Bedford's Motoring Heritage

Richard Wildman is School Archivist of Bedford Modern School, Secretary of the Old Bedford Modernians' Club, and President of Bedford Archaeological and Local History Society. He is the author of five previous books of old photographs of Bedford and Bedfordshire, including Bedford in Old Photographs (The History Press, 2009). Alan Crawley is a third-generation member of a well-known family of Bedford motor dealers, and spent his whole career in the motor trade. A past president of Bedford Archaeological and Local History Society, he has also researched the Saxon origins of Bedford, and the names of its oldest streets.