1930s

The Austin Ten was Longbridge's family car for the 1930s and quietly out-sold everything else Austin made, running from the 1932 Ten-Four through the Lichfield, Sherborne and Cambridge to the wartime Tilly and the post-war GS1. A guide to the variants, the war years, buying checks and values.

The Morris Eight was Cowley's answer to Ford's Model Y and became Britain's best-selling car of the late 1930s, running from the Series I to the post-war Series E. A guide to the series, the tourers and vans, what to check when buying, and what a Morris Eight costs today.

Riley used the Kestrel name twice, first on the streamlined fastback saloons of the 1930s with their twin-cam engines, then on the walnut-trimmed 1965 version of the BMC 1100/1300. A guide to both Kestrels, the sporting pre-war cars, the badge-engineered finale, and what each costs today.

BSA's three-wheelers took on Morgan with a weapon nobody expected from a motorcycle firm, front-wheel drive, and sold in thousands on the strength of car comfort at motorcycle tax. A guide to the v-twin and four-cylinder cars, how they differ from a Morgan, the Scout that followed, and what one costs today.

Nearly forty years of bread-and-butter family car, from the sidevalve saloons of the 1930s through the crisp Loewy-styled Audax Series cars to the last New Minx of 1970. A guide to the Minx generations, the Super Minx and the badge-engineered cousins, what to look for when buying, and what a Minx is worth today.

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 many Sevens, the model that seeded BMW and Lotus, and what to look for when buying one.

The pre-war decade in full, 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 years 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 one is like to own, and what to look for when buying.