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NATIONAL BUS COMPANY 1968-1989 A COMMEMORATIVE VOLUME
Written by John A. Birks; Yvonne Brittan; Keith A.S. Dickie; Tony Beetham.
Stock no. 1825013
Published by The Transport Publishing Company. 1st 1990. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Colour and b/w photos. 728 pages. ISBN: 0863171478. Some minor mottling to boards. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly edge-creased and has previous book seller's label to rear panel. Musty odour present.

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RT - THE STORY OF A LONDON BUS
Written by Ken Blacker.
Stock no. 1824740
Published by Capital Transport. 2nd 1980. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Thre history of the RT bus and its variants up to the day in April 1979 when the last one ran in passenger service for London Transport. Matt pictorial boards. Large format. B/w photos. 280 Pages. ISBN: 0904711242. Top rear corner of board bumped. Other corners lightly worn (minor). Endpapers lightly browned. Minor foxing to top edge of text block and top margins of prelims. Contents otherwise clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is rubbed at corners, creased at edges, and some minor damp staining to verso.

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BEDFORD AND THE BRITISH CHEVROLET (THE BRITISH BUS AND TRUCK HERITAGE)
Written by Stuart Fergus Broatch; Alan Townsin.
Stock no. 1824617
Published by Venture Publications. 1st 1995. Very good condition.

Title to front board is 'Bedford Volumes 1 Bedford and British Chevrolet 1923-1950. Tracing the Bedford story to its roots in the early years of the formation of the huge General Motors group in America, the foundation of the Chevrolet marque and its transformation by General Motors into the challenger which eventually overtook the hitherto all-conquering Ford as the world's largest producer of cars and commercial vehicles. Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. B/w photos, with a few colour images at front. ISBN: 1898432066. Small knock to lower rear edge. Contents printed on glossy paper and thus some facing pages have stuck together and been prised apart leaving slight surface paper damage (not obliterating any text).

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BEDFORD 1950-1986 (THE BRITISH BUS AND TRUCK HERITAGE)
Written by Stuart Fergus Broatch; Alan Townsin.
Stock no. 1824616
Published by Venture Publications. 1st 1996. Nearly fine condition.

Title to front board is 'The Bedford Story Part Two - 1950-1986'. Continuing the story of Bedford trucks and passenger vehicles from 1950 to the end of the marque as a General Motors product and the sale of the business to AWD in 1987. Large format. Pictorial glazed boards. B/w photos. ISBN: 1898432090. Rear board lightly scuffed. Contents fine.

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LONDON BUSES AND THE SECOND WORLD WAR
Written by Ken Glazier.
Stock no. 1824601
Published by Capital Transport. 1st 1986. Very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The period between the outbreak of the Second World War and the end of the following decade was one of the most eventful and lacerating times in the affairs of London's passenger road services. This book covers the events of the period up to 1950, when the back had been broken of the task of vehicle renewal and London Transport had recovered sufficiently to re-start the tram replacement programme. Pictorial glazed boards. B/w photos. ISBN: 0904711773. Foxing to endpapers else contents clean. Matching pictoria dustwrapper has a few minor marks to rear panel.

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FORTY YEARS WITH LONDON TRANSPORT
Written by Colin Curtis.
Stock no. 1824599
Published by Transport Publishing Co. Ltd.. 1st 1990. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Edited by Alan Townsin and John A. Senior. Large format. B/w photos. 152 Pages. ISBN: 0863171567. Pictorial dustwrapper has a previous seller's price label to front flap and is lightly scuffed to rear panel.

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THE STLs
Written by Ken Blacker.
Stock no. 1824498
Published by Capital Transport. 1st 1984. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The STL was one of the largest and certainly one of the most complex classes of motor bus ever to run in London service. This book is a record of the type's history from its introduction in 1932 to its demise almost a quarter of a century later. Large format. Matt red pictorial boards. B/w photos. ISBN: 0904711617. Top & tail of spine lightly bumped. Lower corners lightly rubbed. Red pictorial dustwrapper is lightly rubbed at corners and lightly scuffed.

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THE LONDON ST
Written by Ken Blacker.
Stock no. 1824491
Published by Capital Transport. 1st 2012. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

The ST followed hard on the heels of the LT class of bus, providing a shorter vehicle for routes that did not need, or could not take, the larger sister. Matt red pictorial boards. B/w photos. ISBN: 9781854143631. Minor bump to lower corners of boards. Contents fine. Red matching pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed to rear panel.

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PARIS IS WELL WORTH A BUS: PARIS VAUT BIEN AU AUTOBUS
Written by Robert E. Jowitt. Illustrated by Patricia Jowitt; Robert E. Jowitt.
Stock no. 1824047
Published by Jersey Artists. 1st 1970. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Scenes of Paris life which have now disappeared forever. Large format. B/w photos. Text in English and French. Buses In Paris. ISBN: 090184506X. Top edge of boards lightly sunned from cream to white. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is edge-worn with a few closed tears repaired with tape. Musty odour present.

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MERCEDES-BENZ: LASTWAGEN UND OMNIBUSSE 1886-1986
Written by Werner Oswald.
Stock no. 1823989
Published by Motorbuch Verlag. 2nd 1987. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

2 Auflage (2nd edition). Blue cloth boards, silver title to spine. B/w photos. Text in German. ISBN: 3613010410. A few minor white spots to boards. Grey dustwrapper is lightly scuffed. Faint musty odour present.

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EARLY BUS SERVICES IN ULSTER
Written by M.L. Kennedy; D.B. McNeill.
Stock no. 2140877
Published by Institute Of Irish Studies. 1st 1997. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Blue boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 085389697X. Foxing to outer page edges. Wrapper is edge-creased with some grubby marks; foxed to verso.

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STEEL WHEELS AND RUBBER TYRES VOLUME ONE
Written by Geoffrey G. Hilditch.
Stock no. 2140806
Published by The Oakwood Press. Circa 2003. Slightly better than very good condition.

Transport around Oldham in the 1930s; Locomotives at Gorton in the 1940s; Leeds trams in the 1950s. Oakwood Reminiscences RS10. Pictorial card wraps. B/w photos. ISBN: 0853616140. Light wear to cover edges. Browning and a few marks to outer page edges.

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