1930s

The Austin Seven was the small, cheap car that put middle-class Britain on four wheels, built from 1922 to 1939 in every form from the open Chummy to the Ruby saloon and the sporting Ulster. A guide to the model that seeded BMW and Lotus, what to look for, and what they are worth.

The British cars of the 1930s, from the Austin Seven that motorised the middle class and the first affordable MG sports cars to the birth of SS Jaguar, the £100 Ford, and the coachbuilt Rolls-Royce, Bentley and Lagonda, the decade the car reached ordinary Britain before war stopped it in 1939.

The SS Jaguar 100 was William Lyons' pre-war sports car, a short, fast open two-seater whose name claimed a genuine 100 mph and which carried the Jaguar name from 1936. A guide to the SS 100, the SS Jaguar saloons, the replica question, and what they are worth.

The MG T-Series, from the pre-war TA and TB through the TC that opened America to the TD and TF, was the classic folded-body British sports car on an ash frame. A guide to the T-types, what separates them, what to look for, and what they are worth.