Vehicles, Bikes, Planes, Boats

"Classic" has been defined by the Classic Car Club of America as the "golden age" of automobile design between the years 1925 and 1948. This guide pictures cars in period settings and also details historical profiles of the designers and manufacturers. All the major marques are featured.

This charming book, packed with unique artwork and engaging photographs, celebrates scooter mania. In a feast of nostalgia, it takes us through the evolution of the scooter, focusing naturally on all things Lambretta and Vespa, but also covering plenty of obscure and eccentric machinery along the way.

A legend in its own time, over five thousand Phantoms were built in St Louis and Japan over more than twenty years. This heavily tabular book gives the construction number and first flight date of each aircraft and the attrition or retirement date and disposition of those no longer in service. USAF,USN ...

The first figureheads that were carved to represent the names of British warships appeared during the reign of Henry VIII; the last ones were carved in the early years of the twentieth century. During the intervening three hundred and fifty years it is estimated that some 5000 ships of the Royal Navy ...

This book guides the reader through a land where the road to hell is paved not with good intentions, but with cobbles. This is a place where all the world is a stage, unless you are a one-day specialist. Where its inhabitants come with a litany of arresting nicknames - Badgers, Cannibals, Eagles, Pirates - each with a wonderful story of their own.

Things have moved on since the C19th, and this book charts the course for us. Illustrated in B&W throughout/

Follows the progress of the famous marque from the early days and roots in the C19th West Midlands bicycle company through the decades to the 1990s. Full colour pictures throughout.

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The best cycling routes in the world from the Yorkshire Dales to the volcanoes of Colombia

Covering vertical-rising aircraft as envisioned from the earliest concepts to the period when the helicopter became practical machine in the 1930s, this text focuses on the many pioneering ideas and efforts that led to the creation of today's modern helicopter, whilst exploring possibilities for the ...

My Cool Campervan celebrates the new wave of interest in modern-retro campervans. Join Jane Field-Lewis and Chris Haddon as they set off on a 3500-mile trip to locate campervans and proud owners sharing their memories of family holidays under candy-striped pop-top roofs, of ice creams on long road trips, of sunny days and simple pleasures.

Convertibles (in the First Gear series) is a celebration of the classic drop-top, from the earliest of coach cars where convertible style was the norm, to the high-end sports cars of today. Today’s convertible is a metaphor for freedom on the open road. To drop the top and feel the wind and sun and ...

High performance and utterly thrilling to drive, the muscle car changed the way we view automobiles. Through marketing wars and head to head horse power battles, a carefully curated ideology of what the muscle car should be able to do evolved. American family style two door sports coups with rear wheel ...

Chronicles 50 years of the iconic railway from 1960 to 2009.

Spanning some 350 years, the Thomson Collection of historic ship models contains examples of exquisite workmanship and some of the masterpieces of the genre. Pride of the collection are the rare British dockyard models made to scale for affluent 18th-century clients closely associated with the Navy.

The Thames was once Britain's shipbuilding heart, with its banks teeming with men toiling on wooden-hulled vessels. David Ramzan looks at three Greenwich-built ships, their design and their impact on the world.

The Vodka-Cola Cowboy describes life trucking in what is possibly the harshest environment, in the world - Russia. The book vividly illustrates the conditions that British truck drivers encountered, such as the atrocious winter weather in a wild and unforgiving landscape, police harassment and the dangers that came with the dissolution of the USSR.

The history of the U.S. Army Rangers is filled with courage, daring and unsurpassed fighting skills. The unit's success is directly attributable to its rigorous training, and the Ranger Handbook represents the core of those battlefield skills. Paladin Press is proud to be able to offer the newly released revised edition of the Ranger Handbook.