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73165 LOCOMOTIVES IN DETAIL 6: Maunsell 4-4-0 Schools Class by Peter Swift
Bound to appeal to historians, modellers and anyone who cannot resist these monsters of the line, it records in detail the development history of what is widely considered to be the greatest locomotive design
produced by Muansell. It was often regarded as the finest 4-4-0 ever designed and produced in Britain and was the first of the 40-strong ‘Schools’ class that emerged from the southern Railway’s Eastleigh Works in 1930. Named after some of the great public schools - such as Westminster, Merchant Taylors, Harrow, Marlborough, Rugby, St Olaves and Blundells - the entire class was to survive until withdrawal during 1961-2. Covers colour and livery. 96 pages 25.5cm x 19cm full of photos in colour and b/w and 4mm scale drawings.
£16.99 NOW £6
73166 LOCOMOTIVES IN DETAIL 5: Riddles Class 6/7 Standard Pacifics by David Clarke
In 1948, the newly formed British Railways set up a team under R. A. ‘Robin’ Riddles to design and build a range of ‘standard’ steam locomotives for the unified railway network. The design of the BR Standard classes was intended to take the best practice, not only from the previous companies but also from abroad. The 55 Class 7 ‘Britannia’ Pacifics were the first of the Standard classes to be built and gave sterling service throughout the network in the 1950s and 1960s. The Class 6 ‘Clans’ were a later development, sharing many components. Includes a brief class history, together with information on detail differences such as colour and livery and a comprehensive selection of 4mm scale drawings. 96 pages 25.5cm x 19cm, photos in colour and line drawings.
£16.99 NOW £6
72864 ON WESTERN LINES: Oxford to Didcot DVD
We begin this tour in the historic city of Oxford, a station well served by passenger trains including the popular DMUs and loco-hauled Virgin trains in the form of Class 47s. Freight can be plentiful with 47s, 57s and the ubiquitous Class 66 running on various freight workings, even Fragonset make an appearance on a freightliner working. At Hinksey you will find a virtual quarry run by Railtrack. Trains seen here are the 37s, 47s, 57s and of course the 66s and moving south we visit Radley, Colham and Didcot. Filmed between 2000 and 2003, this 60 minute colour film also looks at the 220 Voyager (non tilt), EWS Class 66 and Main Line Class 58. £9.99 NOW £4
73627 OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM US ARMY: Abrams,
Bradley and Stryker by Andy Renshaw and Ryan Harden
This book, as well as providing an exciting, running history of the Iraqi invasion, seeks to represent three of the US Army’s main fighting vehicles involved in the conflict: the M1 Abrams Main Battle Tank, and the M2 Bradley and Stryker
Infantry Fighting Vehicles. Here, in incredible detail is a background to each type of tank, both action and ‘walk- around’ reference photography and a full model build of a representative ‘Iraqi freedom’ vehicle detailing tools, techniques and accessories. There is also a section on improvised explosive devices and the mayhem and destruction they caused to every type of US tank, together with a comprehensive list of kits necessary to build 1:35 models of the vehicles.
128 paperback
pages 30cm by 21cm lavishly illus in colour. £19.99 NOW £5
73265 GIANTS OF STEAM: The Great Men and
Machines of Rail’s Golden Age by Jonathan Glancey
The author laments the fact that the last steam engine to be built in Britain, the beautiful and powerful Standard Class 92220 Evening Star, was the last of its line, and describes in knowledgeable detail the technology and personalities that brought steam transport to that point of sophistication. Evening Star’s designers had all been assistants to Sir William Stanier, the legendary chief engineer of the LMS Railway. In spite of their rivalry, in 1938 Stanier gracefully congratulated Sir Nigel Gresley when the GNER A4 class Mallard achieved the speed record of 126 mph on Stoke Bank north of Grantham. Gresley’s V2 class Bantam Cock made her debut a few weeks before wartime overwork caused his premature death. The book also looks at German locomotives during the same era, their wartime designs driven by the horrific uses to which they were put, and the achievements of Andre Chapelon in France. In America, Union Pacific’s Big Boy was twice as long as the most powerful British freight engine, with over a mile of tubing and a 14-wheel tender. 376pp, photos. £20 NOW £7
72482 TRAMWAY MEMORIES LONDON by Paul Collins
Here is the history and operation of London’s first- generation tramway network, which survived for almost 100 years, from the earliest experiments in the 1860s through to the Last Tram Week in July 1952. The network that the LPTB inherited was the result of piecemeal development by individual councils and companies on which ran a complicated variety of tramcars. One unique feature was the Kingsway Subway, which allowed access from the Embankment to Kingsway via Holborn. 80 paperback pages, 21.5cm x 28.5cm, 150 evocative photos in colour and b/w. £14.99 NOW £6
73613 DIESEL TUGS: A Colour Portfolio
by David L. Williams and Richard de Kerbrech The super pictures in this book are a record of British shipping and UK port life in its heyday. Many of the scenes recorded no longer exist or have been developed beyond recognition as modern maps of the great tidal rivers of the UK will show. Preceding each caption or group of captions is a block of technical and date information relating to the named and featured tug or tugs. It provides: the tug’s name, month and year built, the owners, the vital statistics such as tonnage, length and beam in feet and inches with equivalent metric values, the builders and shipyard location, engine installation, engine builders and, where known, the horsepower output. 80 pages 24.5cm x 19.5cm in glorious colour with list of abbreviations. £14.99 NOW £5.75
73616 EAGLE’S WINGS: Modelling the Aircraft of the Luftwaffe Vol.1 by Nicholas J. Wigman
This first ‘special’ book from Scale Aviation Modeller International. All Luftwaffe modellers should find this volume a useful and captivating work of reference. It includes a listing of colours available to the constructor of the kit, and a concise listing of currently available accessories. The exciting planes featured include the ‘Butcher Bird’ Focke-Wulf Fw 190F-8, three types of Junkers Ju - the Anton, the 88 and the Racher - and three types of Messerschmitt - the Gustav, the Hornisse and the Komet in 1/48th Scale. A book to warm any modeller’s heart. 128 paperback pages 30cm by 21cm, lavishly illustrated in realistic colour with Colour Guide and Accessories, Conversions and Decals. £9.99 NOW £4.50
71250 BALLOONS, BLERIOTS AND BARNSTORMERS: 200 Years of Flying for Fun by Alastair Goodrum
Veteran balloonist James Sadler brought ballooning to Lincolnshire in 1811 with his celebrated flight from Birmingham to Lincolnshire, achieving an average speed of 84 mph which remained unequalled for 100 years until it was challenged by the aeroplane. By the mid-19th century ballooning was a barnstorming entertainment and short commercial flights became a feature of Fenland events. In 1912 the first powered flight was almost brought to a Fenland audience when William Hugh Ewen failed to show up in Peterborough having made a forced landing in St Neots. 288pp, softback, photos.
£17.99 NOW £4.50
73669 VICTORIA STATION THROUGH TIME
by John Christopher Victoria Station is a station of two halves, one built for the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway and the other for the London, Chatham and Dover Railway, with the first of these halves opening in October 1860 and the other following in August 1862. As such, its architecture and design
has always been a mating of two distinctive styles, each with its own booking office, stationmaster, platform numbering and timetable. The original LBSCR station was plain, with a simple iron girder roof, while the LCDR station had a wide canopy roof. This rich history is spiced with international adventure as well as the humdrum of commuter travel into central London. 96 page softback packed with facts and figures, posters, towers and architecture, historic and nostalgic photos. £14.99 NOW £5
71382 CORVETTE ICONIC CARS edited by Car and Driver
Now, for the first time, the editors of Car and Driver magazine have culled the very best of the Corvette’s history from the archives, to relive the whole story from 1956 to 2008, including road tests of hallmark models from the L82 Sting Ray Sport Coupé right up to today’s $105,000 ZR1. There are diagrams of the working of the beautiful engines, statistics, detailed close-ups of the complex machinery and thrilling on-the-road pics of the car that, at best, can hit 100 mph in 7.6 seconds and has a 200-mph-plus speedometer, the limits of which the designers have constantly been pushing. 127 pages 22.5cm by 28.5cm, colour photos. $24.99 NOW £5
71265 HIGH STAKES: Britain’s Air Arms in Action
1945-1990 by Vic Flintham An exhaustive account of the roles of the RAF, the Fleet Air Arm and the Army Air Corps during this (officially, anyway) time of peace. The nine chapters cover immediate post-war colonial, confrontational (ideological), confrontational
(territorial), humanitarian, conflict avoidance, nuclear deterrent, etc, and within each chapter the actions which were carried out are tackled chronologically and in much depth. From the Cold War to the Cod War, the Maldives to the Falklands, maintaining local stability in Greece, Netherlands, East Indies, Empire in Malaya, Kenya and defending Empire in Borneo, plus Suez, Kuwait, Northern Ireland, Korea, the Berlin airlift and Albania, strategic nuclear bombing to terrorist bombing. 250 b/w and 40 pages of colour
photos, such as a Tornado fully banked over, showing its fearsome array of
firepower, and Jaguar XZ118/ Y. 417 pages.
£40 NOW £9
73383 SPITFIRE: Icon of a Nation by Ivan Rendall
The Spitfire is an exquisite flying machine, a thing of beauty, designed and built at the forefront of technology, fast, manoeuvrable and deadly in combat. Here is the story of a unique aeroplane seen through the experiences of those who designed, built, flew, serviced, armed and repaired it in war, and have preserved those few that remain ever since. Although the Spitfire and the Hurricane shared the accolades, it was the Spitfire that emerged as the powerful symbol of national defiance. Its vapour trails high in the summer sky above southeast England were living evidence of Britain’s aerial prowess, the first step towards ultimate victory. Pilots loved it for its speed and responsiveness, its elegance, and the menacing growl of the Merlin engine - which Britons soon came to recognize, and cheer. We just love this book for the quality both of its text and the superb, emotive pictures. 288 pages 27cm x 22cm packed with colour plates and archive b/w photos, with
diagrams. £25
NOW £14 71599 HOW TO SURVIVE THE TITANIC OR
THE SINKING OF J. BRUCE ISMAY by Frances Wilson
Most readers have heard of the notorious J. Bruce Ismay, the Titanic’s owner who, while she was sinking, jumped into a lifeboat with the women and children and rowed away to safety. His reputation would never recover. In this gripping account, using never-before- seen letters written by Ismay to the beautiful Marian Thayer, a first-class passenger with whom he had fallen in love on the voyage, the author explores his desperate need to tell his story, to make sense of the horror of it all and to find a way of living with the consciousness of lost honour. Unravels the reasons for Ismay’s jump. 328 pages, photos, map. £18.99 NOW £4
72297 THE MAN WHO SUPERCHARGED BOND by Paul Kenny
As an undergraduate at Cambridge, Amherst Villiers became addicted to speed, and in 1920 he designed a hydroplane from scratch called Storm Petrel. With his friend Raymond Mays at the wheel Amherst’s designs, started winning contests. After working for Bugatti, Amherst designed the Blue Bird for
Donald Campbell’s land speed records. He also supercharged the famous “Blower Bentley”. During the war Amherst joined the RAF and then emigrated to America to design rockets, where he met Ian Fleming and gave him the idea of a supercharged Bentley for Bond. An extraordinary engineer, designer and artist. 352pp, colour and b/w photos. £25 NOW £4
70333 BUILD YOUR OWN PAPER AIR FORCE:
Book and CD by Trevor Bounford 35 amazing colour models to print out, fold and fly each from a single sheet of paper, either folded or cut out. They include the Missile, the Spear, the Sly, the Dart, the Dragon, the Swan, the Eagle and the Falcon, the Hexagon, the Scales, the Archer, the Red Fox, the Triangle and the Phoenix - all with Latin equivalent names like corvus, Cygnus, vulpes and libra. On the enclosed CD, there are coloured versions of the templates to show where colour can be added. All templates are scalable. 96 large colour pages. $18.95 NOW £5
71746 ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO NAVAL AIRCRAFT by Francis Crosby
This splendid A-Z directory of over 130 aircraft features every type of plane from ship-borne fighters and bombers to helicopters and flying boats including the Grumman Hellcat, F-4 Phantom, Westland Lynx and Sikorsky Seahawk. Gives info about each aircraft’s name, country of origin, first flight, power, armament, size, weight and performance and the volume includes fascinating quotes from military leaders, plus a technical glossary explaining key aviation terms and abbreviations. Here are the Fairey Swordfish, Heinkel He 115 and Supermarine Spitfire plus ultra-modern jets. 256 softback pages 23cm x 30cm, 670 identification photos. ONLY £5.50
71880 THE GWR STORY by Rosa Matheson The Great Western Railway, or GWR, nicknamed God’s Wonderful Railway was engineered by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and initially designed to connect Bristol to London. This endearing book traces its history, covering such topics as the company, the engines and carriages, the battle of the gauges and the famous engineers including Gooch, Dean, Armstrong, Collett, Churchward and, of course, Brunel. 128 pocket sized pages, colour and b/w illus, timeline and milestones. £8.99 NOW £2.50
72434 BRITISH TOURING CAR RACING by Peter Collins
Subtitled The Crowd’s Favourite - Late 1960s-1990 - here is an affectionate, mainly pictorial panorama of 20 odd years of the British Touring Car Championship with flared wheel arches, lifting wheels, smoking tyres, through to the Group 1 years when the rule-makers tried to make the cars look standard and as a result slow them down. See again the Escort RS Mark 1, Ford Escort SVAs and Lotus Cortinas, Ford Falcon Sprint, Alfa Romeo Juniors, Sunbeam Avenger, Camaros and BMWs in cars that look like your dad’s but certainly weren’t. 96 pages. Colour and b/w photos. £14.99 NOW £3.50
TRAVEL AND PLACES
The distinguishing marks of true adventures, is that it is often no fun at all while they are actually happening.
- Kim Stanley Robinson
73961 HOLY LAND ARCHAEOLOGICAL GUIDE: To Israel, Sinai and Jordan by Fabio Bourbon and Enrico Lavagno
Glossy quality paper, hundreds of beautiful colour photographs, specially commissioned line art, diagrams and maps invite us to one of the most special and historic regions of the world. Often with a fisheye lens and in panoramas, we
see deep inside the Jewish quarter of Jerusalem, the Armenian quarter with its beautiful tile work and adorned interiors, collectables from the Mamluk and Ottoman periods, the walls and gates of the old city. We travel from Jericho to Hazor, a journey to north Israel seeing the St. George Monastery, Bet Shean and Bet Alpha, Cesarea, Kursi and Megiddo, Nazareth and Nimrud with highlights of all the archaeological discoveries of caves and wells, mysteries of good and evil, battles and discoveries of beautiful mosaics and menorah all beautifully photographed against azure blue skies. We go to Tabgha and the Jesus miracles, follow thousands of pilgrims to Meiron and the Zohar and Safed, the centre of the Kabbalah. Our journey continues from Mar Saba to Timna, a journey to south Israel including Bethlehem and Masada and finally to St. Catherine’s Monastery and Mount Sinai and from Petra to Pella on an archaeological tour of Jordan. 228 very large pages in softback. £12.99 NOW £6.50
73881 HENRY HUDSON:
Dreams and Obsession by Corey Sandler
Like so many explorers, Henry Hudson was a driven man, and his tragic end, set adrift in Hudson’s Bay with his sons and a few loyal crew members, was the result of his determination to find the elusive north-west passage through to the Pacific. The author describes Hudson’s four voyages in the early 17th century, retracing his steps
and undergoing the punishing conditions first hand. In 1607 and 1608 Hudson attempted to reach the Pacific by sailing up to the Arctic in his ship the Hopewell, first trying the western passage and then the eastern route north of Russia, but both times he encountered impenetrable ice. He spent a month in Novaya Zembla and also corresponded with John Smith, the explorer consolidating the English settlement at Jamestown in Virginia. For his third voyage Hudson changed his sponsor and was financed by the Dutch East India company, but failing once more to find the eastern passage he went west of his own initiative and against the orders of the company. Crew member Juet reports in his diary that they made some native Americans drunk in order to test their truthfulness about the terrain. The author devotes a chapter to the geography and history of the Hudson River before moving on to Henry Hudson’s ill-fated fourth voyage. A fascinating history of a much-misunderstood man. 431pp, paperback, photos, maps. £14.95 NOW £6
73892 COLUMBUS: The Four
Voyages, 1492-1504 by Laurence Bergen Brilliant, persuasive, volatile and paranoid, Christopher Columbus knew little about celestial navigation and nothing about the Pacific Ocean which fringes the place he went looking for - China. Instead, he thought he had found India and it was with much relief that the Santa Maria, Pinta and Niña sighted land on 12 October
1492 - the Santa Maria was taking on water and the crew were on the verge of mutiny. Yet for all his many flaws, Columbus was a masterful seaman who changed the entire course of world history. This is the first full biography to be published for over 60 years. Prizewinning author Laurence Bergen describes the full measure of the explorer’s controversial career, a scrupulously researched and unbiased account of four death-defying journeys into the uncharted waters of the New World - 1492-3, 1493-6, 1498 and 1502-3, his failure to obtain backing for a fifth voyage in 1505 and falling from favour with the Spanish court and his death, aged 54, on 20 May 1506 from the combined effects of malaria and reactive arthritis. Copiously illus with b/w and colour artworks, maps and woodcuts and sparkles with surprises and insights. 423pp, 2012 Penguin paperback edition. £10.99 NOW £7.50
73789 OCEAN BOULEVARD by David Baboulene
David Baboulene runs away to sea in a cloud of romantic dust for the first of his globetrotting adventures. It takes him across the world and back, from New Orleans and Houston, Barbados and Jamaica, through the Panama Canal to Sydney and Melbourne then back across the Pacific, through the Gilbert and Solomon Islands, Samoa, Tonga, Fiji and the Azores, to a triumphant homecoming in Liverpool. Takes David from boy to man and here are his tall tales and youthful high jinks, hilarious tours such as the one in Barbados. 318pp in paperback. £8.99 NOW £3
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