Introduction - mass motoring, missing from history, Margaret Walsh; slow progress - forty years of motoring research, T.C. Barker; markets and marketing in the British motor industry before 1914, with some French comparisons, Roy Church; the outstanding potential market - the British motor industry and Europe, 1945-75, Timothy R. Whisler; concentration in the inter-war motor industry, D.G. Rhys; fom trestles to tracks - the influence of the motor car manufacturing process on the design of British car factories, Paul Collins and Michael Stratton; the British motor-cycle industry during the 1930s, Steve Koerner; the background to bus regulation in the 1930 Road Traffic Act - economic, political and personal influences in the 1920s, Corinne Mulley; steaming through New England with Locomobile, L.J. Andrew Villalon and James M. Laux; improved earth - travel on the Canadian prairies, 1920-50, Rod Bantjes; "see this amazing America" - the long-distance bus industry's use of advertising in its first quarter century, Margaret Walsh.