Many years of research by experts on automobile history from around the world, led by respected journalist and motoring historian Nick Georgano, have gone into creating The Beaulieu Encyclopaedia of the Automobile.

It contains:

• Over 2,000 pages in two hardback volumes
• Facts and figures on nearly 7,000 marques of car
• 3,500 photographs - including many rare and previously unpublished prints
• 152 biographies of designers, from the legends of motoring through to the colourful, eccentric and downright crooked
• More than 80 classic motoring advertisements
• Histories of manufacturers as diverse as Bugatti, Porsche, Trabant, De Lorean and the MacDonald steam car, of which only one was produced.
• The stories behind extraordinary and imaginatively named makes such as Seven Little Buffaloes, Urban Gorilla, Sam's Surplus Alley Cat and, from Italy, the Baldy Fro