CARS WE LOVED IN THE 50S GILES CHAPMAN

Cars We Loved in the 1950s

GILES CHAPMAN

150x180mm

Paperback

160pp

200 colour illustrations

After the Second World War, new cars in Britain

were very hard to come by. Most new models had

to go for export, or were reserved for drivers with

pressing needs, such as doctors. Petrol was

rationed, roads inadequate, and modern

technology lacking. With the 1950s, things slowly

began to change. Morris, Austin and Ford put

increasing numbers of British families on four

wheels, while new sports cars from MG, Jaguar,

Triumph and Austin-Healey promised motoring

excitement. There was the innovative Land Rover,

and the ‘bubble car’ phenomenon. By 1958, new

car buying was leading a consumer boom …and

Britain’s manufacturers still had the market to

themselves. Giles Chapman investigates the

fascinating motoring decade of the 1950s.

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