Transport

This long-awaited book tells the remarkable story of the second Mauretania (1938–65): her construction, her naming, her maiden voyage and her disti...

Spanning four decades, the Reliant Robin was a familiar, if eccentric, fixture on Britain’s roads; an object of amusement to those who didn’t under...

The classic car market is in better shape than ever, remaining buoyant throughout the ups and downs of the motoring industry. Life in the slow lane...

P&O has operated some of the most famous passenger ships of all time, including the Oriana and Canberra, across its long history. Its early lin...

In celebration of the 150th anniversary of St Pancras station, this absorbing new book brings together 150 facts, revealing many little-known detai...

This fascinating volume takes a look at some of the strange and unexplained hauntings reported across Britain's canal and waterways network: echoes...

Rex Conway’s first book, Rex Conway’s Steam Album, was a wonderful miscellany of images that introduced a remarkable archive of railway photographs...

London's Underground is one of the best-known and most distinctive aspects of the city. Since Victorian times, this remarkable feat of engineering ...

The creative and technological genius of the Wright brothers, Wilbur and Orville, led to the first powered and controlled flight. Born in Ohio, USA...

In 1918, during the final year of the First World War, the USN had a force of over 400 sailors and 22 officers and 4 Curtiss H16 seaplanes based in...

Diesel: Ford Transit 2.2L (2198cc) 4-cylinder; Ford Transit 2.4L (2402cc) 4-cylinder. Exclusions:Does not cover petrol engines, or 3.2 litre (3198c...

‘The authors are to be congratulated on a book which merits usage in the national curriculum.’ - International Journal of Nautical ArchaeologyThe r...

The first edition of British Canals was published in 1950 and was much admired as a pioneering work in transport history. Joseph Boughey, with the ...

Today, Heathrow is a major transportation crossroads, with thousands of flights each year conveying millions of passengers to all parts of the glob...

The Kennet and Avon navigation was built to link Bristol and Bath with London, via Reading and the river Thames. The canal section took some 16 yea...

Do you know what’s under your feet? The London Underground was the very first underground railway – but it wasn’t the first time Londoners had vent...