The 1954 Chicago Auto Show was the venue for the unveiling of the Ford FX-Atmos – a concept car built by the Ford Motor Company.…
Browsing: Transport
The Automobile Association (The AA) was founded in London on 19 June 1905 by a small group of motoring enthusiasts under the temporary name “Motorists’…
Opened in 1938 and originally built as a transport cafe to serve motorists on the new (at the time) A406 North Circular, the Ace Cafe…
The Africar was the idea of Tony Howarth, an English journalist and photographer who spent much of the 1970s in Africa. He disliked the developed…
As far as automotive ideas go, the Amphicar never really held water, even if it could float on it. However, this unusual amphibian somehow made it…
The Ariel 3 was a three-wheeled moped produced by BSA in the UK and launched in 1970. With a Dutch Anker 50cc two-stroke engine situated…
As the 1970s dawned, Austin decided that they would produce a Glam car for discerning middle-class suburban swingers using a name which had earned prestige…
In 1954, the British Pullman Car Company was taken over by the British Transport Commission and the following year its chairman, Sir Brian Robertson, announced…
Reliant commissioned Ogle (their design consultants) to produce a sports 3-wheeler for the “young generation”. This was to be sold under the Bond name as the…
British Road Services (BRS) was established in 1948 as the road transport company formed by the nationalisation of Britain’s road haulage industry, under the British…
In 1958, Messerschmitt launched their TG500 – a four-wheeler where the driver sat alone in the front, with one or two passengers behind. The car returned…
The 1950’s were the golden age of the American automobile: GM, Ford and Chrysler were topping the market, but smaller manufacturers like Hudson, Packard and…
During the 1960s, motoring took on a new outlook as the Freeway system (in the US) and the Motorway system (in the UK) spread. In…
As the glam decade dawned, America experienced its worst recession in years and Detroit became increasingly concerned with the growing popularity of imported cars. AMC responded…
On 31 December 1980, Japan was declared the world’s biggest car maker. That year, the Japanese produced 12.7 million vehicles out of a world total…
With sales of new cars down in 1990 by over 5%, the time seemed totally wrong for General Motors to introduce Saturn, its first new brand…
In 1953, Paris tour company Groupe Cityrama commissioned a fleet of buses. Since tourism in Paris was highly competitive, the company decided to build distinctive…
The first supersonic airliner Concorde began transatlantic flights from London to New York on 24 May 1976. The new aircraft reduced the flight time to…
1961 EK $2212 1962 EJ $2102 1963 EH $2102 1965 HD $2320 1966 HR $2167 1968 HK $2215 1969 HT $2326 1970 HG $2394 1971…
Whether you were travelling in the Mystery Machine with Scooby-Doo and crew, or just pulling bongs in the back of a Dodge Econoline airbrushed with…