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Cab drivers are living proof that practice does not make perfect.


- Howard Ogden


70838 CONCEPT CARS by Jon Stroud


The BAT9’s enormous rear fins display some of the most avant- garde automotive styling ever seen. Here is Pinin Farina’s outstanding 1947 creation, the Cisitalia 202, pictured in red, of course, the 1935 Jaguar SF, the incredible Bugatti Elektron Aérolithe concept of 1935 and the jet powered-looking 1951


Buick LeSabre, and we are not even up to page 40! Stroud takes us on a fast-moving journey past the most iconic concept cars through space-age stylings of the 1950s, the wedge-shaped super cars of the 70s and on to the green-living family friendly designs of the new millennium with skateboard chassis, interchangeable bodywork and rotating compartments for making simple parking and access easy. 304pp in compact hardback glossy colour photos. £9.99 NOW £3.50


69123 REGIONAL STEAM: Around Britain in the 1950s by Brian Morrison


In 1951, with his demob gratuity the author bought an Agfa Isolette camera, revolutionary for him as its lightning (for those days, anyway) 1/500 second shutter speed allowed him to freeze moving trains for the first time. Here presents a favourite steam selection from almost 60 years at the lineside, some 240 b/w images which will stir the blood of any transport historian. The book is arranged by region: Western, Southern, Midland, Eastern, North Eastern and Scottish, with each represented in roughly equal measure. Each photo is fully captioned with name, number, date, location and lots of other interesting information. We see the record breaking 60022 “Mallard” and various other Pacific A4s tearing up and down the country, right down to the lowliest tank engines. 128pp softback, 8¼”×11¾”. £14.95 NOW £5


69263 DONCASTER’S ELECTRIC TRANSPORT by Peter Tuffrey


Intended as a nostalgic recollection of the 61 years of electric transport in Doncaster, as well as a glimpse of the many interesting features and incidents of daily life. Here are reminders of Doncaster in 1902 when trams first appeared, as it underwent its first major change from a small market town into a centre of industrial importance. Here are descriptions of the First World War, when the trams were staffed almost entirely by women and cars were fitted with a snow broom, a warning gong and a salt and sand trailer rebuilt from a York horse-car! 128 paperback pages packed with archive b/w photos and map.


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70167 ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF BRITISH


STEAM RAILWAYS: The Legacy of the Steam Locomotive by David Ross


To sum up the joys of this volume, it contains an engaging text written by an established steam railway expert, hundreds of beautiful photos, detailed specification tables of all the


most important locomotives, and profiles of famous railway engineers and companies. It is a showcase of all that steam railways achieved over the years, from the basic design of Richard Trevithick’s engine in 1804 through Stephenson’s groundbreaking rocket in 1829, and the opening of the Liverpool-Manchester line in 1830, to the golden era of train travel in the early 20th century. Here is everything a train enthusiast could want, from engines and signal boxes to platforms and signs. There are also informative boxed features profiling famous designers such as Daniel Gooch, John Ramsbottom and Sir William Stanier. 320 pages 27 x 21cm, absolutely bursting with colour and b/w photos, glossary, map, artworks and time line. £20 NOW £6.50


69796 STILL STEAMING by John Robinson


Subtitled A Guide to Britain’s Standard Gauge Steam Railways 2011-2012, this is the very latest edition in this excellent series, well laid out in A-Z format from Alderney Railway, Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway to Yeovil Railway Centre. For each there are full details including address and directions, year formed, location of line and length of line, number of steam locos and other locos, number of members, annual membership fee, gauge and website. 96pp with b/w photos. £7.99 NOW £3


70316 TRACTORS OF THE WORLD by Mirco De Cet


You will find yourself caught up in a fascinating exposé of the history of tractors from early steam-driven traction engines to the versatile and sophisticated machines of today, with on-board computers, auto- steer and global satellite positioning systems. We kid you not! Here are the most beloved makes from John Deere, Fordson and Allis-Chalmers to Massey Ferguson, SAME and the Japanese Kubota, as well as Aultman-Taylor, Case, Deutz, Froelich and many more. The ultimate working partnership between man and machine. 128 pages 31cm x 22cm colour with b/w archive photos, prints and engravings. £12.99 NOW £5.50


70830 BRITAIN’S HISTORIC SHIPS: A Complete Guide to the Ships that Shaped the Nation by Paul Brown


From Dundee to Plymouth, the Bristol Channel to the Thames, Britain’s ports and waterways display an exceptional collection of preserved ships and boats ranging from the mighty First Rate ship-of-the-line Victory to humble harbour craft. The majority are open to the public, and each one has a unique story to tell. From those that have taken part in great naval battles and campaigns - Trafalgar, D-Day and Dunkirk, the Falklands and the Gulf War - to those which represent superb feats of engineering or technology such as the Cutty Sark, RRS Discovery, HMS Belfast and Oberon class submarines and Thames barges, the steamship Great Britain and HMS Warrior - they represent the very best of our maritime heritage. 208 very large format pages illustrated with a stunning collection of artworks, specially commissioned colour photography, and period black and


white images, including a list of website links and appendix of another 50 vessels and all listed on the National


Historic Ships Register.


£20 NOW £10


69268 MV BALMORAL: The First 60 Years by Alistair Deayton and Iain Quinn Here is a celebration of the first 60 years of MV Balmoral’s career. She operated in the Red Funnel fleet for 20 years. Then, moving to Bristol, she became the last vessel purchased by P&A Campbell for the pleasure steamer services down the Bristol Channel and across to Wales. As well as service in the South West, she was used in North Wales, even making sailings to Douglas in the Isle of Man, where she was used to serve as a tender to Swedish American Line, Kungsholm. In conjunction with her stable-mate Waverley Balmoral she now operates over a wide area on the Clyde, the Thames, North Wales and the South Coast. 160 paperback pages, colour. £14.99 NOW £5


70144 TORNADO: 21st


Century Steam by Jonathan Glancey In 1990 a group of ordinary people came together to share an extraordinary ambition: to construct a brand new Peppercorn A1 Pacific steam locomotive. Unfortunately, none of these magnificent East Coast express engines had survived British Rail’s merciless cull of steam


in the 1960s. 18 years later, this incredible dream was fulfilled when 4-6-2 No. 60163 Tornado made its debut on the main line. The project had over 2,000 regular supporters who, far from resting on their laurels, are now pressing ahead with plans for an even more powerful locomotive that is also just a memory: a P2 2-8-2 created by Flying Scotsman and Mallard designer Sir Nigel Gresley. In this volume, the author has painstakingly researched the complete history of the class, and how the A1 Steam Locomotive Trust overcame its critics with a model example of willpower, teamwork, skill and sheer hard graft. 207 pages 25cm x 29cm illus in colour and b/w. £24.99 NOW £10


69307 AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF TRAINS: From Steam Locomotives to High- Speed Rail by Franco Tanel


Posters of the Art Deco era proclaim the excitement of trains such as the Flying Scotsman, the Golden Arrow and the Simplon-Orient Express, while fascinating archive photos show the track of the Trans-Siberian railway being laid at the end of the 19th century. Other iconic engines are the distinctive British A4 class Mallard, South Africa’s Gigantic Garrats and the Amtrak Superliner. The final chapters takes us into the diesel age and the era of high-speed trains, featuring the Eurostar, the Ghan Railway of Australia, the Thailand- Singapore Express, the Pride of Africa and Peru Rail. 319pp, large softback. £15.99 NOW £5.50


69617 FOR THE WORLD’S BEST DRIVER:


A Glovebox-full of Fun for the Expert Behind the Wheel by Mike Haskins and Clive Whichelow


Packed with jokes, anecdotes, trivia, quotes, outrageous rules and regulations, classic motoring blunders, tragic personalised plates, wit, wisdom and even some advice, anybody who has spent time behind the wheel and wondered why will


find this irresistible. For example, did you know that the original prototype for the VW Beetle or KdF-Wagen, the car forever associated with the rise of Hitler, was called the May-Beetle and was constructed in 1931? Did you also know that its designer, Josef Ganz, was Jewish? 192pp, b/w illus. £9.99 NOW £3.50


69540 BLUEBELL RAILWAY: Five Decades of


Achievement by Michael Welch With nine miles of track crossing the East and West Sussex border from Horsted Keynes to Sheffield Park and two locomotives acquired from BR, the Bluebell now boasts an extension to its track and a collection of vintage locos and coaches bettered in number only by the National Collection - except that the Bluebell’s are working machinery! Using over 350 of the best photos (all colour) ever taken by staff, press and visitors and with a text detailing the Railway’s history and captions of the photos by the author assisted by an army of his Bluebell colleagues. See plumes of steam created in the icy air by Mogul No.1638 pulling the 11.36 Santa Special up Freshfield Bank. The book is split into five decade chapters, and arranged chronologically within chapters. 112pp, 9"×10". £16.95 NOW £8


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69973 COMPLETE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FLIGHT 1848-1939


A Comprehensive Guide to Aviation by John Batchelor and Malcolm Lowe A renowned aviation historian and a world-famous technical artist join forces to bring to life the stories of over 100 ground-breaking airplanes dating from the early days of flight to the start of the Second World War. Many centuries before the Wright brothers left the ground in their incredibly fragile-looking craft, Leonardo da Vinci was experimenting with the idea of flight and, in the 1780s, the Montgolfier brothers were doing pioneering work with balloons, but it was actually Sir George Cayley who succeeded in getting a man into the air for the first time with an aircraft-like contraption. The ‘pilot’ was his coachman, who was singularly unimpressed and resigned his employment immediately! A gem of a book. 303 pages packed with superb, rare colour and b/ w photos and technical drawings. £12.99 NOW £6.50


70117 ADVENTURES OF THE HEBE: Sailing on Britain’s Canals Between the Wars by Desmond Stoker and Simon Stoker The observations and photos in this endearing book also document parts of the canal system which have long since disappeared, rendering this volume historically valuable as well as fascinating. Even though much of the canal system was still accessible and operational in the late 1920s, holidaying on them was confined mainly to a few eccentrics and enthusiasts. But the author’s father and grandfather enjoyed long trips on these under- appreciated waterways, trips that often extended well over 200 miles and lasted for several weeks. From Barton under Needwood to Burton on Trent and from Shugborough Hall to Upton on Severn, you will love these delightful voyages. 192 paperback pages illustrated in b/w with maps, author’s preface and historical miscellany. £16.99 NOW £6


70143 TOP-DECK TRAVEL: A History of Britain’s Open-Top


Buses by Philip C. Miles This book recaptures some of that wonder as an author and bus enthusiast collates many most unusual descriptions and photos of the days when buses ordinarily had an open top-deck and when people would feel deprived if they were relegated to the lower regions.


Here, from London and the south coast to the north and Scotland, is the history of these exciting vehicles from the early 1900s onwards to the sad time when most of them have been relegated to the annals of history. Here is the rather frightening steam omnibus, there the first motorbus purchased by Newcastle Corporation in 1912 and, by complete contrast the svelte Volvo B7TLs to be seen in the city of Bath. 127 paperback pages, colour and b/w.


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70137 ON THE TRAIL OF THE ROYAL SCOT by David Packer


The ‘Royal Scot’ London Midland express was designed to steam non-stop from Euston to Glasgow and the inaugural run was on 11 July 1927. Initially there was an engine change at Carnforth and a division of the Glasgow and Edinburgh portions at Symington but the winter timetables saw non-stop working from London to Carlisle using the newly built ‘Royal Scot’ class engines and claiming the British record for non-stop running, though that was soon beaten by the London North Eastern Region service to Edinburgh, the ‘Flying Scotsman’. This fascinating book with over 100 archive photos shows engines on the route at every stage, starting with the gentle Home Counties section from London to the Chilterns, then through the industrial areas of Crewe and Preston and up into the mountains with big climbs over Shap Fell and Beattock. An appendix shows the routes of diversions. The Stanier streamlined ‘Coronation Pacifics’ appeared in 1937 with their art deco livery and could cover the 401 miles to Glasgow in six and a half hours. 150pp, over 100 photos. £19.99 NOW £7.50


70122 BRIGHTON BELLES: A Celebration of Veteran Cars


by David Burgess-Wise Celebrated every year in the famous London to Brighton run, veteran motor cars represent the very dawn of motoring, from the middle of the 19th century up until the end of 1904. Daimler-Benz were the ‘petrol pioneers’, followed


in quick succession by Panhard and Levassor, Fiat, and Peugeot. All the famous marques are lovingly described and represented here in archive photos and gorgeous colour. At the start of the 1880s there were just a few primitive horseless carriages, whose optimistic inventors were happy if they moved at all but, by the end of the veteran period, the car had become a viable means of transport. 208 large pages with superb colour and archive b/w photos. £25 NOW £6


70130 FERRIES OF THE LOWER THAMES by Joan Tucker


The author takes us on a magnificent voyage down the Royal Thames from Staines to Yantlet Creek, near Gravesend. En route, she tells the story of each ferry, most now replaced by bridges, including those that have appeared in more recent years as well as the ones on long-established routes such as the Woolwich Ferry. In addition, the tale is linked in with that of the Watermen, the ferry-boat operators, as well as with some of England’s engineering marvels such as the tunnels like that at Dartford that substituted for the ferries on some routes. A nostalgic and historical journey. 222 paperback pages illustrated in b/w with maps. £19.99 NOW £6


70133 HISTORIC SHIPS: The Survivors by Paul Brown


The National Historic Vessels Register mainly consists of about 1,000 boats such as tugs, fishing boats, cargo vessels, tankers, steam yachts and pleasure boats, many of which can still be visited or even sailed on and all of which are over 50 years old. This volume focuses on around 100 of the smaller powered vessels, mostly over 60 feet in length. The tug Wendy Ann, built in 1934, is still in daily use in the Isle of Man, and is


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70949 MAPPING THE CITY: From Antiquity to the 20th Century by C. J. Schüler


Ever since its emergence in Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley around 10,000 years ago, the city has had many personalities, and today accommodates half of humanity. These 200 or so maps, the most significant and beautiful in the Royal Geographical Society’s superb collection, show us how Man conceived and designed the town, chronicling both a crescendo of expansion and improvement and an increasingly sophisticated understanding of the urban environment. From the clay tablets of the Babylonians through the magnificent bird’s eye perspectives of the Renaissance, to the precise scale maps of the 20th century, these examples record ownership, glorify achievement, help people find their way around, chart poverty and wealth, help to plan social improvements, or simply entertain and amuse. We are whisked on a journey to capital cities, princely residences, manufacturing centres and market towns across the globe from Jerusalem, Istanbul, Jakarta, Edinburgh and New York in great detail, each map a window on the world. Covers Ancient and Medieval Cities 1500BC-1550AD, The Renaissance City 1550- 1662 including Byzantium, The World Detailed 1660- 1750, The Age of Revolution and The Enlightenment 1750-1830 and The Industrial City 1830-45 including urban transport. Truly a spectacular in the quality of reproduction and detail, the text is in three languages, and many of the examples in glorious colour. 320 heavyweight massive pages measuring 13" x 16" tall. In protective cardboard wrapping for safe mailing and great value.


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70950 MAPPING THE WORLD by C. J. Schüler


384 spectacularly heavy, giant pages, 13½” wide by nearly 16" tall and published in association with the Royal Geographical Society, London, this is a very special Frechmann coffee table tome. ‘Geographical maps are simply indispensible’ wrote the Dutch map maker Joan Blaeu in his preface to his Atlas Maior of 1665. Blaeu was acutely aware of the importance of maps to navigation and trade, but as a commercial publisher he also understood their imaginative appeal to the armchair traveller. The map painted on the wall of the Neolithic settlement at Catal Huyuk in Turkey is more than 8,000 years old and the Roman General Marcus Agrippa had a world map carved in marble and set up beside the Via Flaminia. We can cross rivers and seas without leaving our armchairs and enjoy world maps from Ptolemy’s Geographia, printed in Germany in 1486 and here reproduced in stunning colour across two pages, a 19th century copy of a map of Africa by Juan de la Cosa who accompanied Columbus on his second voyage, a map of the world showing Magellan’s circumnavigation of the globe between 1519 and 1522, a series of more conventional portolans covering North Africa, Spain and the Balearics, faithful and much enlarged reproductions of Münster’s 1546 Cosmographia, famous battles like Trafalgar and Salamis, Cornwall and the English Channel, mariners’ and explorers’ maps, the Dutch settlement a the Cape of Good Hope in a drawing, Amsterdam 1694, Japan 1747, World Magnetic Meridian 1851, Gertrude Bell’s notebooks which led to the present borders of the state of Iraq, a watercolour sketch by David Livingstone of the Victoria Falls which captured the freshness of discovery, an RGS map from 1933 of the Turfan Basin, map showing distribution of Australian Aborigines 1892 and the Rocky Mountains 1842 and the voyage and Arctic


explorations of Amundsen, RGS, 1907. A truly


splendid and very


collectable volume, great value and quality.


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photographed here taking a tow into Ramsey in 2009. Ullswater’s Lady of the Lake, built in 1877, is believed to be the oldest working passenger vessel in the world, though it is now a motor-driven rather than steam vessel. The drag boat Bertha, believed to have been designed by Brunel, gave 120 years of service and is still operational. Starting with paddle steamers and finishing with naval vessels, providing specifications and history for each vessel in addition to numerous archive and modern photos. 160pp, paperback. £16.99 NOW £6.50


70126 BRITISH


TROLLEYBUSES IN COLOUR by Kevin McCormack Smooth, quiet and pollution-free, post-war trolleybuses should have been the transport of the future but between 1951 and 1972 all


trolleybus systems which survived the war were decommissioned. Vehicles from all 38 regions are illustrated. Birmingham’s trolleybuses were the first to go in 1951, and a rare 1949 colour photo shows a No. 18 Leyland bus with Metro-Cammell bodywork pulling out of Carr’s Lane. Ashton-under-Lyne livery had an unusual colour scheme of black, red and cream, and a 1949 scene in Fairfield Street, Manchester, shows a fascinating array of old posters as a backdrop to the buses. A 1950 scene in Darlington depicts two identical blue single-deckers, one of which was later sold to Bradford and rebodied as a double-decker, and in Teesside only six months before closure in 1971 two consecutively numbered Sunbeam W4s wear the bright turquoise livery of Teesside Municipal Transport. 80pp, superb colour photos. £14.99 NOW £5.50


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