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Transport7903. : Ferguson Heritage. Coventry: Friends of Ferguson Heritage 29.5 by 21 cms. Encompassing Massey Harris and derivatives. A run of 8 issues, no's 5 Autumn 1995, no. 6 Spring 1996, no. 7 Summer 1996, no. 8 Autumn 1996, no. 9 Spring 1997, no. 10 Summer 1997, no 12, Spring 1998. All in very good condition, almost new. For Tractor enthusiasts. £42.008075. : My Book of Railways Ships and Aeroplanes London: Fredrick Warne n.d. c. 1935. 24 by 20 cms. no pagination c.184 pp. with twenty four plates in colour. Hardback in very fresh tight clean condition apart from minor corner bumps. Cover by Cuneo. 11 plates by Cuneo, others by F.E. Mackay, Hebron, M. W. Earley and others unnamed. Plates of trains, planes, racing cars, ships, as well as black and white drawings throughout the text, all very nostalgic. £23.008158. : Railway Returns: Returns of the Capital, Traffic, Receipts, and Working Expenditure of the Railway Companies of the United Kingdom for the year 1913. London: H.M.S.O. 1915. With a general report thereon and summary tables for a series of years.33.5 by 21.5 cms. xlix+150 pp. in paper covers, the front cover has been nibbled and has various holes in the left hand side, no damage elsewhere other than two small holes in the rear cover, a few old top corner folds and a few pages with neat annotation, otherwise a very tight copy, in good condition. From the G.N.R. Accountant's Office Dublin. Relatively scarce. £25.008159. : Railway Returns: Returns of the Capital, Traffic, Receipts, and Working Expenditure of the Railway Companies of the United Kingdom for the year 1911 and 1912. London: H.M.S.O. 1912 and 1913. Two Years bound as one. With a general report thereon and summary tables for a series of years.33.5 by 21.5 cms. xlix+98+xlix+98 pp. in half leather, boards scuffed and rubbed as usual, otherwise a very tight copy, in very good condition. Relatively scarce. £25.008160. : Railway Returns: Returns of the Capital, Traffic, Receipts, and Working Expenditure of the Railway Companies of the United Kingdom for the years 1900-1910. London: H.M.S.O. 1901-1911. Ten years bound as one. With a general report thereon and summary tables for a series of years.33.5 by21.5cms.xxi+93+xxiii+94+xlix+98+liii+98+liii+98+liii+98+xlix+98+li+98+li+98+xlix+98. in black cloth, boards a little bit rubbed, spine professionally repaired, otherwise a very tight copy, in very good condition. From the G.N.R. (I) Accountant's Office Dublin. Relatively scarce. This is a very heavy item. £200.008135. : Transport History Newton Abbot: David & Charles Vol 5 No 1 March 1972 120 pp. maps, illustrations, card covers, Articles include, railway competition and consolidation in north-eastern England 1854-80, Dover Post-Office Packet services, transportation in a pioneer area: a note on muskoka, Richard Castle's "Essay on Artificial Navigation" 1730. In very good condition. £5.008138. : Transport History Newton Abbot: David & Charles Vol 5 No 3 Nov. 1972 pp. 229-328. maps, illustrations, card covers, Articles include, monopoly and public utility: the Birmingham canals 1767-72, the promotion of four Yorkshire railways and the Share Capital Market, the London independent Bus operators 1922-34, John Joice & Son Coachbuilders, Basingstoke. In very good condition. £5.008137. : Transport History. Newton Abbot: David & Charles Vol 5 No 2 July 1972. pp. 125-224. maps, illustrations, card covers, Articles include, the supply of coal to Edinburgh 1790-1850, the earliest passenger carrying railway vehicle, Richard Castle's "Essay on Artificial Navigation" 1730. John Phillips: surveyor and writer on canals, Labour agitation and the origins of unionism on the Liverpool Tramways. In very good condition. £5.009003. Allen, C. Edgar: The Modern Locomotive. Cambridge: University Press 1912. viii+174 pp. illustrated, red covers, minor wear, very good. Written not for specialists but the wider public. £15.008247. Beaumont, Anthony: Traction Engine Pictures. London: Percival Marshall 1961. 12 by 18.5 cms.64 pp. illustrated, card covers, covers a little dusty but otherwise very good. Super photos of tractors and traction engines. £5.003528. British Railways Board: London on Wheels Public Transport in London in the Nineteenth Century. London: British Railways Board 1968. 21.5 by 14 cms 24pp. illustrated, paper covers, a handsome little booklet very good. £4.956304. British Waterways: Inland Cruising Booklet 12. Cruising on the Trent & Mersey Canal Part 1. British Waterways: n.d. c. 1957 40 pp. illustrated folding coloured map. very good. Part 1 covers Trent Lock to Great Haywood Junction including part of the Coventry Canal. £5.008490. Clayton, Nick: Early Bicycles Princes Risborough: Shire Publications, 1986. Shire Album 173. 32pp, in pictorial glazed card covers. 21 x 15 cm. 39 illustrations. Lists of Clubs, and relevent museums, and bibliography. £5.007934. Clegg, W. Paul: Docks and Ports: 2 London. London: Ian Allan 1987. 96 pp. illustrated, hardback. A useful series covering the history of British docks and ports. £7.006453. Dittmar, Hank and Ohland, Gloria editors: The New Transit Town best Practices in Transit-orientated Development. Washington: Island Press2004. xiv+253 pp. illustrated, paperback, almost as new. Explores the key challenges to transit-orientated development, examines the lessons from earlier projects and seeks to set future standards. £15.005700. Duckham, Baron F. editor: Transport History Volume 5 Newton Abbot: David & Charles 1973. Volume 5 of the journal, Transport History. 340 pp. illustrated, very good, almost as new, in d.w. Articles include, Railway consolidation and competition in North Eastern England 1854-1880 by D. Brooke, Dover Post Office Packet series 1633-1837 by Brian Austen, Transportation in a pioneer area: a note on Muskoka by Geoffrey Wall, and Richard Castle's essay on artificial navigation 1730 edited by J.H. Farrington, along with 8 others £10.006558. Fowler, S.R.: An Apprentice at McLaren's 1916-1920. The Oakwood Press 1976. Locomotion Papers Number 94. 21.5 by 14 cms. 36 pp. illustrated, card covers. They built traction engines. One of a long series of excellent small books on transport history. £12.003738. Gourvish, T.R. and Turnbull, G.L. editors: The Journal of Transport History. Manchester Univ. Press Third Series Vol 3 No. 1 Mar 1982. 24.5 by 19 cms. 93pp. illustrated. title page a little damaged. £10.003737. Gourvish, T.R. and Turnbull, G.L. editors: The Journal of Transport History. Manchester Univ. Press Third Series Vol 2 No. 2 September 1981. 24.5 by 19 cms. 82pp. illustrated. £12.003736. Gourvish, T.R. and Turnbull, G.L. editors: The Journal of Transport History. Manchester Univ. Press Third Series Vol 2 No. 1 March 1981. 24.5 by 19 cms. 81pp. illustrated. £12.007936. Greeves, Ivan S.: London Docks 1800-1980 A Civil Engineering History. London: Thomas Telford 1980 154 pp. illustrated, very good almost as new in v.g. dustwrapper. Covers the major engineering developments carried out in the Port of London over 180 years. £8.006739. Hall, Chas. C: Sheffield Transport. Glossop: The Transport Publishing Company 1977. 30 by 22.5 cms. 332 pp. Illustrated, maps, very good in dustwrapper. The street transport scene in the city in a comprehensive and magisterial study. Written of course before the building of the new tramway system in recent years. £50.008142. Hawke, G.R.: Railways and Economic Growth in England and Wales 1840-1870. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1970. xiv+421 pp. Apart from a previous Professor's name taking up most of the ffep, in very good condition, with a very good dustwrapper. A ground breaking and important study. £18.008255. Light Railway Transport League: The Modern Tramway. Light Railway Transport League, 1940. Vol. 3, Nos. 27, 31, and 33-36, pp 21-32, 69-84, and 99-144. 28 x 21.5 cm. Illustrated. These issues contain articles by Harold Fayle on The Hill of Howth Tramway, and "Electric Tramways of Ireland" including the Bessbrook & Newry, Belfast, Cork, and Dublin Tramways. The six issues have been bound in maroon cloth, with the spine gold blocked "Irish Tramways". £25.003530. Mack, Robert F: Historic Commercial Vehicles. Sheffield: Turntable Publications 1974. 21 by 14 cms, 40 pp. illustrated with photographs, paper covers, v.g. £5.008125. Mance,Brig.Gen. Sir H.: The Road and Rail Transport Problem. London: Sir Issac Pitman & Sons 1941. xvi+166 pp. in very good condition but in a battered, worn dustwrapper. Two small stamps from G.S. Railways Accountants Office. £6.004118. Martin, Nancy: River Ferries. Lavenham: Terence Dalton Ltd 1980. xi+128 pp, illustrated, d.w. An interesting study of British river ferries. £8.008134. Morris, G: The Railwaymen's Year Book 1949 - 50. London: Railwaymen's Publications 1949. 21.5 by 14 cms. 112 pp. illustrated, card covers, in good condition. A book of information and reference forrailway men and women of all grades. £12.006832. Sampson, Henry editor: World Railways 1950-51 A Survey of the Operation and Equiptment of Representative Rail Systems London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co. 1951. 21.5 by 32.5 cms.First edition. each section is separately paginated, c. 596 pp. ffep has an old fold otherwise in very good condition. Later retitled as Jane's World Railways. A heavy item with implications for postage. £45.008260. Sampson, Henry. general editor.: The Dumpy Pocket Book of Veterans of Road, Rail, Sea and Air. London: Sampson Low Marston & Co. 1960. 10.5 by 12.5 cms. 189 pp. illustrated, very good in a price clipped, v.g. dustwrapper. A handy little pocket reference book. £5.008133. Warren, Rev. Issac: An Elementary Treatise on Heat and the Steam Engine. Dublin: Hodges Figgis & Co, London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. 1895. vi+326 pp. 19 x 12.5 cm. 95 diagrams. Green boards in very good condition. The top part of the ffep has been removed, but the remainder bears an inscription, "with the author's compliments." Cut-a-way diagram of North Eastern Railway express passenger engine. Rev Warren was a mathematical scholar at Trinity College Dublin. A scarce item. £20.003531. Webb, Ben: Locomotive Engineers of the G.W.R. London: Ian Allen 1946. 18 by 12.5 cms. 31pp. illustrated, a little wear but good. paper covers. £5.008149. Williams, Archibald: Engineering Feats. London: Thomas Nelson & Sons n.d. c.1920. 27 by 21 cms. 263 pp illustrated with photographs, drawings and colour plates, decorative front board, in very good condition. £12.007935. Williams, David L.: Docks and Ports: 1 Southampton. London: Ian Allan 1984. 96 pp. illustrated, hardback. A useful series covering the history of British docks and ports. £7.008259. Worthington-Williams: Collins Transport Series Cycles and Motorcycles. Glasgow and London: Collins 1976. 29 by 22 cms. 62 pp. Illustrated by Max Ansell, Mike Atkinson, Richard Hook. Laminated pictorial covers, in very good condition. £5.00 |
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