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9003. 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. £11.00


20071. Belfast Tramway Company.: Belfast Tramway Company Pocket Time Table Sept. 1874 and Pocket Time Table December 1877.

Belfast: W.& G. Baird 1874 and 1877 Two contemporary folded Time Tables, 1874 is 12 by 7.5 cm. whilst 1877 is 9 x 5.5 cm. light card, in good condition. The Belfast Street Tramways Company started services on 28 Aug. 1872 from Castle Place to Botanic gardens. These very early timetables are extremely scarce urvivors. £50.00


16190. Bus Eireann: 1991 Daily Calendar with Mottoes.

Dublin: Bus Eireann, 1990. Cardboard bus, 9 x 29 x 6 cm. The calendar, with one pull-off page per day, is mounted on one side of the bus. In original packaging for posting. £10.00


16191. Bus Eireann: 1994 Daily Calendar with Mottoes.

Dublin: Bus Eireann, 1993. Cardboard bus, 9 x 29 x 6 cm. The calendar, with one pull-off page per day, is mounted on one side of the bus. In original packaging for posting. £10.00


13965. Bus Eireann: 1995 Daily Calendar with Mottoes.

Dublin: Bus Eireann, 1994. Cardboard bus, 9 x 29 x 6 cm. The calendar, with one pull-off page per day, is mounted on one side of the bus. In original packaging for posting. £10.00


8490. 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. £5.00


19775. Conroy, JC: A History of Railways in Ireland.

London: Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd, 1928. viii + 386 pp. 22 x 14.5 cm. The publication of John Charles Conroy's Dissertation for the Degree of M.A. in University College, Dublin. This book, is, arguably, the first great secondary source for the history of Irish railways. It is the watershed between books like Holland's The Story of the Irish Railway Problem (1899) and the hundreds of Irish railway secondary sources published since 1928. There are errors of fact, but it is majesterial as an achievement, remembering the sources available to Conroy. Gold-blocked green boards. Ex library, with usual markings. £125.00


19751. Conroy, JC: A History of Railways in Ireland.

London: Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd, 1928. viii + 386 pp. 22 x 14.5 cm. The publication of John Charles Conroy's Dissertation for the Degree of M.A. in University College, Dublin. This book, is, arguably, the first great secondary source for the history of Irish railways. It is the watershed between books like Holland's The Story of the Irish Railway Problem (1899) and the hundreds of Irish railway secondary sources published since 1928. There are errors of fact, but it is majesterial as an achievement, remembering the sources available to Conroy. Gold-blocked green boards, in very fresh condition. £175.00


6453. Dittmar, Hank and Gloria Ohland, editors: The New Transit Town Best Practices in Transit-Orientated Development.

Washington: Island Press, 2004. xiv+253 pp. 23 x 20.5 cm. Twelve essays exploring the key challenges to transit-orientated development, the lessons from earlier projects, and future standards. 63 plates, 10 tables, and 5 figures. Pictorial glazed card covers, almost as new. £15.00


9461. Greer, P. E: Road versus Rail Documents on the History of Public Transport in Northern Ireland 1921-1948.

Belfast: Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, 1982. xx+189 pp. 25 x 16 cm. Illustrated. Hardback in dustwrapper. In very good condition £8.00


9451. Holding, David: History of British Bus Services The North East.

Newton Abbot: David & Charles 1979 . 184 pp. illustrated, maps, hardback in a dustwrapper. Overall in very good condition. Three major bus companies worked this area, United, Northern General and East Yorkshire. £10.00


20903. Horne, J. B. & T.B. Maund: Liverpool Transport Vol 1 1830-1900.

second edition August 1995. 29.5 x 21.5 cm. 152 pp. illustrated, maps, hardback, in very good condition. A major classic study. £0.00


20904. Horne, J. B. & T.B. Maund: Liverpool Transport Vol 2 1900-1930.

Transport Publishing Company August 1982. 29.5 x 21.5 cm. 359 pp. illustrated, maps, hardback, in very good condition. A major classic study. £0.00


20905. Horne, J. B. & T.B. Maund: Liverpool Transport Vol 3 1931-1939.

Transport Publishing Company October 1987. 29.5 x 21.5 cm. 216 pp. illustrated, maps, hardback, in very good condition. A major classic study. £0.00


20906. Horne, J. B. & T.B. Maund: Liverpool Transport Vol 4 1939-1957.

Transport Publishing Company July 1989 29.5 x 21.5 cm. 256 pp. illustrated, maps, hardback, in very good condition. A major classic study. £0.00


20907. Horne, J. B. & T.B. Maund: Liverpool Transport Vol 5 1957-1986.

Transport Publishing Company May 1991 29.5 x 21.5 cm. 252 pp. illustrated, maps, hardback, in very good condition. A major classic study. £0.00


20606. Institute of Transport: The Journal of the Institute of Transport. Vol VII, 1925-1926.

London: Institute of Transport 1926. 24 x 18.5 cm. 373 pp. illustrated, gilt blocked brown boards, in good condition.Issues no.1 Nov. 1925-No.8 June 1926. £15.00


20605. Institute of Transport: The Journal of the Institute of Transport. Vol VIII, 1926-1927.

London: Institute of Transport 1927. 24 x 18.5 cm. 479 pp. illustrated , gilt blocked brown boards, in good condition. Issues No1. Nov.1926 - No. 9 July 1927. £15.00


13963. Isle of Man Railway: Grand Day Excursions handbill.

Douglas, Isle of Man: Isle of Man Railway, 1957. Handbill. 23 x 14.5 cm. Lists the attractions at various stations. Bit missing from top left corner where handbill has been pulled off a filing spike. £10.00


13964. Isle of Man Red Bus Service: Garwick Glen handbill.

Douglas, Isle of Man: Isle of Man Red Bus Service, c1957. Handbill. 23 x 14.5 cm. Lists the attractions at Garwick Glen. Bit missing from top left corner where handbill has been pulled off a filing spike. £10.00


10128. King, William T: History of the American Steam Fire Engine.

Chigago: Owen Davies 1960. 27.5 by 21 cms. 150 pp. illustrated, red card covers, showing some wear, very good contemporary drawings and illustrations. £12.00


9816. Maritime History: Maritime History Vol. 2 No. 2.

Newton Abbot: David & Charles September 1972. Craig, Robert. Editor. 21 by 15 cms. pp.123-232 illustrated, paperback in very good condition. Articles include, The Evolution of International Whaling Controls, Marine Insurance and the Trade of Rotterdam 1755-63, Ship Registry - 1707-86, Sources for Maritime History (II) The Records of The Registrar-General of Shipping and Seamen, Bibliographe de l'Histoire des Grandes Routes Maritimes, A Cunard Guidebook of a Century Ago. £10.00


18940. Martin, Shaun A.: Crewe to Ballywatermoy.

Published by the author, 2016. 299 pp. 23 x 15 cm. A semi-autobiographical novel set in the 1940s, centred on the LMS NCC railway system in C. Antrim. Pictorial glazed card covers. Signed and dated by the author on the title page. In very good condition. £12.00


17519. Newman, Peter & Jeffrey Kenworthy: Sustainability and Cities Overcoming Automobile Dependence.

Washington: Island Press, 2001. xviii + 442 pp. 25.5 x 17.5 cm. Illustrated. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. Pictorial glazed card covers, in very good condition, almost as new. £15.00


11078. O'Kane, Seamus and Anderson, Andrew: The Design Story of the Bicycle.

Belfast: The Ulster Folk and Transport Museum n.d. c.1986. 29.5 by 21 cms. 35 pp. illustrated, softcovers, a little lightish staining to front cover otherwise good, useful photographs. £15.00


20894. Paget-Tomlinson, Edward: The Railway Carriers The History of Wordie & Co. Carriers, Haulers and Store Keepers.

Terance Dalton Limited in conjunction with The Wordie Property Company Limited 1990. 178 pp. illustrated with photographs and drawings, maps, gilt blocked grey boards, in very good condition in a v.g. dustwrapper. £10.00


17518. Richards, Brian: Future Transport in Cities.

London and New York: Spon Press, 2001. ix + 162 pp. 21 x 21 cm. Profusely illustrated in b&w. Bibliography. Index. Pictorial semi-matt card covers, in very good condition, almost as new. £15.00


18102. The Post Office: Speed, Regularity and Security In Celebration of the Royal Mail.

London: The Post Office, 1984. 28 pp. 16.5 x 24 cm. 40 illustrations, many in colour, including 8 full-page illustrations. Glazed pictorial card covers, in good condition. A transparent panel on the front cover still protects the original strip of five 16p stamps issued in 1984 to celebrate 200 years of Royal Mail. £13.50


14651. Tyler, Nick, editor: Accessibility and the Bus System from concepts to practice

London: Thomas Telford, 2002. x+410 pp. illustrated, diagrams, hardback, no dw, slight shelf wear o/w in very good condition. £45.00


14118. Warner, Guy: Flying from Malone Belfast's First Civil Aerodrome.

Newtownards: Colourpoint 2012. 21 by 21 cms. 63 pp. illustrated, soft covers, in very good condition, almost as new. Hidden aviation history. The Aerodrome at Malone was the U.K.'s first municipal airfield. It is now a public housing estate. Great photographs! £10.00


11171. Woods, D: The Fateful Day A Commemorative Book of the Armagh Railway Disaster June 12th 1889.

Armagh: Armagh District Council, 1989. (40 pp.) 21 x 29.5 cm. 37 illustrations. 5 Maps and diagrams. Pictorial glazed card covers. In very good condition. 88 people were killed in this railway disaster, and this study is now increasingly scarce £35.00

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