Transportation

Say `Sleeping Beauties' to committed car enthusiasts and they will immediately know what you're talking about: a world famous 1980s photo series, showing an extraordinary collection of classical automobiles rusting away in a French barn, neglected by...

Every day there are tens of thousands of transoceanic flights. In the 1930s, the invention of planes able to traverse the Atlantic changed the world. However, there were already aircraft crossing vast oceans over a decade earlier. Lighter than air, these...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840339222Author Alan BrotchieFormat PaperbackImprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906008666Author Vic MitchellFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton Press

For most of the past century, beautiful models of airliners have been made to promote their airlines' services in travel agents and their own shops. The models also illustrate the evolution of airliner design over these decades: the wood and fabric...

Advertising on public transport in the UK has been common practice since the early days of the horse-drawn bus. Vehicle sides were a good means of advertisers' products being seen across cities and towns and brought in additional income to operators. The...

2010 marked the 50th anniversary of the Severn Railway Bridge disaster. Read about it and other disasters in this book.Book InformationISBN 9780752423838Author Chris WittsFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854144416Author Antony Badsey-EllisFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Capital Transport PublishingPublisher Capital Transport Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995619081Author Stan HendersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Stanley HendersonPublisher Stanley HendersonWeight(grams) 218g

Imagine driving 16,000 miles in 25 days over some of the roughest terrain in the world, at altitudes up to 16,000 feet, where engines and lungs gasp for air. Imagine 500-mile speed trials over rocky mountain tracks, racing against the clock and 95 other...

After forty years of adventuring around the world's remaining steam railways, Keith Strickland has compiled the very best of his vast collection of railway photographs. From Austria to Zimbabwe and beyond, this book, the fifth of his photographic albums,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642494877Author V M Govind KrishnanFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Notion Press, IncPublisher Notion Press, IncWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm)...

The Midwestern state of Illinois, known as the Prairie State, is not known for its varied topography, but this mostly flat land was indeed very conducive to the construction of railroads. It is located at a place where east meets west as railroads...

When the King's Flight was officially formed in 1936, passenger flying was very much in its infancy. Creating the Royal Flight was a most innovative action by King Edward VIII, although members of the Royal Family had enjoyed a passion for flying almost...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857945171Author Henry ConnFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media Group

It was often joked that Swindon Works' men came with 'GWR' stamped on their bottoms, so much so that even in the BR era they considered themselves Great Western! Those who worked 'Inside' as locals called it, possessed a fierce price in their work and in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840338089Author Ray FinchamFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 173mm * 240mm * 4mm

The result of over fifty years' research, this book celebrates the 120th anniversary of the opening of Britain's most successful tramway - the eight-mile Tramroad between Blackpool and Fleetwood. Opened in 1898, the line consistently paid a 61/2%...

In 1895, Joshua Slocum, the first man to sail alone around the world, scattered thumbtacks on the sole of Spray to repel an attack by intruders on Tierra Del Fuego. In December 2001, an attack on Sir Peter Blake's yacht in Brazil resulted in his death...

Covers the various types of motorcycles used by the Wehrmacht during WWII.Book InformationISBN 9780887406850Author Horst HinrichsenFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Schiffer Publishing LtdPublisher Schiffer Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 503g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904474302Author Mitchell VicFormat 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 9781910356296Author Adrian HartlessFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton Press

During the 1960s, the automobile finally secured its position as an indispensable component of daily life in Britain. Car ownership more than doubled from approximately one car for every 10 people in 1960 to one car for every 4.8 people by 1970...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781613255476Author Eric LeClairFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint CartechPublisher CartechWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840338935Author Stuart EmmettFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake Publishing

The first transcontinental railroad in the USA was completed in 1869. In the following years, until the turn of the twentieth century, many more railroads were built by different companies. Passenger trains declined from the 1950s and today there is only...

At the forefront of innovation and development in the rail world, the Southern Railway was the only main-line railway to embrace electrification wholeheartedly, creating what was at the time the world's largest electric suburban network. It was also the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857943795Author Malcolm RanieriFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media Group

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781613255179Author Matt CoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint CarTech IncPublisher CarTech Inc

The Birmingham Canal Navigations lie at the heart of the British canal network and have a rich heritage that spans over two centuries. The BCN network developed over a period of one hundred years and served the busiest and most concentrated industrial...

Buying a classic bike is an expensive business and mistakes can prove costly financially and in time, effort and stress. Wouldn't it be great if you could take an expert with you? With the aid of this book's step-by-step guidance from a marque...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911262077Author Ian SixsmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Irwell PressPublisher Irwell Press

Its every motorcyclists dream. A friend or acquaintance says, You know, theres an old bike thats been sitting in this garage for years. The hunt is on. And rather than the usual worthless Hondazukimaha pile of hopeless oxidation, at the back of that barn...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857944969Author Derek DoddsFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media Group

Roughly moving around the town along the old 'figure of eight' electric tram route that opened in 1906, this book rediscovers the lost world of the horse-drawn and electric trams through to trolleybuses and motorbuses operated by South Shields...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857945133Author David ClarkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media GroupDimensions(mm) 169mm * 238mm * 5mm

A second hand Volvo ...really? Yes! Forget about what you thought you knew - the right 700 or 900 series could be the best car you've ever bought, and this book is your essential guide to finding, assessing and buying the best car for you. Packed with...

J. Samuel White & Company was the oldest firm on the Admiralty List and built 252 ships for the Royal Navy alone. The yard's closure in 1966 ended 300 years of shipbuilding during which time the company had gained acclaim from mercantile and naval...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorThe author has been a Reliant enthusiast since owning his first 3-wheeler in 1990. Since then his passion in the subject has grown and he has become the web...