100 Years of Motoring

Motoring in Britain began the century as a minority pursuit of the rich and eccentric: here the story unfolds until 33 million vehicles travel on British roads today. Motor sport from the makeshift, oily days of pre-war Brooklands to the professionalism of today's Formula One, the empty roads of the past to contemporary motorway congestion, family holidays in Austins and Fords: our memories are filled with motoring and the pictures here will prompt many a reminiscence.