Transportation

The 1980s was a decade of change in the bus industry. 1980 itself saw the Market Analysis Project (MAP), which, although primarily aimed at subsidiary companies of the NBC in an attempt to recast local bus networks and identify which services would...

The sports cars of the 1950s to the 1970s are fast, beautiful, eccentric and innovative. In recent decades these automobiles not only became coveted collector's items; they also enjoy cult statu s. In an exciting journey through time the volume ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781858952413Author Paul ShannonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media GroupDimensions(mm) 238mm * 172mm * 8mm

Since his work first graced the pages of Cycle World magazine in 1977, Peter Egan has taken his readers on one unforgettable adventure after another. Whether riding along the Mississippi River to New Orleans for a tin of chicory coffee, or flying to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853613312Author M. SharmanFormat HardbackPage Count 80Imprint The Oakwood PressPublisher Stenlake Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781613257524Author Greg BanishFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint CarTech IncPublisher CarTech Inc

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840337730Author John SinclairFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911703235Author Clive RowleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Mortons Media GroupPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 439g

1952 was one of the most important years in Mercedes-Benz racing history; after a 13-year absence, it returned to motor sport competition with an automobile that rewrote the history of modern sports car racing. The 300 SL's debut was the culmination of a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911639756Author JP VieraFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Mortons Media GroupPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 421gDimensions(mm) 295mm *...

This book takes a look at the most popular type of bus - the open-top bus. Although most often associated with the seaside and summer holidays, they often turn up further inland, on tourist services around towns - London being the obvious example. ...

Amid peaceful countryside, past historic towns and through the heart of London, the River Thames flows in an easterly direction for some 346 kilometres from its source in Gloucestershire until entering the North Sea. Over many centuries civilisations...

White Star Line was originally founded in Liverpool in 1845 for travel to Australia but was eventually purchased by Thomas Ismay and transformed into the successful Oceanic Steam Navigation Co. Cleverly merging with Harland & Wolff, the line focussed on...

Through cabbie Jack Clyde's humorous account, the reader gains an insight into the rich variety of people with whom he has come into contact: the famous, the awkward, the shoppers, the emergencies, the crime, the late night clubbers, the mean and the...

At one time, it seemed as though every canyon and pass leading into Colorado's high country was a path laid with 3-foot gauge narrow gauge railroad. Dreams of tapping the riches of mining discoveries in mountain locations made this almost true. But...

The author came to London from Lancashire as a nine-year old, having developed an interest in buses and trams at a very early age. He remained in south-west London for the next forty-five years. As a young teenager he took up locospotting, joining a...

First launched in 1965, the Boeing 737, by many measures, is the most successful and long-standing jetliner in the history of aviation. This volume provides an in-depth look into the story of this extremely significant jetliner and the environment that...

Details the beginnings, life and trading decline of the Stour Navigation from the seventeenth century. This book looks at the circumstances surrounding the construction of the first lock gates and general engineering works that converted the river into...

Drones quite possibly represent the most transformative military innovation since jet engines and atomic weaponry. No longer do humans have to engage in close military action or be in the same geographical vicinity as the target. Now, through satellite...

Who now would link such varied cargoes as slaves, stone, slate, cheese and wine - even shipbuilding itself - with Wardleys, Skippool, Sunderland Point, Silloth, Conishead or Bardsea? More than two centuries ago, shipbuilding was cheaper in the north-west...

The book covers the history of municipal transport in Luton from the first horse-drawn buses and the town's electric trams, through to the sale of the undertaking in 1970 to United Counties, the bus company which dominated services in the rest of...

Variants of GM's groundbreaking family of LSX engines are installed in everything from its most mundane panel vans to its earth-shaking Corvette ZR1. First seeing the light of day in the 1997 Corvette, the LS1 and its successors have proven powerful,...

Why do organisations decline, and what happens when they do? Strategy and Managed Decline: London Transport 1948-87 is a historical case study looking at how London Transport, a world beater in 1948, declined from being an international exemplar to...

This book is an illustrated history of Panshanger Aerodrome in Hertfordshire. Much smaller today than its heyday, it was originally 248 acres acquired by the Air Ministry in 1940. A decoy factory was constructed there to divert enemy bombers from the de...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909328181Author Kevin RobertsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Noodle BooksPublisher Crecy Publishing

The development of railways in Britain came in the 1830s as a result of the needs of industry and of the public eager for the novelty and cheapness of rail travel. As the authors of Wheels to Disaster! explain, these early railways were beset by...

The West of England Division stretched from Penzance in the west to Blackwell Summit at the top of the Lickey Incline to the north of Bromsgrove. Geographically it was the largest of the three operating divisions of the Western Region, and in many ways...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937747275Author Hal HigdonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Octane PressPublisher Octane PressWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 127mm * 13mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857943207Author John StrettonFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media Group

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857945942Author Will AdamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media Group

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588340788Author Milton O. ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian BooksWeight(grams) 1g

In the 1930s, hundreds of barges sailed the crowded waters of the Thames estuary carrying up to 100 tons of every sort of cargo - wheat and barley, coal, gun powder, cement and gravel. These remarkable craft were worked by a crew of two - skipper and...

Dumfries and Galloway - the historic counties of Dumfriesshire, the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright and Wigtownshire - is a largely rural area of south-west Scotland. The main operator in the area since the 1950s was the nationalised Western SMT company but a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857703658Author Paul O'CallaghanFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint SB PublicationsPublisher SB Publications

When Ferrari of Los Gatos opened, few people could afford an expensive sports car. In 1973, the average annual income was $12,686, and a new home cost about $48,000. Motorists in California could only buy gas on odd or even-numbered days based on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781613252468Author Myron CottrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint CartechPublisher CartechWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 8mm

The ever-escalating cost of building or buying a hot rod is leaving more and more would-be hot rodders behind. This book will get those hopefuls off the sidelines by showing how a hot rod can be built for less than the cost of, say, a new Hyundai. Author...

Bounded by the counties of Hampshire, Somerset, Berkshire, Dorset, Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire, the county of Wiltshire has several significant main line railway routes passing through it: to the north is the Great Western Main Line from London...