UK Lorries 50s Wynn Pickford Antar Albion ERF New Book

This book is a highly visual study of British lorries built during the 1950s, and contains 120 colour and black and white images, many contemporary. The photographic content extends to publicity material as well as the preservation scene depicting historic vehicles at work. All the familiar, and less familiar, names are evident, and the comprehensive text reveals much about Britain's commercial vehicle and road haulage industries, along with those marques that were household names.

Features:
• A nostalgic study of British lorries of the 1950s
• Summons the great names of the 'Kings of the road'
• Previously unseen images
• Well researched history
• Text and photographs reveal little known information about the vehicles
• Comprehensive captions provide an insight into Britain's commercial vehicle industry
• 120 photographs, many of which are contemporary
• Easily accessible format
• Subjects range from delivery lorries to heavy haulage
• Comprehensive index

British commercial vehicle manufacturers played a key role in bolstering Britain's economy throughout the 1950s, especially during the period of postwar austerity, a time when they contributed to the all-important export drive. British lorries were, therefore, seen as the workhorses of the world and performed a wide range of tasks from goods delivery to heavy haulage. This highly visual study of British lorries of the 1950s captures, in 120 illustrations, the vital but often understated duties that were reliably conducted 365 days a year. The images, contemporary black and white as well as colour, include evocative publicity material in addition to pictures from the preservation and heritage scene. The comprehensive text reveals much about the marques that were household names, along with information about Britain's road haulage and commercial motor industries.

Malcolm Bobbitt, member of the Society of Automotive Historians and the Guild of Motoring Writers, is the author of some thirty books. In this instance he has combined a collection of fascinating images with informative text to provide a nostalgic and unique insight into British lorries of the 1950s.

Chas Parker spent many years visiting the track, and amassed an impressive collection of thousands of colour transparencies, the majority of which are previously unpublished. This book picks up where his previous volume, Motor Racing at Brands Hatch in the Seventies, left off. It offers a very personal account of visits to the world’s busiest motor racing circuit during a decade of excitement and change, both on and off track, in the form of a scrapbook using the author’s own photographs, taken as an ordinary spectator from the public enclosures.

• Introduction and acknowledgements
• Postwar austerity
• Delivering on time
• Workhorses of the world
• Heavy haulage
• Behind the scene

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Evocative names like Wynns and Pickfords, the Mighty Antar, Albion with their rising-sun insignia, ERF, Foden, the demise of steam – It's all there ...