On this day in 1942

Visiting Coventry in 1934, a centre of the motor industry, writer JB Priestley mused that, “The modern motor car represents an astonishing feat of human ingenuity. If we were one half so clever in the

In the second of our series exploring rail’s history, development and function in relation to rival transport modes, CHRISTIAN WOLMAR takes to the roads

he British Transport Commission’s Modernisation of the Railway report was released on January 25, 1955, by its chairman, Sir Brian Robertson, and suggested a £1.24 billion spend on the railways to upd

Why we are no longer cooking with gas

Greener liquid fuels continue to progress – but experts agree on a need for a balanced approach to convince government and authorities

Three slipcased volumes, 1960 pages, 665,000 words and 3584 images – now you know why you’re being asked to stump up £395 for a work on supercharging and turbocharging. In its simplest terms, both the