Shire Album S.

5 primary works

The Citroen

by Jonathan Wood

Published 28 January 1993

Perhaps the most charismatic of French marques, Citroen was established in 1919 by the brilliant, mercurial Andre Citroen. In 1934 Citroen adopted a design philosophy for advance front-wheel-drive cars intended for long production runs, a theme which continues to this day.

The Bean

by Jonathan Wood

Published 1 April 2001

The 11.9 hp Bean represented John Harper Bean's bid to manufacture Britain's most popular car of the 1920s. This Album, illustrated with many rare contemporary photographs, will appeal to old car enthusiasts and all those who respond to Britain's rich industrial past.
About the author
The first make of car that Jonathan Wood researched was the Bean from the Black Country in the English Midlands. As Historian of the Bean Car Club in the 1960s, he obtained a unique insight into the poignant story of the Bean marque when he interviewed many of the company's former employees.
Other titles for Shire by this author are:
The Volkswagen Beetle
Austin Seven
The Citroen
The Bullnose Morris
Classic Cars
The Model T Ford
The Rolls-Royce

The Bullnose Morris

by Jonathan Wood

Published 1 March 2001

The ubiquitous Morris Cowley and its more expensive Oxford stablemate were some of the most popular British cars of the 1920s. Their creator, William Morris, was a self-taught mechanic who began his career assembling bicycles in the back garde of his Cowley home. Illustrated with many rare contempoary photographs contributed by the Bullnose Morris Club, this Album explains how the Bullnose helped to make Morris, the future Lord Nuffield, Britain most successful and richester motor manufacturer of the inter-war years.

Classic Motor Cars

by Jonathan Wood

Published 11 December 1985

This book is about British cars of the post Second World War era, when Jaguars regularly won the Le Mans twenty-four hour race and Mini Coopers dominated the Monte Carlo Rally. It was the heyday of the British sports car, when MGs, Triumph TRs and Jaguars were exported all over the world and brought the delights of open-air motoring to a new affluent generations. Top-selling saloons of the time such as Morris Minor, Rover and Ford Cortina, are all reminders that Britain was also producing some of the world's finest automobile engineers. It was a period of change, when new makes such as Austin Healey, Bristol and Lotus arrived and Alvis, Armstrong Siddeley and Riley departed. This Album describes the makes, models and designers and charts the switchback fortunes of the British motor industry over thirty crucial years from 1945 until 1975, when the British Leyland combine was nationalised.

The Volkswagen Beetle

by Jonathan Wood

Published July 1989

The Volkswagen Beetle is the most successful car in history and over twenty million have been built. Conceived by Adolf Hitler in the spirit of the Model T Ford and designed by Ferdinand Porsche in the 1930s, the Beetle did not enter series production until 1945, after the Second World War. Its familiar but unconventional lines have become recognisable throughout the world and, incredibly, it is still being built at VW's Mexican factory. This edition brings the story up to date and charts the arrival and evolution of the New Beetle, visually inspired by the original, which appeared in 1998.