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+ The Railway Magazine, Volume IV (4), January to June 1899. Ref: S8163

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Large octavo, 576 pages, 6 frontispiece portrait plates, numerous other photo and line illustrations, maps and diagrams. Publisher's original dark green decorated cloth, gilt title on spine. A fine copy of a very early volume of the RM.

Price: £100.00

Holiday Haunts 1947. Ref: S8064

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Great Western Railway.
Large octavo, 656 pages, folding GWR system map in pocket, details of each holiday resort, sepia photos of beauty spots, etc, hotel and boarding house advertising. Pictorial card covers with bathing belle, VG+.

Price: £25.00

The Southdown Story. A history of Southdown Motor Services Limited 1915 - 1965. Ref: S7625

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Southdown Motor Services, 1965.
Octavo, 107 pages, photo illustrations, letter on company letterhead loosely inserted, laminated card covers a little worn and faded on spine, but generally a VG copy. **Celebratory history of Sussex bus company.

Price: £16.00

Accidents In Mines part 1. Ref: S6522

Abel, F A.
Excerpt Proc Inst Civil Engs, 1887.
Octavo, 40 pages, disbound and stapled into serviceable card covers with paper backstrip, VG. **According to Wikipedia*, Sir Frederick Abel was chemist to the War Department and chemical referee to the Government. He was a specialist in the chemistry of explosives, and it is this aspect of mine safety that this part of the paper addresses. (*Who record that he was knighted in 1891: in which case the ICE were embarrassingly prescient.)

Price: £10.00

Steam : Its Generation And Use. With a catalogue of the manufactures of Babcock & Wilcox Ltd. Ref: S7722

Babcock & Wilcox Ltd.
London, 1906.
Tall octavo, 182 pages with photo illustrations and diagrams of generating plant for power stations and industry. Original red cloth rebacked in red calf, VG. **Babcock & Wilcox Ltd was the European arm of the American Babcock & Wilcox Company. Originally in Renfrew, but this catalogue gives an address in Farringdon St, London EC; later they had an office (or works?) in Southwark Street, near Borough Market Junction, where dusty pipework was displayed in the windows. The firm still exists as Doosan Babcock.

Price: £40.00

A History Of Tin Mining And Smelting In Cornwall. Ref: S7702

Barton, D B.
1989, Bradford Barton, 2nd edition, revised.
Octavo, 302 pages, 36 photo illustrations on plates, text diagrams and maps, jacket, near fine copy of a scarce mining history.

Price: £25.00

The Model Railway Handbook. A practical guide to the installation of a model railway. Ref: S7651

Bassett-Lowke, W J.
1945, 11th edition reprinted.
Octavo, 152 pages, photo and line illustrations, some discolouration to the printed boards, but generally a VG copy of this famous guide.

Price: £20.00

Presidential Address (Public health in large cities worldwide). Ref: S6439

Bazalgette, J W.
Excerpt Proc Inst Civil Engs, 1884.
Octavo, 70 pages, recent maroon cloth binding, near fine. **Sir Joseph's address compares public health in major foreign cities with the achievements of London. The address comprises 25 pages; the remainder of the work is a table of remarkable statistics. Seventy-nine major cities are compared with London in terms of population, water supply, sewerage, waste collection and disposal, police, abatoirs and tramways. Here are two examples.
Paris, Pekin, Perth (WA) and Philadelphia are consecutive. Their daily water consumption per head was: 36 gals; about a quarter of a bucket; - - (no waterworks); and 54.15 gals, nearly half of which is wasted. (London: 31¼ gals).
Constantinople does not impress Bazalgette: Cost of cleansing the streets - Nil. Cleaned by dogs.

Price: £30.00

Steam At Work. Road and farm engines. Ref: S6026

Beaumont, A.
David & Charles, 1981.
Large octavo, 96 page album with brief essays introducing each chapter, jacket, fine. **Traction engines, steam tractors, ploughing engines, showman's road locomotives, steam wagons and steam rollers.

Price: £16.00

Traction Engines Past And Present. Ref: S6343

Beaumont, A.
Bracken, 1989, 2nd impression.
Small quarto, 96 pages, album, jacket, fine. **The first edition was by D&C in 1974.

Price: £11.00

50 Jahre BVG 1929 - 1979. Ein Rückblick auf ein Stück Berliner Verkehrsgeschichte. Ref: S7560

Berliner Verkehrs-Betriebe.
Berlin, 1979 : BVB.
Square quarto, 140 pages, photos, maps, some colour, white card covers faintly discoloured, VG+. **Commemorative history of Berlin public transport : buses, trams and U-bahn.

Price: £12.00

Theory Of Fare Collection On Railways And Tramways. Ref: S4859

Bett, W H.
Railway World, 1945.
Octavo, 32 pages + 11 plates (tables, ticket photos) and index, green cloth without jacket, VG+. **Study of British and overseas practice.

Price: £10.00

Yesterday's Golcondas. Notable British metal mines. Ref: S6377

Bird, R H.
1977, Moorland.
Quarto, 112 page album, 137 surface and underground views, long captions, jacket, near fine.

Price: £18.00

Swindon Carriage & Wagon Works. Ref: S2866

British Railways Western Region.
1957.
Octavo, 36 pages, many photo illustrations: interior views with machinery in operation, rolling stock etc, good plan of works, card covers, near fine. **Souvenir guide to the works, nice period item.

Price: £8.00

The Story Of Huddersfield. Ref: S8065

Brook, R.
McGibbon & Kee 1968
Octavo, 394pp, photo illus, maps, jacket, VG. **Commissioned to celebrate the town's centenary of incorporation as a borough, and includes history of local transport and industry. Railways got off to a shaky start with the Manchester & Leeds Rly Co's declaration that "Huddersfield is not worth stopping the engine for"; eventually of course Huddersfield got one of the finest railway stations in the country, not pictured in the book, possibly because at time of writing BR were planning to hand it over to the Council and build a new smaller station.

Price: £20.00

Richard Trevithick, giant of steam. Ref: S8014

Burton, A.
Aurum Press, 2000.
Octavo, 245 pages, illustrations, chapter notes, jacket, fine copy. **Trevithick was the genius who transformed the cumbersome beam engines of Newcomen and Watt into an infinitely versatile source of power which would take the world forward into a new age. Here is a well-rounded and readable biography of the great man.

Price: £18.00

East Cheshire Textile Mills. Ref: S7043

Calladine, A & Fricker, J.
RCHM,1993.
Large quarto, 181 pages, 175 illustrations and diagrams, map, chapter notes, gazetteer, bibliography, laminated card covers, VG+.

Price: £22.00

The Widening Of London Bridge. Ref: S6391

Cole, W B.
Excerpt Proc Inst Civil Engs, 1904-5.
Octavo, 20 pages + 2 long folding plates of drawings, recent maroon cloth binding, near fine.

Price: £20.00

The Trains On Avenue De Rumine. Ref: S7104

Coluzzi, Count G.
1982, English edition, New Cavendish.
Oblong folio, 256 pages, hundreds of illustrations of locomotive and rolling stock models, nearly all in colour, descriptive text. Elaborate cloth binding in red, black and gilt, slip case, fine copy. **A catalogue of the vast model collection of Count Coluzzi, the founder of the Fulgurex model company. Scarce.

Price: £80.00

New Principle Of Steam Engine. Ref: S2806

Congreve, Sir W.
1819, London: T Egerton.
Octavo, 48 pages + 3 folding diagrams. Original card covers, worn on spine otherwise VG. The full title is: A short account of a patent taken out by Sir William Congreve, Bart, for a new principle of steam engine; and also of a new mode which he has adopted for the consumption of smoke in the production of steam, the generation of gas, and in various other operations; being also the subject of a patent. The author is "now satisfied ... of the practicability of constructing a Steam Engine of so simple a form, that it may come within the reach of the ordinary mechanic, not only as to its cost, but in many cases even as to construction by his own hands". Sir William was more famous as the inventor of the rocket as a military weapon.

Price: £150.00

Official Guide. Summer Tours In Scotland: Glasgow To The Highlands. Ref: S2862

David MacBrayne Ltd.
1883.
Small octavo, 112 pages + folding map and 16 plates, handsome gilt stamped boards, with paddle steamer, previous owner's initials bold on endpaper, part of title page missing, with loss of first two lines of index on reverse, otherwise a near fine copy. ** Handsome Victorian publicity, factual details of sailings, boats etc, and enticing descriptions of tours available.

Price: £80.00

The Industrial Revolution In North Wales. Ref: S7516

Dodd, A H.
University of Wales Press, 1971, new impression.
Octavo, 439 pages, maps, jacket, old sellotape marks on endpapers, otherwise VG+.

Price: £21.00

Dow's Dictionary Of Railway Quotations. Ref: S7933

Dow, A.
2006 John Hopkins University Press
Quarto, 355 pages, more than 3,400 entries, jacket, fine copy. **Wide ranging with touches of humour: "They thought of calling themselves Morecambe and Leeds, but decided it sounded too much like a cheap day return."

Price: £24.00

The Yorkshire Ouse. The history of a river navigation. Ref: S5512

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Duckham, B F.
New York, 1968: Kelley; USA edition of (and identical with) D&C publication 1967.
Octavo, 226 pages + 16 pages of plates, maps, notes, glossary etc, jacket, VG. **Account of the improvement and use of the tideway and upper reaches of one of England's greatest rivers. The Ouse was a vital trading route throughout the middle ages, and subsequently had important ports at Selby and Goole and connected with the Aire & Calder Navigation. Even at the time of writing the Ouse carried a greater quantity of goods further inland than any other British river.

Price: £20.00

+ Railway And Other Steamers. Ref: S8164

Duckworth, C L D, & Langmuir, G E.
Stephenson, 2nd edition 1968.
Medium octavo, 432 pages, 102 ship illustrations, histories of individual ships and extensive tabulated lists of ships, their dates and dimensions, jacket, VG+ **A comprehensive record of all ships owned by the railway companies from the earliest times up to the date of publication.

Price: £20.00

Buses Illustrated June 1950. Ref: S6659

Dunbar, C S (editor).
Ian Allan.
Crown octavo, 32 pages, photo illustrations, original blue pictorial paper covers, near fine. ** Volume 1 No 6, in super nick.

Price: £12.00

Buses Illustrated Volume 1 Number 7 (July 1950). Ref: S6122

Dunbar, C S (editor).
Ian Allan.
Small octavo format, 32 pages, VG+. **Commer, Ticket History, The Modern Tram etc etc.

Price: £12.00

Edinburgh Transport Map. Bus routes and city centre plan 1964-65. Ref: S6438

Edinburgh Corporation Transport.
Edinburgh Corporation, 1964.
Landscape, 25" x 35", double-sided, stout paper folded to 4¼ x 6¼". Smaller inner city map and Corporation transport information on the reverse, full page city map on the inside. Extends from Corstorphine to Eastfield and from the Forth to Hillend (roughly the area now bordered by the City Bypass) with bus routes and numbers marked in red. VG+.

Price: £8.00

Saltley Firing Days. Footplate memories, 1950-59. Ref: S6149

Essery, T.
Silver Link, 1994, revised, enlarged edition.
Large octavo, 255 pages, photo illustrations, glazed card covers, fine. **Reminiscences of nine years that the author spent in the employ of BR at Saltley mpd in Birmingham, joining as a cleaner in 1950 and departing as a top link fireman in 1959.

Price: £12.00

Manchester's Trolleybuses. Ref: S4620

Eyre, D M, Heaps, C W & Taylor, C.
Manchester Transport Museum, 1967.
Large octavo, 72 pages + large folding route map, photo illustrations, detailed stock lists, card covers, VG. **Useful history.

Price: £12.00

Manchester's Buses 1906 - 1945. Ref: S7476

Eyre, D M.
Manchester Transport Museum, 1971.
Quarto, 112 pages, photo illustrations, detailed stock lists, card covers, VG. **History of the development of the bus fleet up to the end of the second world war.

Price: £12.00

The Manchester Bus. Ref: S7872

Eyre, M & Heaps, C.
TPC, 1989.
Large quarto, 383 pages + large folding map, photo illustrations, fleet lists, glazed boards, near fine. ** History of the development of the bus fleet and networks of Manchester Corporation.

Price: £40.00

+ West Country Pasenger Steamers. Ref: S8165

Farr, Grahame E.
Richard Tilling, 1956.
Medium octavo, 327 pages, photo plates, detailed ship histories and tabulated list of ships with their principal dimensions and dates, red cloth, a crisp copy.

Price: £20.00

The History Of Scout Motors Limited Of Salisbury. Ref: S6723

Farrant, J P.
Salisbury & S Wilts IA Group, nd c1970.
Octavo, 24 pages, photo illustrations, ex library: stamps on title page / frontispiece, front endpaper torn out, lacks jacket, remainder VG. **Brief history of short-lived factory producing motor vehicles and marine engines.

Price: £12.00

The Spas And Health Resorts Of Central Wales And Neighbourhood. Ref: S4904

Gallichan, W M.
LMS, c1925.
Small octavo, 64 page guide book, folding map, photos, lovely colour card cover, VG+.

Price: £25.00

Castles To Warships. On the Great Western footplate. Ref: S7787

Gardner, J.
John Murray, 1986.
Octavo, 245 pages + 16 pages of photo plates, some drawings of diesels, map, jacket, fine. **Autobiography of an engine driver based mainly at Didcot and Reading.

Price: £15.00

Garraway Father And Son. Ref: S7660

Garraway, A.
Middleton, 1985.
Octavo, 158 pages, photo illustrations, glazed boards, fine. **A double biography/autobiography. Garraway senior worked on the Palestine Railway, and the LNER; Allan Garraway's career included railway operation in occupied Germany, Eastern Region breakdowns and locomotive performance, the first few weeks of the Talyllyn revival, the resurrection of the Festiniog Railway and ends with his "retirement" on the Aviemore Railway.

Price: £14.00

The Durham Miners 1919-1960. Ref: S6526

Garside, W R.
Allen & Unwin, 1971.
Octavo, 544 pages, 2 maps, tables, bibliography, some edge wear to jacket, generally VG+. **The official history; a scholarly work.

Price: £18.00

Hornby Book Of Trains. A reprint of the Hornby Catalogues for 1927-1932. Ref: S6530

Gorham, F R.
OPC, 1973.
Landscape quarto, about 250 pages, glazed boards slightly bowed, slight split at head of spine, otherwise VG. **Alongside the mouthwatering illustrated lists of clockwork and electric engines and their accessories are quite grown-up articles on railway matters. "Goods Train Control: A Marvel of Organisation" and "Modernising a Locomotive: The Re-built "Claughtons" " would probably tax the comprehension of the modern lad.

Price: £18.00

Edward Thompson Of The LNER. Ref: S8017

Grafton, P.
Oakwood Press (Oakwood Library of Railway History no.145), 2nd edition 2007
Octavo, 152 pages, well illustrated with photos and occasional locomotive drawings, laminated card covers, square back, near fine.

Price: £10.00

GWR Engines. Ref: S6921

Great Western Railway.
GWR, 1946, fourth edition.
Small octavo, 108 pages + 8 blank "memoranda" pages, illustrated card covers, photo illustrations (mainly works photos, each with a measured drawing and main dimensions), loco lists, near fine. **A handsome copy of the final edition of this GW publicity item.

Price: £18.00

GWR Engines. Names, numbers, types & classes. Ref: S6485

Great Western Railway.
D&C reprint, 1989 (4th impression).
Small octavo, 108 pages, many photos. Glazed boards, fine. **"A reprint of the engine books of 1911, 1928 and 1946 with some pages from that of 1938."

Price: £10.00

The Engine Book. Ref: S3221

Great Western Railway.
GWR, 1935.
Small octavo, 80 pages, card covers, photo illustrations (mainly works photos, with main dimensions added), loco lists, some marks on last page, VG. **Nice GW publicity item.

Price: £19.00

Apprenticeship In Steam. The memoirs of a general engineer. Ref: S6721

Hampshire, J.
Falmouth, 1969: Lake.
Octavo, 152 pages, photo illustrations, card covers a little worn and marked, contents VG. **Scarce. Sequel to I Worked With Traction Engines. The author's father ran a large haulage business using steam traction engines; on leaving school the author entered into an apprenticeship in steam engineering before joining the family firm. His subsequent career included the RN, the merchant navy, and operation Pluto; during the war he erected steam sawmills.

Price: £18.00

Memories Of Birmingham's Transport. Part Two. Ref: S4628

Harvey (compiler); Glover & Perkins (photographers).
BTHG, 1988.
Octavo, 72 page album, card covers, fine. **West Midlands Transport In Pictures series. Some nice street scenes in this booklet in which tram pictures predominate. There are also buses, trolley buses and a strange lorry converted from a bus body. Plenty of information in the captions.

Price: £8.00

Railway Ribaldry. Being 96 pages of railway humour. Ref: S5560

Heath Robinson, W.
Ian Allan reprint, nd.
Quarto, 96 pages, card covers, VG+. **Originally published by the Great Western Railway in 1935, to mark the company's centenary. An inspired collection of WHR's trademark ramshackle contraptions in railway vein.

Price: £12.00

The Quarries. Ironstone, limestone and sand. Ref: S5656

Hewlett, H B.
Market Overton IRA, 1979.
Quarto, 46 pages, photo illustrations, maps, site plans, card covers, VG+. **A reprint of the 1935 original, which in turn was reprinted from the Stantonian: the magazine of the Stanton Ironworks Co Ltd which was the author's employer. This is a short survey, but a singularly knowledgeable and interesting one.

Price: £18.00

London Midland Fireman. Ref: S8066

Higson, M F.
Ian Allan 1972.
Octavo, 142 pages, photo illustrations, diagrams, jacket, near fine copy. **Octavo, 144 pages + 20 pages of photo plates, jacket, near fine. **Mike Higson's detailed account of his experiences stationed at Lancaster, Burton-on-Trent and Crewe. He rose from cleaner to fireman, and fired all sorts of locomotives from shunting tanks to express pacifics.

Price: £15.00

The Armstrongs Of The Great Western. Their times, surroundings and contemporaries. Ref: S5960

Holcroft, H.
Railway World, 1953.
Octavo, 140 pages + photo plates (incl one colour plate by F Moore), line illustrations in the text, including locomotive drawings, track plans etc, no jacket, otherwise very good.. **The Armstrong family served the GWR for three generations. Joseph Armstrong (1816-77), the locomotive engineer, is perhaps best known. The book studies the family and its background, the locomotive works where they worked, at Wolverhampton, Swindon and elsewhere, and the locomotives they designed and worked with.

Price: £18.00

The Prestige Series. Doncaster. Ref: S7606

Holmes, R & Banks, J.
Venture, 2005.
Three volumes large octavo, each 64 pages, maps, many photos, card covers, fine set. ** Buses in Doncaster. The volumes are titled 1: Independents - the first 30 years; 2 : Independents - from 1950; 3 : The Corporation. Essentially fleet histories, copiously illustrated.

Price: £18.00

A Century Of Traction Engines. Ref: S5352

Hughes, W J.
Percival Marshall, 1959.
Octavo, 262 pages, 181 illustrations (drawings and photographs) in text, some wear to jacket, VG. **Subtitled "Being an historical account of the rise and decline of an industry whose benefits to mankind were and are incalculable."

Price: £20.00

Railways On The Screen. Ref: S5570

Huntley, John.
Ian Allan, 1993.
Small quarto, 205 pages, plus illustrations. Jacket. Near fine. **The most comprehensive catalogue of pre-1993 railway films available and greatly sought-after by enthusiasts of films with railway content; Huntley lists not only all films with railway scenes but also many of the commercially available videos, giving date, stars, director, and an outline of the plot or topic. Both documentary and commercial movies are included and each film is rated for the amount of railway coverage. Illustrated with some memorable stills.

Price: £17.00

Inchley's Theory Of Heat Engines. Ref: S5473

Inchley, W.
Longmans, 1944, 6th edition edited and revised by H Wright Baker.
Octavo, 455 pages, text figures, tables, charts, jacket, VG. **A scientific work setting out the principles of hot air engines, reciprocating and turbine steam engines and internal combustion engines. There is also a chapter on mechanical refrigerators and reversed heat engines.

Price: £18.00

The Story Of Pickfords. Ref: S7879

Ingram, A.
Roundoak Publishing, 1994.
Quarto, 111 pages, photos, jacket, near fine. **Generously-illustrated history of the well-known carriers founded some time around the middle of the 17th century and continuing to thrive.

Price: £16.00

Dynamometers. Ref: S7861

Jervis-Smith, F J.
Constable, 1915.
Octavo, 267 pages, illustrated with diagrams, drawings and photographs, green cloth binding, ex school reference library, RAF Halton, with stamps and labels but no signs of use, otherwise a VG+ copy. ** The author writes : "It has been my aim to place before the reader an account of some of the machines which have from time to time been invented with a view to estimate the output of prime-movers, and the power absorbed by machines when driven by engines or motors." It is not a book for the non-technically minded and I grieve to note that the withdrawal record at the back of the book does not record a single borrowing.

Price: £18.00

My Life In Steam. Ref: S5295

Judkins, K.
Oakwood, 1970.
Octavo, 71 pages + 12 pages photo plates, hardback, jacket, fine. **The author's experience encompassed road vehicles and industrial railways and Foden Works in its steam heyday. A lively read.

Price: £20.00

The Overtype Steam Road Waggon; The Undertype Steam Road Waggon. Ref: S6302

Kelly, M A.
Goose, 1971; 1975.
Two volumes, large quarto, 147 + 242 pages, photos and line drawings, works lists, jackets, some discolouration of prelims and edges, generally VG+. **Survey of British wagons, by manufacturer, includes sections on on foreign manufacturers, and a substantial appendix on management and operation of overtype wagons.

Price: £65.00

The Steam Lorry. Ref: S6286

Kidner, R W.
Oakwood, 1956, 2nd (revised) edition.
Octavo, 28 pages, photo illustrations, diagrams, card covers, near fine. **Locomotion Papers No 3.

Price: £8.00

On The Steam Engines In Cornwall. Ref: S7004

Lean, T.
Bradford Barton, 1969 : reprint of 1st edn of 1839.
1969 reprint of 1st edn of 1839. 8vo, 152pp, tables, cloth, dw, F. **Performance and efficiency of pumping engines. £18

Price: £18.00

Fifty Years Of Motorbuses 1924 - 1974. Ref: S5485

Leicester City Transport.
1974.
Folio, 42 pages, photo illustrations, card covers, VG. **A brief introductory history is followed by photographs, technical details number listings and disposals of all bus types run by the undertaking from the six 1924 Tilling Stevens TS6s to the 8 Scania BR111DHs so far delivered in 1974.

Price: £10.00

An Index To Railway Model Drawings. Ref: S5098

Leleux, S.
Oakwood Press, 1972.
Octavo, 126 pages of duplicated typescript listing, card covers. With Supplement 1973-4, 37 pages, card covers. Both items.near fine. **A combined index to the drawings in Model Railway Constructor, Railway Modeller and Model Railways.

Price: £14.00

The Trent & Mersey Canal. Ref: S7616

Lindsay, J.
David & Charles, 1979.
Octavo, 182 pages, photo and line illustrations, maps, jacket, near fine. ** One of the Canals Of The British Isles series.

Price: £20.00

The First Sixty Years. A pictorial record of the Liverpool Corporation Passenger Transport undertaking issued on the occasion of the last tramcar running in Liverpool on the 14th September, 1957. Ref: S7334

Liverpool Corporation Passenger Transport.
LCPT, 1957.
Tall octavo, 40 pages, 30 of which are of photographs, short historical introduction, three pages of statistical and other information, cream card covers slightly browned otherwise near fine. ** A nice commemorative item, the covers have an understated design in green and cream

Price: £8.00

The Railway Man. Ref: S7840

Lomax, E.
Cape, 1995 (1st edition).
Octavo, 278 pages, map, jacket, VG. **Autobiographical account of a soldier who was taken prisoner at the fall of Singapore, put to work building the Burma-Siam railway, brutally punished for his involvement with an illicit radio and, much later, re-united and reconciled with the most hated of his torturers. This powerful story is not essentially a railway book but as Lomax was keenly interested in railways throughout his life (and a customer of ours), starting with his boyhood fascination with trains in Edinburgh, railways run as a recurrent theme through the book.
Filmed in 2013, starring Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman; we supplied a Bradshaw for the production. Eric Lomax died in 2012, during the filming.

Price: £14.00

Locomotives Of The LMS Past And Present. Ref: S4018

London Midland & Scottish Railway.
Undated c1932.
Quarto, 51 pages, text + 24 pages photos and 8 pages colour plates, lists, card covers.** A decent copy of an attractive publication often seen in shabby state.

Price: £18.00

London Travel Survey 1949. Ref: S3923

London Transport.
London Transport Executive, 1950.
Large octavo, 48 pages, map, 19 tables, paper covered boards (light wear) and cloth backstrip, some light annotations but generally VG. **The survey was carried out by LT from 3000 sample households within an extended Greater London area together with three 'country towns' - St Albans, Dartford and Reigate.

Price: £20.00

London's Country. Guide No 1: By road, stream and fieldpath north of the Thames. Ref: S4384

London's Underground.
London's Underground, 5th edition, nd (1920s).
Octavo, 104 pages, many good maps, photos, heavy card covers, VG. **Charming guide to pretty places around London, with travel directions etc. "This guide is designed especially to be of service to travellers by motor-bus through London's beautiful countryside... The experienced motor-bus traveller knows that the cost of travelling is less than a shilling for ten miles, and reckons on a motor-bus running about ten miles an hour". There is a companion volume for south of the Thames, which is listed here at #S5822.

Price: £16.00

London's Country. Guide No 2: By road, stream and fieldpath south of the Thames. Ref: S5822

London's Underground.
London's Underground, 5th edition, nd (1920s).
Octavo, 106 pages, many good maps, photos, heavy card covers, pictorial, depicting ancient buildings, VG. **Charming guide to pretty places around London, with travel directions etc. There is a companion volume for north of the Thames, which may be listed here at #S4384.

Price: £16.00

+ A Biographical Dictionary Of Railway Engineers. Ref: S8166

Marshall, John.
David & Charles 1978.
Medium octavo, 247 pages, over 600 entries in all fields of railway engineering, no illustrations, jacket a bit faded but generally VG+.

Price: £16.00

Coach Work By Charles H Roe Limited Leeds. Volume One 1920-1942. Ref: S7088

Marshall, R.
TPC, nd c1970.
Large landscape octavo, 196 pages, 7-page introduction followed by captioned photos, pictorial glazed cloth boards, possibly not issued with jacket, VG. **A pictorial survey of bus building from the twenties to the forties with a brief history.

Price: £20.00

Hydraulic Power. Ref: S6627

McNeil, I.
Longmans, 1972.
Octavo, 197 pages + 12 pages of plates, bibliography and extensive list of sources, jacket, near fine. **From the Longmans' Industrial Archaeology series: the development of the theory of hydraulic power in the seventeenth century, its remarkable growth in the nineteenth and the many ingenious uses for it are scientifically documented in this highly readable work.

Price: £24.00

Devon At Work. Past and present. Ref: S7721

Minchinton, W.
David & Charles, 1974.
Quarto, 112 page photo album with extensive captions and brief notes on each industry, map, jacket, fine. **An intelligent selection of images of the main industries of the county. In the same format as the publisher's various "In Pictures" series.

Price: £18.00

+ Geographical Handbook: Norway, Volume II. Ref: S8157

Naval Intelligence Division.
HMSO 1943.
Medium octavo, 492 pages, 121 photo illustrations, 16 coloured topographical maps, other maps, and a large folding map in a pocket inside the back cover. Green cloth, very good. **One of a series of handbooks prepared for the use of the armed forces during WW2. This volume deals solely with transport and communications of which approx 105 pages are devoted to railways, including a brief history and technical details.

Price: £25.00

William Stanier. An engineering biography. Ref: S8068

Nock, O S.
Ian Allan 1964.
Octavo, 190 pages + 32 photo plates, table of locomotive data, jacket, near fine. **Biography of the CME of the LMS, designer of the mighty Coronation class pacific locomotive and member of the Indian "Pacific" Locomotive Committee.

Price: £23.00

Centenary Of The Opening Of The Belfast & Ballymena Railway. Ref: S6406

Northern Counties Committee.
NCC, 1948.
Duodecimo, 72 pages + folding sheet of company seal drawings, photo and line illustrations, map, ex BR (ER) Staff Railway Society library with neat ink and embossed stamps, a little wear to card covers, VG. **Nice commemorative booklet, with a 35 page NCC chronology, a handsome centre spread map and a description of the journey from Belfast to Londonderry and the towns along the route.

Price: £20.00

Castles. Ref: S5752

Oman, Sir C.
GWR, 1926, sole edition.
Quarto, 230 pages + 94 pages photo plates/map, coloured frontispiece and 1 other coloured plate, 67 line drawings, red boards, cloth back strip, folding GW map in pocket, a little cockled, both endpapers split at spine, front hinges a little weak but holding, otherwise a very good copy. **Note for beginners, this book is about fortifications, not locomotives. It is a guide book, albeit a scholarly one, on a grand scale, and describes castles reachable by the GWR.

Price: £35.00

History Of The British Trolleybus. Ref: S7936

Owen, N.
1974 David & Charles
Octavo, 188 pages, photo illustrations, route diagrams, tables, jacket, VG+. **A region-by-region study of trolleybus systems.

Price: £18.00

Rambles Around The Cambrian Coast. Ref: S3121

Page, H E.
GWR, 1936.
Crown octavo, 127 pages, with photo plates and walking routes, decorative card covers, some spotting to cover, otherwise a very good copy.

Price: £15.00

Rambles In Shakespeare Land And The Cotswolds. Ref: S2974

Page, H E.
GWR, 1938, 2nd edition.
Small octavo, 119 pages with general and walk maps, drawings by Mayo, card covers showing cottages in a hilly landscape, VG.

Price: £14.00

The Life And Times Of Daniel Gooch. Ref: S6398

Platt, A.
Sutton, 1987.
Large octavo, 217 pages, illustrated from contemporary sources, bibliography, jacket, fine. **The GWR's first locomotive engineer was a man of many parts: he was awarded a baronetcy for his part in the laying of the first Atlantic cable, became chairman of the GWR, oversaw the construction of the Severn tunnel and served as an MP for twenty years.

Price: £17.00

A Century Of Progress. A centenary brochure of Derby Carriage and Wagon Works. Ref: S6162

Radford, J B.
BR, 1974.
Octavo, 56 pages, many photos, site plan, signed by author, pictorial card covers (Cuneo painting on front), VG+. **A very nice publicity booklet.

Price: £12.00

The Business Of Travel. A fifty years' record of progress. Ref: S1438

Rae, W F.
1891, Thomas Cook.
Crown octavo, 318 pages, brown cloth, gilt decoration, VG/F. **The early history of the Cook travel business. Inevitably self-congratulatory in tone, nevertheless an interesting read.

Price: £30.00

Clockwork, Steam And Electric. The history of model railways to 1939. Ref: S6863

Reder, G.
Ian Allan,1972.
Square octavo, 216 pages, 490 photo and other illustrations, jacket, near fine. **English language edition of a history first published in Germany. The lively translation was made by C Hamilton Ellis. The history covers model railways worldwide, not just German and English.

Price: £18.00

The Channel Ferry. Advantages and feasibility of a train ferry between England and France. Ref: S2275

Rodakowski, E de.
London, Harrison, 1905.
Large octavo, 236 pages, many photo plates, plans, and diagrams. Original green cloth showing usage, strained on inner joints, contents clean and sound. Scarce. **Detailed proposals based on experience of North American (in particular the Ann Arbor railroad) and European practice. Progress was hastened by the Great War, when the Richborough train ferry was introduced for military traffic. The first commercial ferries were introduced by the LNER (at Harwich) and SR (Dover).

Price: £55.00

The Steam Engine Of Thomas Newcomen. Ref: S5611

Rolt, L T C & Allen, J S.
1977, Moorland.
Quarto, 160 pages, photos, tables, diagrams, drawings, jacket, near fine. **A very readable history of Newcomen's development of the steam engine.

Price: £30.00

Locomotion In Victorian London. Ref: S3777

Sekon, G.A.
Oxford Univ Press, 1938.
Octavo, 212 pages, well illus on plates and in text. Some spotting of foredge and prelims but a good and sound copy. VG. **Pioneering study with wide coverage.

Price: £40.00

James Nasmith, Engineer. An autobiography. Ref: S1625

Smiles, S (ed).
Murray, 1883.
Octavo, 456 pages, plates, portrait, original decorated cloth with steam hammer motif in gilt, slightly rubbed but a good sound copy, VG. **The great machine-tool maker and inventor of the steam hammer. The renowned Patricroft works at Manchester also built locomotives. (During the second world war it was requisitioned as, and remained, an ordnance factory.)

Price: £45.00

Industrial Biography. Iron workers and tool makers. Ref: S6823

Smiles, S.
D&C, 1967 : reprint with additional illustrations.
Octavo, 342 pages, illustrated, jacket, VG+. **Includes Dud Dudley, Yarranton, the Darbys, Huntsman, Cort, Mushet, Neilson, Bramah, Maudslay, Matthew Murray, Nasmyth, Fairbairn.

Price: £24.00

The BR Mechanised Iron Foundry, Horwich. Ref: S7841

Smith, S A S.
Institution Of Locomotive Engineers, 1955.
Octavo, 57 pages, photos, plans, diagrams, new cloth binding, fine. **Technical paper abstracted from the journal of the ILE and nicely bound in black cloth. Describes the largest continuous casting plant on BR, with much information on the operation for the production of chairs, base plates and brake blocks.

Price: £20.00

Light Commercial Vehicles. Ref: S6765

Stevens-Stratten, S W.
Ian Allan, 1991.
Quarto, 96 pages, mainly photos, jacket, fine. **Survey starting with the first commercial vehicles, around 1904 and continuing up to the date of publication (C reg), showing the advances made in appearance, carrying capacity and technical progress. The illustrations are arranged by manufacturer, with a brief history of the firm and its products at the start of each section. The author is particularly keen on traditional sign-painting, includes some fine examples and deplores the loss of this art.

Price: £14.00

County Borough, The history of Burton On Trent, Vol 1 Edwardian Burton. Ref: S8019

Stuart, D.
The Charter Trusteees Of Burton On Trent, 1975.
Octavo, 309 pages, photo illustrations, sketch maps, tables, dust jacket, near fine copy. **Includes transport and communications and a brief survey of industry.

Price: £20.00

Scotland For The Holidays. Ref: S5872

SOLD

Sutton, G.
LNER / LMS, 1939.
Octavo, 48 pages plus folding map backed with ticket rates, photo illustrations, enticing text, contemporary illustrated coloured card covers, slightly marked, otherwise a VG+ booklet.

Price: £16.00

Signalman's Morning. Ref: S7132

Vaughan, A.
Murray, 1981, first edition.
Octavo, 177 pages + 12 pages of photo plates, slight wear to jacket, otherwise near fine. **Evocative memoir of the last days of steam on Brunel's line.

Price: £16.00

Magnus Volk Of Brighton. Ref: S7194

Volk, C.
Phillimore, 1971.
Octavo, 240 pages + portrait frontispiece and 16 pages of plates, jacket faded on spine, otherwise VG+. **Biography, by his son, of the remarkable pioneer electrical engineer who built the electric railway along the front at Brighton.

Price: £20.00

The Textile Mill Engine. Ref: S5665

Watkins, G.
David & Charles, 1970-71.
2 volumes quarto, 120 pages + 112 pages with about 150 photographs and matching descriptive text, jackets, VG+. **Pictures from the Watkins archive of stationary steam engines. Watkins was the foremost authority in this subject.

Price: £50.00

A History Of Wolverhampton Transport. Volume One 1833 - 1930. Ref: S7219

Webb, S & Addenbrooke, P.
Birmingham Transport Historical Group & Uralia Press, nd.
Folio, 128 pages, map, photo illustrations, card covers, near fine.

Price: £12.00

+ Garrett Traction And Ploughing Engines. Ref: S8158

Whitehead, R A.
R A Whitehead & Partners, 1997
A4, 144 pages, 127 photo illustrations and technical drawings, works list of engines delivered, laminated boards, as new. **Products of the engineering firm Garretts Of Leiston. They produced a fairly small number of road engines but the book is full of interest.

Price: £20.00

Victories Of The Engineer. Ref: S8070

Williams, Archibald.
Nelson, 5th edition undated (circa 1925)
Crown octavo, 428 pages, coloured frontispiece, many illustrations and diagrams, pictorial cloth binding, near fine copy. **Includes railways, train ferries, ship building, bridges, dams, canals, aqueducts, harbours, tunnels, mining and hydro electric power. Illustration on front board is of a North British train on the Forth Bridge.

Price: £16.00

The Yorkshire Traction Company Limited Jubilee 7th November 1952. Ref: S7345

Yorkshire Traction Co Ltd.
Octavo, 29 pages, some photo illustrations, card covers, slight bump on one coner, otherwise near fine. **Nicely produced commemorative booklet : glossy paper, two colour printing, with a brief history of the undertaking.

Price: £12.00

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