1940s

The Austin A40 badge covered twenty years of small Austins, the export-drive Devon, the rounded Somerset, the Jensen-bodied Sports and the Farina that quietly invented the modern hatchback shape. A guide to the whole family, buying checks and values.

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.

The Riley RM series, RMA to RMF, was the final flowering of the true Riley, a twin-cam sports saloon with torsion-bar suspension and coachbuilt elegance, plus the rare RMC roadster and RMD drophead. A guide to every RM model, how to tell them apart, buying checks and values.

The Standard Vanguard was post-war Britain's one-model gamble, a beetle-backed export machine whose wet-liner engine also powered the Ferguson tractor and the Triumph TR sports cars. A guide to the three phases, the Standard name's fate, the Triumph connection, what to check when buying, and what a Vanguard costs today.

The Land Rover Series I is the spartan, aluminium-bodied original that started it all in 1948. A guide to the 80, 86 and 88 inch cars, the petrol and diesel engines, the early freewheel four-wheel drive, what to look for when buying, and why the earliest cars are now so valuable.

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.

Nuffield built bright orange tractors from 1948, made by the Morris car empire under Lord Nuffield himself. A guide to the old Nuffield tractors worth knowing, from the Universal M3 and M4 to the ten-speed 10/60 and the 4/65, the move to Bathgate, what to look for when buying, and what a vintage Nuffield is worth.

David Brown built well-engineered classic tractors at Meltham in Yorkshire from the 1936 Ferguson-Brown to the Selectamatic range, and the same company owned Aston Martin, giving the DB in DB5 its initials. The history, the Cropmaster, Implematic and Selectamatic models, the Aston Martin connection, what to look for when buying, and values.

The Ferguson TE20, the "little grey Fergie", is the tractor that brought Harry Ferguson's three-point hydraulic system to the world. Over half a million built in Coventry from 1946. Its history, the Ford handshake and the famous lawsuit, the petrol, TVO and diesel engines, what to check when buying, and what one is worth.

The Fordson Major is the heavyweight British classic tractor, built by Ford at Dagenham from the post-war E27N to the diesel New Major, Power Major and Super Major of 1952 to 1964. Its history, the engines, the difference between the E27N and the New Major, what to check when buying, and what one is worth.

A decade split in two by the war, from the factories' switch to tanks and aero-engines and the 1945 restart, to the landmark launches of the MG TC, the Land Rover Series I, the Jaguar XK120, and the Bentley Mark VI under the "Export or Die" policy.