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Between 1900 and 1950, Americans built the most powerful steam locomotives of all time-enormous engines that powered a colossal industry. They were deceptively simple machines, yet, the more their technology was studied, the more obscure it became...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599693347Author Haynes PublishingFormat PaperbackPage Count 760Imprint Clymer PublicationsPublisher Haynes Publishing GroupWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853615880Author Jonathan BeaumontFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint The Oakwood PressPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 11mm

The 904, full name Porsche 904 Carrera GTS, was in many ways a special model for Porsche. Due to the unique design of Ferdinand Porsche, the sports car is affectionately called "Butzi's masterpiece" and is still considered by many to be one of...

The Great Western Railway at Swindon, with its highly skilled craftsmen, is world-famous. It has been written about and filmed countless times, and many of its old steam locomotives have been saved from the scrapyards and lovingly rebuilt to run again on...

Beginning in the late 1950s, the Boeing 707 revolutionized passenger aviation like almost no other aircraft, as the elegant four-engine aircraft made it possible to serve intercontinental long-haul routes quickly and economically. This volume in the...

With construction beginning in 1997, the Turbostar family of diesel multiple units are by far the most numerous design of such units introduced to the privatised railway. Over the next fourteen years, over a hundred units belonging to this family have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780760327852Author Jose De MiguelFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Motorbooks InternationalPublisher Motorbooks InternationalWeight(grams) 550g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557885319Author Evan J. SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint H.P.Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 453g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953730407Author David HyattFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint COMRACPublisher COMRAC

In this book, the author takes full advantage of the diversity on offer as a regular user of this rail ticket. It offers the choice of three of the country's main lines stretching north to south across the ticket's boundaries (West Coast, Midland and...

The nineteenth century was a time of innovation and expansion across the industrial landscape, and nowhere more so than on the railways, as the new age of iron, steel and steam, literally, gathered pace. At the head of the race up was the iconic Great...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476773506Author Levi TillemannFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

This album of 160 colour photographs was taken in the Southern Region of B.R., which was formerly the lines constituting the Southern Railway. Bill Reed took the pictures between 1958 and 1967 during a number of visits to stations, sheds and areas...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781613253717Author Greg KolasaFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint CartechPublisher CartechWeight(grams) 463g

The vision of Alliott Verdon Roe and his team in designing and building the 748 resulted in a highly successful commercial airliner, that since the 1960s has been responsible for opening new air routes in many corners of the world. Many of the airstrips...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908174017Author Vic MitchellFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton Press

Curves is a high-quality magazine, produced with love and aimed to be read by all who drive, bike or cycle with passion and seek the joy and adventure of the open road. People who are prepared to shake off their shackles and live their exclusive dream. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857943092Author John HuttonFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media Group

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857945584Author Barry AllenFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 212g

Duncan Menzies flew with the RAF, the Aeroplane and Armament Evaluation Establishment, and Fairey Aviation in a twenty-five-year flying career, seeing the world of flying change from open cockpits and few rules to the jet age, with its complexities and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857041975Author Roger FoggFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint HalsgrovePublisher Halsgrove

The Mini, now an emblem of the Swinging Sixties, was in fact the product of an age of austerity and shortage, a simple design intended to make motoring more accessible and affordable for the average family. Ironically, it would become something very...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840338300Author David SpavenFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 234mm * 154mm * 8mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892878376Author HaynesFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Clymer PublicationsPublisher Haynes Publishing GroupWeight(grams) 668g

Covers the different types and variations of German motorcycles used in WWII.Book InformationISBN 9780887402050Author Stefan KnittelFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Schiffer Publishing LtdPublisher Schiffer Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 363g

Keen to quickly expand during the 1980s, Stagecoach purchased three former National Bus Company subsidiaries during its sell-off in 1986/7 to give it a foothold in the English bus market. Finding this move to be successful, the company then set about a...

The Newport Medieval Ship is the most important late-medieval merchant vessel yet recovered. Built c.1450 in northern Spain, it foundered at Newport twenty years later while undergoing repairs. Since its discovery in 2002, further investigations have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908174154Author Vic MitchellFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854142382Author Michael WelchFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Capital Transport PublishingPublisher Capital Transport Publishing

Fishing the Severn Sea - From Hartland Point to St Ann's Head. The Bristol Channel, once one of the busiest fishing lanes in Great Britain, is a compelling area of the nation's seas to discover, with a unique range of characteristics. In this book,...

Steam on Britain's railways ended in 1968 - and the fifty years since have been a period of controversy and debate; has it been a time of progress and development, or under-investment and political meddling? Some would say that Beeching's cuts led to an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983422242Author Rick DurdenFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Renaissance Aviation PublishingPublisher Renaissance Aviation PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorTrained as a photographer in the Royal Air Force, Phil served for 20 years, mainly in aerial reconnaissance and combat photography. He then worked for eight years...

The 10 miles of the preserved Llangollen Railway was previously a short section of the former Great Western line that stretched from Ruabon, Denbighshire, to Dolgellau, Gwynedd, and further on to Barmouth. Sadly, most of this line officially closed in...

Although the majority of the branch lines of Hampshire belonged to the London & South Western Railway, they offered the opportunity to see a wide variety of locomotives serving both rural outposts and the major towns. In the west of the county, the...

Dynamics and Optimal Control of Road Vehicles uniquely offers a unified treatment of tyre, car and motorcycle dynamics, and the application of nonlinear optimal control to vehicle-related problems within a single book. This is a comprehensive and...

Blackfriars: Theater, Church, and Neighborhood in Early Modern London is a cultural history of an urban enclave best known in the later sixteenth and seventeenth centuries for the incongruous juxtaposition of playing and godly preaching. As the former...

The definitive Porsche 911 Carrera book is back!An enthusiast's book covering the history and development of the Porsche 3.2 Carrera, the very last factory designated 911, from its resurrection in 1984 to final production in 1989, covering design,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904474432Author Smith KeithFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton Press