west Scotland.

Birmingham Airport has a history stretching back to the Second World War, when it was requisitioned for use by the military.

Many audacious and improbable schemes for new railways were dreamed up in the nineteenth century, but surely none matched the plan to link the Cromford Canal with the Peak Forest Canal at Whaley Bridge in Derbyshire using a series of rope-worked inclines.

The Bristol Channel has an incredibly rich maritime history, reaching back to when men first went to sea in ships powered by the wind.

Portsmouth Dockyard has a long and distinguished history.

The Woodhead Route from Manchester to Sheffield has achieved almost mythical status, not only thanks to the Woodhead Tunnels, but also because of the unique EM1 and EM2 electric locomotives.

Basingstoke and Salisbury are important rail centres on what was originally the London & South Western Railway, and later the Southern Railway and finally the South Western Section of the Southern Region.

Manchester Airport (EGCC) is a Category 10 international passenger airport located in Lancashire, UK, comprising three passenger terminals and a world freight terminal.

The East Midlands is rich in railway history and heritage.

Steam's final fling was almost over.

Andrew Mead offers a pictorial history of the Grey-Green company, who operated vehicles from the First World War until 2000.

This book gives a detailed account of the Zeppelin raids on Bolton and Rossendale in late September 1916, setting them in the context of wider events at home and abroad.

The Midland & South Western Junction Railway was formed in 1884 by amalgamation of the Swindon, Marlborough & Andover and the Swindon & Cheltenham Extension railways.

The British & Colonial Aeroplane Company was established in 1910 at Filton on a site that is now an Airbus design and engineering centre.

The construction of the Merthyr, Tredegar & Abergavenny Railway was a remarkable engineering achievement.

Although Daimler is one of the most famous names in motoring, very few books have covered the models produced between the end of the Second World War and the takeover by Jaguar in 1960.

The de Havilland DH 98 Mosquito was one of the fastest and most versatile aircraft of the Second World War.

Packed with rare and unpublished images, Sussex Steam takes the reader on a journey around picturesque Sussex and the steam trains that used to call it home.

Before Southdown became part of the National Bus Company, it was a well respected organisation.

AEC Lorries explores the story of lorry use in the last fifty years, showing the diverse use of the vehicles and their configurations for many different types of work, with a focus on one of the great British manufacturers - AEC.

Strathclyde Traction covers the former Strathclyde Region Council area of the west of Scotland, stretching from the southern end of the Western Highlands to the Southern Uplands, which was formed by merging the city of Glasgow with the counties of Ayr, Bute, Dumbarton, Lanark, Renfrew, Stirling and parts of Argyll.

Leith has been Edinburgh's main port since the Middle Ages.

Tyneside is widely acknowledged as the birthplace of the railway.

The Class 58s were introduced in 1983, and were a significant departure from normal build standards.

This class of AC electric locomotive comprised 100 members, built from 1965 onwards.

Steam Nostalgia in the North of England is a pictorial story of British railways in the north of England, in those heady days when steam ruled the rails.

The North Yorkshire Moors Railway is Britain's most popular heritage railway, and runs for 18 miles through the national park of the same name.

All too often, when observing our railways, focus falls entirely on the locomotives or multiple units that haul the many services that travel on them.

Coaches have long been a part of life in Britain, from the days of eighteenth-century stage coaches galloping along muddied tracks to air-conditioned fleets cruising the motorways of the modern day.

Essex has long been full of interest for followers of Britain's bus industry.

The Class 56 heavy freight locos were first introduced in the late 1970s.

Thirty Class 67 locomotives were ordered by EWS for use on parcels traffic to help replace the Class 47s that they had inherited.

It's a journey through historical and social events that have shaped a county and made a significant impact locally, nationally and, in some instances, internationally.

This book illustrates the history of modern diesel and electric traction in Hampshire over recent decades.

Travelling fairs hold a special place in English history and traditions.

When the King's Flight was officially formed in 1936, passenger flying was very much in its infancy.

The National Bus Company was the creation of the 1968 Transport Act, which merged the bus operations of the Tilling Group and the British Electric Traction Company.

This is a pictorial tribute to the Class 20 locomotive.