The Motor Car and Politics 1896 ? 1970

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Hardback in green cloth boards, gilt titles, some shelfwear, and some foxing to the edge block, otherwise in Very Good condition. Dustwrapper has some shelfwear, a small tear on top of cover, internally repaired, otherwise in Very Good condition. In a clear protective archival wrapper.First edition, pp467, index. Gentlemen of education and position: from 1896 to the Motor Car Act, 1903 -- All the strawberries were spoiled: the motor car and the roads problem -- Making a bargain: the creation of the Road Fund -- An association of burglars: the Home Office and the AA -- Unpatriotic joy-riders: the 1914-18 war -- So repeatedly promised: the regulation of the motor car in the 1920s -- How to pay for the roads: the arguments in the 1920s -- Prosperity and panic: the motor industry, the Slump and the Horsepower tax -- Breaking a bargain: the Treasury campaign against the Road Fund, 1919-29 -- Soothing the motorists: the 1929 General Election -- More nuisance than barrel organs: other attempts to control the motor car -- The end of the speed limit: the Road Traffic Act, 1930 -- Middle-class killers: private motoring in the 1930s -- The end of the Road Fund -- Austerity motoring: the war and after -- No unreasonable restrictions: the later 1950s -- No simple remedy: the 1960s -- Motorists and others: the interested parties in the 1960s -- Government and the car -- Planning for the car?. N° de ref. del artículo 012033

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