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A HISTORY OF THE JOINT STEAMER COMPANIES
Written by Sir Percival Griffiths.
Stock no. 1829282
Published by Inchcape & Co. Limited. 1st 1979. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Blue boards, gilt title to spine. Colour frontispiece. B/w photos and illustrations. xvi and 156 pages. Minor foxspots to endpapers and text block. Colour frontispiece is detached but present. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is scuffed, lightly edge-worn and a bit grubby.

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RAILWAY MANUAL No. 4001
No author listed.
Stock no. 1829231
Published by British Timken Limited. 1st 1950. Very good condition.

Timken equipped railway locomotives and how to attach & apply them. Limp boards, red cloth with gilt title to front. Pictorial endpapers, colour illustrations showing locomotives with Timken attachments. B/w photos. Folding plates to rear. 118 pages plus folding plates. Boards a little grubby from use. Contents clean. All folding plates present, some creased at vertical margin.

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MY LIFE AT THE SUNBEAM 1920 - 1935
Written by Norman Cliff.
Stock no. 1829189
Published by Ashley James Limited. 1st 1987. Nearly fine condition.

One man's memories of the company and its craftsmen who built world beating motorcars. Card wraps. B/w photos. ISBN: 0951289101. Old price label to rear cover else a lovely copy.

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TOMLINSON'S NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY: ITS RISE AND DEVELOPMENT
Written by K. Hoole.
Stock no. 1829156
Published by David & Charles. 1st thus 1967. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

New edition with introduction by Hoole. 31st July 1854 - 31st December 1922. Black boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. xx and 820 pages including index. Top of spine lightly worn. Text block browned. Contents clean. Price-cut dustwrapper is edge-rubbed & worn, rear panel is grubby, damp staining to verso (not visible to front). Musty odour present.

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A CENTURY OF LOCOMOTIVE BUILDING BY ROBERT STEPHENSON & CO. 1823-1923
Written by J.G.H. Warren.
Stock no. 1829136
Published by Andrew Reid & Company Limited. 1st 1923. Almost very good condition.

Centenary book. Large format. Green cloth boards, gilt titles and embossed vignette to front. B/w diagrams and illustrations. 461 pages including index. Spine & corners lightly rubbed & worn. Text block browned. Foxing mainly go endpapers and prelims. Else contents clean.

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THE HISTORY OF HOLDEN SINCE 1917
Written by Norm Darwin.
Stock no. 1829031
Published by E.L. Ford Publications Pty. Ltd.. 1st 1983. Very good condition.

Holden Motor Body Builder, Australia. Large format. Red pictorial cardwraps. B/w photos throughout and some colour. 223 pages including index. Covers a little creassed, spine is a little faded and bowed upright. Text block browned, contents lightly so. A few pale foxspots to prelims.

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ILLUSTRATED TREASURY OF THE AMERICAN LOCOMOTIVE COMPANY 1837-1969
Written by O.M. Kerr.
Stock no. 1829008
Published by DPA-LTA Enterprises Inc.. Circa 2000. Slightly better than very good condition.

Includes continued Bombardier production in Montreal Canada until 1979. Large format. Blue glazed pictorial boards. Full of b/w photos of locomotives. 224 pages. ISBN: 0919295355. Spine lightly faded. Boards lightly scuffed. Contents clean.

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CHILTERN RAILWAYS: THE INSIDE STORY
Written by Adrian Shooter.
Stock no. 1828998
Published by Pen & Sword Transport. 1st 2022. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

An insight to the business strategy and its delivery that underpinned the performance of one of Rail Privatisation's greatest successes. Black cloth boards, silver title to spine. Colour photos throughout. 188 pages. ISBN: 9781526792495. A lovely copy in a pictorial dustwrapper with light scuffing.

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BLERIOT IN BRITAIN 1899 TO 1927
Written by Ray Sanger.
Stock no. 1828814
Published by Air-Britain (historians) Ltd.. 1st 2008. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

From Headlamps to Airliners. Bleriot's endeavours to set up his companies in Britain, attempts by others to copy his designs, and the exploits of very brave airmen using his aircraft before the War to compete and promote public interest in aviation. Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. 192 pages. B/w photos and a few colour. ISBN: 9780851303994. Lower rear corner of boards lightly bumped else a lovely copy. Matching pictorial dustwrapper is very slightly faded to spine and very slightly scuffed.

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GENERAL DYNAMICS AIRCRAFT AND THEIR PREDECESSORS
Written by John Wegg.
Stock no. 1828808
Published by Putnam Aeronautical Books. 1st 1990. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Traces the development of 10 companies which eventually led to the production of aircraft under the General Dynamics title and more than 100 aircraft designs. B/w photos. B/w diagrams. 255 pages including index. Blue boards, gilt title to spine. ISBN: 085177833X. Light knock to top edge of boards. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper has a few tears and chips to laminate, worn at corners.

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GRUMMAN AIRCRAFT SINCE 1929
Written by Rene J. Francillon.
Stock no. 1828801
Published by Putnam Aeronautical Books. 1st 1989. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The development and service histories of all Grumman's aircraft from the earliest FF and SF biplanes up to the F-14 Tomcat and the experimental X-29 with its forward swept wing. Blue boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos and drawings. viii and 584 pages. ISBN: 0851778356. Remains of old bookseller's address label to lower edge of front pastedown with some surface paper loss (hidden by the front flap of the dustwrapper). Contents clean. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper has some creasing to laminate and is a little scuffed.

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MCDONNELL DOUGLAS AIRCRAFT SINCE 1920: VOLUME I
Written by Rene J. Francillon.
Stock no. 1828800
Published by Putnam. 1st thus 1988. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

New Edition, revised, updated and expanded. Originally published in one volume in 1979. This first volume covers the history of Douglas and its associate companies, and details all of its aircraft up to the 1967 merger with McDonnell. Blue boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. 617 pages. ISBN: 0851778275. Board edges lightly rubbed. Text block lightly browned. Endpapers lightly imprinted with printers ink from dustwrapper flaps. Else contetns clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is faded to spine and has some creasing of the laminate, corners lightly rubbed.

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