Key Books

Bradford Trolleybuses: The Later Years and Closure After every rise, there comes a fall, and for Bradford’s trolleybuses their demise began soon a...

Airliners of East and Central Asia With the largest landmass of all the continents, and a population of more than 4.6 billion people, Asia has a ma...

Airliners of South and Southeast Asia With the largest landmass of all the continents, and a population of more than 4.6 billion people, Asia has a...

BAC One-Eleven NOTE: This is a new book edition of Aeroplane Classic Airliner: BAC One-Eleven. On 20 August 1963, the British Aircraft Corporation ...

Avro Military 1910–63 NOTE: This is a new book edition of Aeroplane’s Avro Company Profile 1910–1996 (Military) Founded in 1910, A.V. Roe and Compa...

Buses and Coaches 1945–70: From Contemporary Adverts From 1945 to 1970, trade press advertisements for buses and coaches changed considerably, as t...

British Sports Cars Britain has been responsible for some of the greatest sports cars ever built – the ‘Blower’ Bentleys of the 1920s, diminutive M...

B-24 Liberator: Combat Photographs from the European Theater of Operations Born from a need for more B-17s, the war career of Consolidated Aircraft...

Boeing Stratocruiser and 707 NOTE: Previously published as Aeroplane Classic Airliner: Boeing Stratocruiser and 707. In 1916, William Boeing offici...

Bristol Beaufighter: Wartime Operations of the Mighty Twin The rugged Bristol Beaufighter was a multi-role aircraft. Operating as a heavily armed ...

De Havilland Canada Whether in the snow, desert, jungle, on the water or at any regular airport, de Havilland Canada’s legendary transport aircraft...

Class 66: 5/6/9 In the late 1990s, English, Welsh & Scottish Railway (EWS) was having great success with its Class 66s, and Freightliner, which...

Class 66: 3/4/7/8 In the late 1990s, English, Welsh and Scottish Railway (EWS) had led the way with its Class 66s. As other operators followed suit...

Class 50s During the mid-1960s, British Rail (BR) was looking to introduce a high-powered diesel locomotive to improve services on the West Coast M...

Class 47s: Inverness to Newquay 1986–87 In the mid-1980s, the winds of change were blowing through British Rail and often not for the good; the pac...

East Coast Main Line Locomotive Haulage The East Coast Main Line (ECML) runs from London King’s Cross to Edinburgh Waverley, with branches to Leeds...

Douglas DC-3 NOTE: Previously published as Aeroplane Classic Airliner: The Douglas DC-3. Although many early aircraft were designed to carry passen...

Concorde NOTE: Previously published as Aeroplane Classic Airliner: Concorde. The desire for airliners that could fly faster and higher than all tha...

Fairey 1915–60 NOTE: This is a new edition of Fairey Company Profile 1915–1960. One of the many ingredients required for creating a great aircraft ...

China Airlines The roots of China Airlines can be found in mainland China (the People’s Republic of China). After several attempts to set up nation...

Douglas DC-8 The Douglas DC-8, which began life in the 1950s as the Douglas Model 1881, became available to airliners a year after the first Boeing...

Cubana In October 2022, Cubana de Aviación celebrated its 93rd birthday. The flag carrier of Cuba has been on a very colourful journey since its fo...

Class 33s In 1960, the Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company built a class of 98 locomotives, later to be designated Class 33s. They were c...