Transport

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...

As the Civil War ended, thousands of Union veterans imagined Kansas as a place to make a new beginning. Many veterans settled in the southeaster...

In January 1, 1885, Wells, Fargo & Company's chief detective James B. Hume and special agent John N. Thacker published a report summarizing the...

When the final list for the Car of the Century competition was announced in November 1999, only one company had three finalists: Automobiles Cit...

This book describes the intricacies of the construction and fabrication more than 150 years ago of masts and yards installed in American merchan...

Since their introduction in 1964, American muscle cars have been closely associated with masculinity. In the 21st century, women have been a gro...

For over 60 years, no other car has moved the lovers of classic cars more than the 300 SL. For Daimler Benz AG, this car is an icon that with the m...

The growth of the ocean liner was driven not only by political and social changes, and developments in marine technology and design but also by inc...

After having digested all the technical information supplied by the concessionaires of the period, and having created thousands of illustrations sh...

Following the monograph devoted to the Lui, this latest volume focuses on another iconic Lambretta the TV-LI Series I. In the history of the Lambre...

As with previous years, 2015 was one in which Mercedes-Benz dominated both the drivers' and constructors- championships. The German manufacturer co...