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A Square Deal All Round... : The History of Perkins Engines 1932-2006 by David Boulton
$70.00 AUD
Category: RARE AND COLLECTIBLE | Series: Landmark Collector's Library
Perkins Engines has commissioned this book to mark the 75th anniversary of the founding of the company by Frank Perkins and Charles Chapman. It charts the growth of the business from the humblest of beginnings to a position of global leadership in the supply of high-speed industrial power. The company, ...Show more
Alldays and Onions - A Brief History by Norman Painting
$150.00 AUD
Category: RARE AND COLLECTIBLE | Series: Landmark Collector's Library
A history of Alldays & Onions Pneumatic Engineering Co Ltd, the oldest engineering business in Britain. The company was created in 1635, but it is perhaps best remembered for its Matchless motorcycles. The book includes tables of chassis numbers of the cars they produced.
Fenland Pumping Engines by K. S. G. Hinde
$60.00 AUD
Category: RARE AND COLLECTIBLE | Series: Landmark Collector's Library
'Fenland Pumping Engines' details the many former drainage engines which powered the wheels and pumps which kept the fens free from flood. The book contains much little known information and photographs, some rare.
The Drainage of the Fens by Richard Leslie Hills
$60.00 AUD
Category: RARE AND COLLECTIBLE | Series: Landmark Collector's Library
This work on the drainage of the Fens approaches the subject mainly from the viewpoint of an engineer. Richard Hills sets the scene geographically and geologically referring to the sinkage which has taken place in Eastern England since Roman times.
The History of Mann's Patent Steam Cart and Wagon Company by John Pease
$135.00 AUD
Category: RARE AND COLLECTIBLE | Series: Landmark Collector's Library
The history of this well known, but little documented steam engine builder based in Leeds.
The Real Wolseley - Adderley Park Works 1901-1926 by Norman Painting
$80.00 AUD
Category: RARE AND COLLECTIBLE | Series: Landmark Collector's Library
In its time Wolseley was the largest motor car manufacturer in Britain. However, motor cars were only part of the Wolseley story and Norman Painting's book also details the company's involvement with submarines, aeroplanes, airships, shell cases, gun mountings, buses, lorries and speedboats.
Windmills - A Pictorial History of Their Technology by Richard Leslie Hills
$50.00 AUD
Category: RARE AND COLLECTIBLE | Series: Landmark Collector's Library
This highly informative book contains some 500 black and white photographs of the various types of windmills and describes their main uses; many of the photographs have not been published before. People do not always realise how much of an influence windmills had on the life and productivity in the worl ...Show more
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