Auto Review Books from Oxford Diecast
Auto Review is a series of A5 32-page monographs on subjects related to transport, collecting and popular culture, which began publication in 1996. First, a little about how it all started: We began to publish the Auto Review series in early 1996, after deciding on the subject matter, size and presentation of this series of compact, concise, affordable monographs on subjects related to transport, collecting and popular culture.
The first six titles included 32 A5 size pages, all in mono (black and white) plus stiff card outer covers in colour, and they were priced at only £2.95 each. Those titles are still that price today. Over the next two years the range grew, and the price increased to £3.95 each. The authors of the early books were in a network of friends and co-contributors to Model Auto Review magazine.
You may notice that 19 numbers are missing from the early sequence of Auto Review titles. 16 of them were issues of avia mini, a publication for collectors of model and toy aircraft. All of the old avia mini issues are still available, but they are not listed in this catalogue.
After publication of Auto Review 17: Vehicles of the RAC, personal circumstances forced us to suspend publication of three titles which were planned for release at that time (on motor coaches, Ford Thunderbirds and taxicabs), and their numbers were abandoned.
We considered re-launching Auto Review at various times, but it was almost ten years before we did so, encouraged by a friend who needed two publications for his own commercial purposes. We therefore re-designed the format, introducing eight pages of full colour into the 32 A5 pages, now at a cover price of £5.95. Those two publications were on Mini and Spitfire (Auto Review 31 and 32), making us look again at some of the titles suspended a decade earlier. The revived series was so well-received that a production programme was soon put under way, the rate of release increasing to one per month. Some are written by world-renowned experts on their subject, such as Paul Nieuwenhuis (DAF) and C David Conway (Citroen), but most of the others carry my name on the cover. Don’t be misled, however; every Auto Review title is a joint effort by a wide-ranging group of enthusiasts from all over the world. Some of them provide considerable amounts of text, others offer snippets and anecdotes. Illustrations are sourced from archives of photographs, sales catalogues and other ephemera belonging to our team of contributors.
Oxford Diecast has supported Auto Review for many years and distributes the range of titles.
Auto Review Cord Corporation by Rod Ward
Product code: AR117£5.95Errett Lobban Cord, born in 1894 in Missouri, was a super-salesman brought in to rescue the ailing Auburn car company. He soon took control of the firm, then he acquired Duesenberg, the top US luxury car maker of the pe...£5.95
Auto Review Borgward Album by Rod Ward
Product code: AR118£5.95Carl Borgward is one of those characters who fascinate automotive historians. He was, like so many entrepreneurs, single-minded, autocratic and often disagreeable. His only interest was in his cars, not in the details o...£5.95
Auto Review Books Westland Album
Product code: AR134£6.45AUTO REVIEW AR134 Westland Album Books Non Scale Model ...£6.45
Auto Review Books The Maserati Album
Product code: AR131£6.45The Maserati brothers, Alfieri, Bindo, Carlo, Ettore and Ernesto set up their own car marque in Bologna in 1926. A sixth brother, Mario, designed their trident emblem. They built highly successful racing cars, but in 19...£6.45
Auto Review Books The Air Cooled Volkswagen
Product code: AR129£6.45This publication covers all air-cooled Volkswagens: Type 1 Beetle saloons and cabriolets, Karmann Ghia coupes and convertibles, Type 2 vans, microbuses, campers, estate cars, pickups and ambulances (T1, T2 and T3 'Trans...£6.45
Auto Review Books Studebaker Album
Product code: AR144£6.45Here we have the story of a firm which built vehicles for over a century. Studebaker was the leading maker of horse-drawn wagons and carriages in 19th century America. Turning to motor vehicles in the early years of the...£6.45
Auto Review Books Scammell Album
Product code: AR133£6.45AUTO REVIEW AR133 Scammell Album Books Non Scale Model ...£6.45
Auto Review Books Porsche Album Part 2
Product code: AR156£6.45Auto Review Books Porsche Album Part 2 ...£6.45
Auto Review Books Porsche Album Part 1
Product code: AR153£6.45Auto Review Books Porsche Album Part 1 ...£6.45
Auto Review Books Opel Album
Product code: AR158£6.45AUTO REVIEW AR158 Opel Album Books Non Scale Model ...£6.45
Auto Review Books Micro Caravans
Product code: AR130£6.45Here Andrew Jenkinson examines 'micro' caravans, the smallest touring trailers on the market, capable of being towed by the smallest contemporary cars (or even motorcycles). The micro caravan dates back to the early 192...£6.45
Auto Review Books Mercedes-Benz Part Four: Competition Cars
Product code: AR159£6.45The Mercedes-Benz marque originated in two separate car makers, Benz and Daimler, who were both involved in competition events from the early days. First we look at Benz, then we have the Daimler account, followed by Me...£6.45
Auto Review Books Mercedes-Benz part 2 : Commercial Vehicles
Product code: AR146£6.45AUTO REVIEW AR146 Mercedes-Benz part 2 : Commercial Vehicles Books Non Scale Model ...£6.45
Auto Review Books Mercedes Benz Part 3: Unimog and MB-Trac
Product code: AR149£6.45Auto Review Books Mercedes Benz Part 3: Unimog and MB-Trac ...£6.45
Auto Review Books Mercedes Benz Album
Product code: AR143£6.45Gottlieb Daimler (1834-1900) and Karl Benz (1844-1929) made the first practical petrol-driven cars in the world, both of them in south-west Germany. Benz was first, with a three-wheeler vehicle in 1885 in Mannheim, foll...£6.45
Auto Review Books Made In Austria Album
Product code: AR147£6.45AUTO REVIEW AR147 Made In Austria Album Books Non Scale Model ...£6.45
Auto Review Books Lincoln and Continental Album
Product code: AR162£6.45AR162Lincoln Album -and Continental Lincoln became part of Henry Ford's automotive empire in 1922, but its origins go back to a much earlier firm set up by Henry Ford in 1899, the Detroit Automobile Co, which collapsed ...£6.45
Auto Review Books Leyland Album Part 1: lorries & vans
Product code: AR152£6.45I n 1896 the Lancashire Steam Motor Co was set up in Leyland, Lancashire. In 1907 it was renamed Leyland Motors, the firm rapidly taking a leading position in the British commercial vehicle market, providing Subsidy lor...£6.45
Auto Review Books Leyland Album Leyland Album Part Two: Buses and Coaches
Product code: AR154£6.45Auto Review Books Leyland Album Leyland Album Part Two: Buses and Coaches ...£6.45
Auto Review Books Lamborghini Album
Product code: AR148£6.45AUTO REVIEW AR148 Lamborghini Album Books Non Scale Model ...£6.45
Auto Review Books Jeep Album
Product code: AR142£6.45AUTO REVIEW AR142 Jeep Album Books Non Scale Model ...£6.45
Auto Review Books Italian and other Italian I marques Album
Product code: AR161£6.45AR161Isotta Fraschini -Plus Itala, Innocenti, Iso and others As we surveyed car marques still to be covered in the Auto Review series, there were two classic Italian marques near the top of the list, Isotta Fraschini an...£6.45
Auto Review Books International Album
Product code: AR157£6.45AUTO REVIEW AR157 International Album Books Non Scale Model ...£6.45
Auto Review Books Hotchkiss Album
Product code: AR145£6.45AUTO REVIEW AR145 Hotchkiss Album Books Non Scale Model ...£6.45
Auto Review Books Foden Album
Product code: AR140£6.45Edwin Foden was a gifted young engineer in Sandbach, Cheshire, producing steam engines in the 19th century. He had two sons, who both later came into the business, and two daughters, both of whose husbands also worked a...£6.45
Auto Review Books Ferrari Album part 2: the racing cars
Product code: AR151£6.45Auto Review often manages to cover a marque history in one volume which at first sight seems too big for a single publication. At other times the task is too difficult, so if there is a logical division, we divide a sto...£6.45
Auto Review Books Ferrari Album
Product code: AR141£6.45AUTO REVIEW AR141 Ferrari Album Part One: On the Road Cars Books Non Scale Model ...£6.45
Auto Review Books ERF Album
Product code: AR160£6.45AUTO REVIEW AR160 ERF Album Books Non Scale Model ...£6.45
Auto Review Books Delahaye Album
Product code: AR132£6.45This Auto Review mini-series describes three French car marques whose names resonate with style and quality: Delahaye, Delage and Hotchkiss . They were competitors for many years, but they were thrown together by econom...£6.45
Auto Review Books Delage Album
Product code: AR137£6.45Here we have the story of 'one of France's fine cars', to quote William Boddy.Louis Delage had an unpromising start in life, losing the sight of one eye at a young age, but he turned out to be a clever engineer and youn...£6.45
Auto Review Books BMW Album
Product code: AR136£6.45AUTO REVIEW AR136 BMW Album Books Non Scale Model ...£6.45
Auto Review Books BMW AEC Album Part 2 - after 1945
Product code: Ar138£6.45Auto Review 135 told the story of AEC from the beginning up to 1945. This publication completes the history of the Southall company to 1977, when the brand name was discontinued.The 1940s saw postwar expansion by AEC, w...£6.45
Auto Review Books American Motors
Product code: AR139£6.45This is the story of two American car marques, Hudson and Nash, which united to form American Motors (AMC). Roy Chapin and his colleagues had founded Hudson in 1909, taking the name from their main financial backer, a d...£6.45
Auto Review Books Aec Album Part One
Product code: AR135£6.45Auto Review Books Aec Album Part One ...£6.45
Auto Review Books A Jowett Album plus vehicles built in Yorkshire
Product code: AR45A£6.45In 1904 Bradford brothers Benjamin and William Jowett set up the Jowett Motor Manufacturing Co, in 1909. Their first car was an open two-seater with tiller steering, an 816cc flat-twin water-cooled engine and a three sp...£6.45
Auto Review Atkinson, Seddon and Seddon-Atkinson By Rod Ward
Product code: AR119£5.95Here we have the stories of two classic British commercial vehicle manufacturers, Atkinson and Seddon. Both firms had separate lives until 1970, when Seddon took over Atkinson, but only four years later the combined ent...£5.95
Auto Review AR99 Blackburn Album: Aircraft built in Yorkshire By Ward
Product code: AR99£6.45Of the leading British aircraft companies, Blackburn gets less attention than most others, partly due to its location, tucked away in East Yorkshire, and to the self-effacing modesty of its pioneering founder, Robert Bl...£6.45
Auto Review AR98 Forgotten Family Cars By Rod Ward
Product code: AR98£6.45Hundreds of British companies have made cars in the past 150 years. Most of these companies are unknown today, many of them deservedly so, but some car marques should be better known. In this publication we look at a co...£6.45
Auto Review AR97 Renault Album By Rod Ward
Product code: AR97£6.45Out of the many dozens of car makers in France, and the many hundreds in Europe, in the early years of the 20th century, who could have predicted that a century later Renault would be one of the few survivors? Louis Ren...£6.45
Auto Review AR96 Nissan Album,Datsun, Prince, Infiniti By Rod Ward
Product code: AR96£6.45We all have some memories of Nissan and Datsun cars, if it was only a Bluebird taxi that took us safely to the airport, or a Micra that seemed to last forever, outliving every other car in the family. To some enthusiast...£6.45
Auto Review AR95 Plastic kits Made in Britain By Rod Ward
Product code: AR95£6.45The plastic kit was a new phenomenon in the 1950s. A number of small plastics companies bravely entered this novel and specialist market. Airfix succeeded beyond their wildest expectations, growing into a large industri...£6.45
Auto Review AR94 The Trojan Story by Rod Ward
Product code: AR94£6.45The story of Trojan and its vehicles from the earliest days, through the postwar Trojan 15 era to later years making all kinds of products. To understand what drove Leslie Hounsfield to design the original Trojan, we al...£6.45
Auto Review AR93 Alfa Romeo; An Auto Review Album edited by Rod Ward
Product code: AR93£6.45The name of Alfa Romeo resonates among enthusiasts; its history is laced with superb car designs and racing victories. Alfa Romeo made sporting machinery accessible to a wide public, producing exciting cars which were p...£6.45
Auto Review AR92 Ford in Britain including Europe -Turner & Ward
Product code: AR92£6.45Our aim with the Auto Review series is, wherever possible, to contain a complete story, within one small volume, whether it be a marque history or a thematic study. We postponed tackling the story of Ford in Britain (an...£6.45
Auto Review AR91 Ford in Britain France and Germany-Turner & Ward
Product code: AR91£6.45Our aim with the Auto Review series is, wherever possible, to contain a complete story, within one small volume, whether it be a marque history or a thematic study. We postponed tackling the story of Ford in Britain (an...£6.45
Auto Review AR90 Miniature Vehicles By Rod Ward
Product code: AR90£6.45Since the first issue of Model Auto Review was published in 1982, 'miniature vehicles' have had their place in our pages as collectors' pieces. In MAR 8 in 1984 was an acclaimed feature on Johnstone buses, by expert Geo...£6.45
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