There are few more familiar sights today on the congested roads of Britain and the rest of the world than the road tanker. These specialised vehicles can be seen carrying a wide range of goods - from milk through to oil - without which contemporary society could not function. If the importance of the tanker industry to the economy required further proof, then the fuel dispute in the autumn of 2000 provided a graphic indication of how dependant we are upon the delivery of fuel nationwide using these vehicles.

Whilst the range of products carried by tankers has expanded rapidly over the years, the basic concept of the tanker is one of the earliest forms of specialised transport to be developed. From the earliest days of the internal combustion engine, many materials required careful shipment if a volatile mix of chemical and air was to be avoided, and the tanker provided this safe means of transport.

In An Illustrated History of Road Tankers, Hinton Sheryn examines the development of the road tanker from the earliest days and looks at the wide range of products carried. With more than 250 photographs drawn from numerous company and manufacturer archives, many of which are previously unpublished, the book is a comprehensive portrait of this type of transport.

An Illustrated History Of Road Tankers is an essential guide for all those interested in the history of commercial vehicles and the development of the road hauling industry as well as those involved in the preservation or modelling of road tankers.

Hardback. 128 pages.