Transportation

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908174147Author Vic MitchellFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton Press

This family of fast, alluring and supremely elegant cars first appeared in 1958 in the form of the 240bhp 140mph DB4. The response from the motoring press and the motoring public was rapturous, though the price of this handbuilt supercar was beyond the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906008253Author Vic MitchellFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton PressWeight(grams) 172g

This is the story of the submarines which failed to come home in both war and peace. They will remain for eternity as the Silent Warriors of the British coast. In both the First and the Second World Wars submarine warfare transformed the West Coast of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783899559613Author DicE MagazineFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Die Gestalten VerlagPublisher Die Gestalten Verlag

This is the story of how for more than a hundred years steam power played a vital role in the development of road transport. It all began with tentative attempts to build steam carriages by pioneers such as Cugnot in France and Trevithick in Britain, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857942057Author Brian GrantFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media Group

A railway arrived on Anglesey in 1848, linking London and Dublin. It was the great railway engineer Robert Stephenson who ensured that the railway link to Ireland would run along the North Wales coast to Holyhead when he presented plans that overcame the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781873793121Author Vic MitchellFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton Press

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781613255001Author Jerry ClemonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint CarTech IncPublisher CarTech Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Benjamin Franklin Award (History) 2022 and Benjamin Franklin Award (Cover Design (Large)) 2022.Book InformationISBN 9781642340082Author Lee KlancherFormat...

Welcome to the world of miniature aviation, intergalactic style. It's entertainment on the fly for the office, backyard, classroom (don't get caught!), or anywhere there might be a party, featuring 12 Lilliputian-size models that create 63 planes...

The London to Brighton Historic Commercial Vehicle run is one of the premier events in the calendar for preserved commercial vehicle owners and enthusiasts alike. First held in 1962, this annual event has continued to feature every year since. Until 2019...

Rex Conway's first book, Rex Conway's Steam Album, was a wonderful miscellany of images that introduced a remarkable archive of railway photographs. This book takes the reader on a steam-hauled journey on the Southern Region throughout its journey around...

Unlike other parts of the world, Britain was slow to start operating bendy buses and, despite the first ones appearing in service in Sheffield in 1978, it was not until 1985 that the next examples made their appearance, again in Sheffield. Somewhat...

Simon Hall's second book is set in the mid-1970s during the closing years of the golden age of British shipping, when cargo carriage at sea saw radical change and the romance of being at sea in old-style cargo ships came to an end. Hall's account is of...

Here, Volkswagen enthusiast and prolific author Richard Copping examines, for the first time, the complete story of the T4 from the Transporter concept originated forty years before its presence at VW's Hanover factory, through its development period and...

One of the most colorful yet neglected eras in American transportation history is re-created in this definitive history of the electric interurbans. Built with the idea of attracting short-distance passenger traffic and light freight, the interurbans...

The bus scene around Southampton and its surrounding towns in the 1970s and early 1980s was one of change. The National Bus Company brought together the former nationalised Transport Holding Company fleets such as Hants & Dorset and Wilts & Dorset and...

Instant Guides are packed with essential information and useful facts covering a wide variety of subjects from survival skills to stargazing. Portable, easy to use and durable they contain all the basics whether you're studying the subject or just...

In the 1960s, there were still steam locomotives based at Ayr depot and a wealth of branch lines crossed the Ayrshire countryside. Although there was a wave of closures following the Beeching Report, by the 1980s it was decided that what railways were...

The 1990s was a period that saw the last vestiges of old company liveries and fleet names and also saw the slow (at first) dawning of the era of the low-floor bus. In this fascinating look at the bus scene of those years in Kent, south Essex, Surrey,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913390679Author Kevin DerrickFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Strathwood LtdPublisher Strathwood Ltd

Produced from 1959 until 2000, the classic Mini is loved by millions of owners, previous owners and enthusiasts. The Mini's creator, Alec Issigonis, was given a free hand to make a proper small car and his innovative design not only redefined the family...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557882653Author Bruce CaldwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint H.P.Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 416g

Since 1952 former London buses have found new homes across the whole of the UK as well as in over seventy countries across the world, and this book takes a wide look at those that gained new lives outside the capital. Paying diligence to their use in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857945256Author Peter Townsend John StrettonFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media Group

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781493069699Author Susan P. HowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Sheridan HousePublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 762gDimensions(mm) 270mm *...

The story of the ill-fated liner Titanic is one that has been told and retold countless times - it is hard to imagine that there could be any new stories or twists to the tale. Yet Titanic's strong connection with the Midlands is one such story that is...

A history of the water crossings of Gloucestershire from the Aust-Beachley ferry to the smaller river ferries such as at Tewkesbury. It tells the story of the county's ferries through the past 1,000 years, from a time before bridges onwards. Joan Tucker...

'The most striking result produced by the completion of this Railway, is the sudden and marvellous change which has been effected in our ideas of time and space. What was quick is now slow; what was distant is now near.' So wrote Henry Booth of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857942118Author Chris de Winter-HebronFormat 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 9781904474937Author John OrganFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton Press

This book, the first ever written on the subject of Leyland buses in Israel, tells the story of the company's decades-long partnership with the state of Israel. First introduced on a large scale in Israel in the fifties, the Leylands were phased out...

The railways of Spain and Portugal saw steam locomotives working on the main lines until the late 1970s, although in Spain several mining companies still employed steam into the 1980s. Iberian railways were unusual in that they used a wider gauge of 5...

With bygone railway scenes from all over Yorkshire, 184 pictures - 11 of them colour - illustrate the wide variety of diesel locomotives and multiple units to be found in the white rose county prior to the end of British Rail steam on 11th August 1968...

Since the 1970s, London has developed rapidly as a tourist location. A combination of factors have helped to facilitate this - visa-less travel from Europe, cheap flights, faster long-haul flights, greater affluence in key countries like China, and (at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908174451Author 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 9781954525344Author Beryl MarkhamFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Warbler ClassicsPublisher Warbler ClassicsWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...