Three-Wheelers - The Complete History Of Trikes 1885-1995

Three wheels: because two felt reckless, four felt conventional, and someone clearly thought balance was negotiable.

Three-Wheelers: The Complete History of Trikes 1885–1995 by Chris Rees is a wonderfully niche celebration of motoring’s oddest middle child. From early experimental machines to practical runabouts, delivery vehicles, bubble cars, sporting trikes, and assorted mechanical curiosities, this book gives the three-wheeler the full historical treatment it probably always believed it deserved.

There is something deeply British, and slightly heroic, about the three-wheeler. It is neither motorcycle nor car, but a stubborn compromise with tax advantages, engineering ambition, and the faint air of someone arriving at a formal dinner through the side door.

Rees charts the designs, makers, successes, failures, and glorious peculiarities of a vehicle type that refused to be embarrassed by geometry. Some were clever. Some were beautiful. Some looked as if they had been assembled during an argument. All belong to the strange, inventive history of personal transport.

This fine copy, as sold by Crappy Old Books, is ideal for motoring historians, vintage vehicle enthusiasts, Reliant admirers, Morgan fans, and anyone who understands that the history of transport is much more interesting when it wobbles slightly.

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