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British Family Cars of the 1950s and ‘60s

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British Family Cars of the 1950s and ‘60s

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With the end of the Second World War it was not long before increasing wealth, cheaper cars, and social pressures made a family car the aspiration of thousands.

Ford, Hillman, Standard, Morris and Vauxhall became household names, and the streets of Britain's suburbs began to fill with modern-looking saloon cars, designed to transport mother, father and 2.4 children with ease, if not speed.

This highly-illustrated book looks at the British cars that were available to the post-war family, and also some of the foreign makes that had an important place in the market, and which had a great influence on the British-made cars that followed.

Table of Contents

Introduction
The First Post-war Family Cars
A New Era
The Outsiders
Ford: Favourites of the Fifties
Major Advances
Cars for the Better-off
Retrospection
Suggested Reading
Places to Visit
Index

Product details

Published 10 Apr 2009
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Pages 64
ISBN 9780747807124
Imprint Shire Publications
Illustrations 20 b/w; 60 col
Dimensions 210 x 149 mm
Series Shire Library
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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