An Irish Roadside Camera: Ireland's Earliest Motorists and Their Automobiles, 1896-1906

by Bob Montgomery

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Drawn from the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, the Lawrence Collection, the Father Browne Collection and the RIAC Guinness Segrave Archive, this is a photographic history of the automobile in Ireland. The photographs capture the qualities of the automobiles, their owners, the eccentricities and the achievements of the first ten years of motoring in Ireland against the backdrop of rural and urban society and a wide variety of people and places. All are comprehensively captioned. The book contains a chronology of motoring and an introduction for all readers with an interest in a bygone era of Irish life.
  • ISBN10 186023058X
  • ISBN13 9781860230585
  • Publish Date October 1997
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 9 July 2008
  • Publish Country IE
  • Publisher The Mercier Press Ltd
  • Imprint Marino Books
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 240
  • Language English