Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

SMC Library: Books: Automotive

From Graces Guide

Note: This is a sub-section of SMC Library: Books

Show Catalogues and Reviews

  • 1905 Automoble Show at Crystal Palace. (Reprint)
  • 1908 The Autocars of 1908. The Autocar.
  • 1929 Show report. by 'The Motor'
  • 1954 Commercial Motor show
  • 1954 Road tests of 1954 Cars. 'The Motor'
  • 1958 Scottish Motor Show Catalogue
  • 1973 Motor Show Official Catalogue
  • 1980 Motor Show Official Catalogue

Car Manufacturers

  • Complete Enc. of Cars 1886-1940. Box
  • Complete Enc. of Cars 1945-1975. Box
  • Armstrong-Siddeley. Bradey
  • Austin 1905-52. Wyatt
  • BMW by Michael Fostick
  • Bugatti-Type 10 to Type 251. Brooklands Book.
  • Bugatti. H. G. Conway
  • Daimler to 1946. Nicon
  • Daimler. Montague
  • The Early History of Motoring by Claude Johnson
  • FIAT by Michael Sedgwick
  • Humber 1868-1932. Demaus & Tarring
  • Jaguar. Lyons &
  • Jaguar. Montague
  • Jaguar. Ponter
  • Land-Rover. Robson
  • Leyland Papers. Turner
  • Leyland Motors - The first 50 years. Leyland
  • Lotus Cortina - Brooklands Road Test Portfolio.
  • Making Cars at Cowley by Bardsley and Laing 2006 / 2009
  • MG Sports Car. McComb
  • MG T Series. Harvey
  • Morris, The Bullnose and Flatnose Morris. Lytton P. Jarman and Robin I Barraclough.
  • MV Agusta - Brooklands Road Test Portfolio.
  • Riley. Styles
  • Richard Stephens and the Clevedon Motor Cars by William Fairney. 2009
  • Rolls Royce – Magic of a name. Pugh (2 Vols)
  • Rolls Royce Motor Car. Bird, Hallows and James
  • Roots Group, The cars of the. Robson
  • Salmson. Draper
  • Singer. Arkinson
  • Triumph Story. Minton

Motorcycle Manufacturers

  • A-Z British Motorcycles. Ayton
  • AJS. Walker
  • Ariel. Walker
  • BSA. Bacon
  • Coventry's Motorcycle Heritage. Damien Kimberley. 2009
  • Harley Davidson. The Ultimate Harley Davidson. Mac McDiarmid.
  • Matchless. Walker
  • Norton. Bacon
  • Scott. Clew
  • Velocette. Walker

Misc

  • 10 Years of Racing. Jarrott
  • 100 Years of the British Automobile Racing Club. Gareth Rogers.
  • A-Z of British Bus Bodies by James Taylor. 2013. ISBN 978 1 84797 5300
  • A-Z British Coachbuilders 1919-1960 by Nick Walker. 1997. ISBN 1 870979 93 1
  • A-Z of Cars of the 1920s by Nick Baldwin. 1994. ISBN 1 870979 53 2
  • Application of Power to Road Transport. H. E. Wimperis. 1913.
  • Automobile Engineer Year Book 1914
  • Automobile Engineer Yearbook. 1920.
  • Badmington Library - Motors
  • Book of the Motor Car. 4 vols. Caxton
  • Brooklands, The History of the Course 1906-40. William Boddy. 1957.
  • Civil Service Year Book 1938
  • Coventry’s Motorcar Heritage by Damien Kimberley ISBN 978 0 7524 5448 1
  • Encyclopedia of British Motorcycles. Roy Bacon.
  • Gang Warily (RSAC)
  • Gordon Bennett Races. Montague
  • Horseless Carriage. Hylter
  • Industrial Electric Vehicles and Trucks. Worby Beaumont
  • Light Car. Caunter
  • Memories of Men and Motor Cars - S.C.H. Davis
  • Motor driving made easy.
  • Motor Racing. Earl Howe+
  • Motor Vehicles. Newton and Steads
  • Motoring Century. RAC. Brendon
  • Musee Automobile de Vendee.
  • Steam Locomotives on Common Roads. Fletcher
  • Story of the SMMT 1902-1952. St. John C. Nixon. 126 pp
  • The Automobile. 3 vols. Hasluck. 1905.
  • The Encyclopedia of the Motorcycle. Peter Henshaw.
  • The Fast Set. Charles Jennings
  • The Life of The Automobile. Steve Parissien.
  • This Motoring. Stenson Cooke
  • Thousand Mile Trial by Elizabeth Bennett. 2000.
  • Veteran and Vintage Cars. Peter Roberts.
  • Vital to the Life of the Nation
  • Who's Who in the Motor Industry. 1953.

The Car Bound Volumes

  • 01. 1902 28th May - 20th Aug (5 - 13)
  • 02. 1902 27th Aug - 19th Nov (14 - 26)
  • 03. 1902 26th Nov - 31st Dec (27 - 32)

Motor Show Catalogues

  • 1952
  • 1953
  • 1954
  • 1955
  • 1956
  • 1957 (x2)
  • 1958 (x2)
  • 1959
  • 1960
  • 1961
  • Missing
  • 1963 (x2)
  • 1964
  • 1965 (x3)
  • 1966 (x2)
  • 1967
  • 1968
  • 1969 (20181112 Index)

Motor Year Book

  • 1949 (1st year of issue)
  • 1950
  • 1951
  • 1952
  • 1953
  • 1954
  • 1955
  • 1956
  • 1957

Motoring Annual and Motorist's Yearbook

  • 1903, Vol I
  • 1904, Vol II

RAC Yearbook

  • 1904 - 1st year of publication
  • 1905
  • 1906
  • 1907
  • 1908
  • 1909
  • 1910
  • 1911
  • 1912
  • 1913
  • 1914
  • 1915
  • 1916
  • 1917 (x2)
  • 1918
  • 1919
  • 1925

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