Transport

All models 1970-2006, Probably best-known for its starring role in the Hollywood movie Top Gun, the variable geometry two-seat carrier-based Grumma...

Vauxhall has been making cars in Britain for longer than anyone else. The name entered the UK industrial lexicon in 1897, when the Vauxhall Iron Wo...

The rich history of the P&O Line began in the 1830s when steam power was still in its infancy, and this, coupled with longer voyages, meant tha...

Mira Slovak was born in Czechoslovakia and endured both the Nazi occupation and the brutal Russian liberation. He joined the Czech Air force, risin...

Lighthouses have always unsettled and attracted in equal measure, highlighting the triumphs and failures in humanity''s battle with the forces of n...

Though personally remembered by very few people, the interwar period was a fascinating time for railway enthusiasts, with the colourful liveries of...

GRIPPING. ... AN HOUR-BY-HOUR ACCOUNT.  WALL STREET JOURNAL    From one of the most decorated pilots in Air Force history comes a masterful account...

Between 1967 and 1997 Keith Spragg progressed from the greenest new co-pilot on a piston-engined Vickers Viking to a fully qualified jet captain. ...

The epic story of the British construction of the railways in India, as told by Britain''''s bestselling transport historian.''''Christian Wolmar i...

When the first BR ''pilot scheme'' main line diesel locomotives appeared in the late 1950s they were generally painted in traditional Brunswick gre...

For more than half a century, a shared love of canals and narrowboats has been inseparable from the marriage of Timothy West and Prunella Scales. T...

The beautifully restored St Pancras Station is a magisterial example of Britains finest Victorian architecture. Like the viaducts at Belah and Crum...

Once an icon of American industry, railroads fell into a long decline beginning around the turn of the twentieth century. Overburdened with regulat...

Tim Moore - indefatigable travelling everyman switches two wheels for four as he journeys across Trumpland in an original Model T Ford.Alarmingly ...

When British Rail decided to electrify the West Coast Main Line north of Crewe towards Scotland, a new class of electric locomotive was needed to w...

This lavishly produced book provides unique photographic insight into the design and engineering of 15 landmark Ferrari road-car engines, documenti...

A pictorial journey along the famous rail route from London to the West of England, well known by thousands of travellers and holidaymakers over th...

Born in the Ukraine, photographer Jack Delano moved to the United States in 1923. After graduating from Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1937, ...

Since the 1970s, London has developed rapidly as a tourist location. A combination of factors have helped to facilitate this - visa-less travel fro...

Fugitives fleeing from slavery in Kentucky, Missouri, and points farther south traversed the entire state of Illinois while moving northward. Bu...

Lexington, a smaller marque that twice won the famous hill climb at Pikes Peak, produced its first car in 1909 in its namesake city of Lexington...

Sir John Franklin's Arctic expedition departed England in 1845 with two Royal Navy bomb vessels, 129 men and three years' worth of provisions. N...

Pioneer aviatrix Jessie Chubbie Miller made a significant contribution to aviation history. The first woman to fly from England to her native Au...

With the outbreak of World War I in August 1914, Kiffin Yates Rockwell, from Asheville, North Carolina, volunteered to fight for France. Initial...

In 1833, the Wilmington and Raleigh Rail Road Company set out to connect the port city of Wilmington to North Carolina's capital. When it was done ...

On 12 October 1972, a Uruguayan Air Force plane carrying members of the 'Old Christians' rugby team (and many of their friends and family members) ...

This work offers a new and comprehensive account of the fastest and most beautiful sailing ships ever built. It explores the quest for speed on the...

From Abbott-Detroit to Zip, this unique reference book documents American gasoline-powered automobiles manufactured for the model years 1906 thr...

The first part of the book tells the story of how the Consumer Products Division of John Deere came to be and how it was accomplished. Then the boo...

This handbook of urban transportation planning presents case studies detailing 40 best practices from 33 states in the U.S. and 19 countries on ...

Shanghaiing, the forcing of a man to sail on a merchant ship against his will, plagued the seafaring world between 1849 and 1915. Those who perpetr...

Eugene Burton Ely was buried the day after his 25th birthday, less than a half-mile from where he was born. No sooner had he captured the world's e...