Transport

Post Roads & Iron Horses is the first book to look in detail at the turnpikes, steamboats, canals, railroads, and trolleys (street railroads) t...

It was an age of evolution, when size and speed were almost the ultimate considerations. Bigger was said to be better and ship owners were not exem...

To mark the 60th anniversary season of the Castle Combe circuit this book has been published telling the story of the Wiltshire race track from 195...

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution was established in 1824, and has a long and proud tradition of saving life at sea; nowhere is this more evi...

These days, a nice original Vauxhall Viva costs an arm and a leg, but back in the 1970s, £100 bought you a good little runner, with the rust, bald ...

Despite being a relative newcomer to the preserved railways of Great Britain, the East Lancashire Railway has rapidly grown into a major tourist at...

As early as 1910 Americans recognized that cars were easy to steal and, once stolen, hard to find, especially since cars looked much alike. Model s...

Concorde can surely claim to be the worlds favourite aircraft. Its sleek lines and glamorous design made it an icon recognised all over the world. ...

The Fisher Body Craftsman's Guild was a national auto design competition sponsored by the Fisher Body Division of General Motors. This competiti...

The ATL-98 Carvair is a truly unusual aircraft. Converted from 19 C-54 World War II transport planes and two DC-4 airliners into a small fleet of a...

2014 marks the ninetieth anniversary of Safeguard, which has been in business from the mid-1920s. Laurie James uses archives, memoirs and photograp...

From the mid-1890s a race was on between the merchant navies of the recently unified Germany, Britain and France. That race was to make the most lu...

In the 1950s there were still train services to most parts of the country, and steam was everywhere. Many of the locomotive types used in Scotland ...