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I think it is a pity to lose the romantic side of flying and simply to accept it as a common means of transport.


- Amy Johnson 74907 VETERAN MOTOR


CARS by Michael E. Ware The author is a retired Director of the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu where he worked for 38 years. He studied photography and in 1959 formed his own business specialising in motor-racing photography and at Beaulieu in 1960 became the Photographic Librarian. The veteran and Edwardian periods


of motoring are his favourite and he greatly enjoys driving cars of this era. Veteran cars are those made no later than 1918 and the first model basically comprised the frame and bodywork of a horse-drawn carriage fitted with a petrol engine. A celebratory ‘Emancipation Run’ was held from London to Brighton and was the forerunner of the annual event. Most of the competitors drove cars imported from the Continent. Our Shire handbook describes how the motor car developed in the 1880s and 1890s. 32pp, paperback, many photos.


£4.99 NOW £3


75088 SURVIVOR: The Unrestored Collector Car by Kris Palmer


Who would have thought that the gentle and genteel world of collector cars would have seen such an upheaval, such conflict. And it is all about whether to restore these nostalgic automobiles or to leave them alone. For nearly 50 years, the trend amongst those who lovingly collect very old vehicles has


been restoration - that is, stripping away the marks that time and use impart. Cars that showed their age have been laboriously returned to a condition equal to or better than new. The result has been a sea of automobiles that differ in colour and shape, but whose pasts have been effectively erased. Today, a new approach has emerged. In the garages and carports of everyday auto enthusiasts, more and more owners are choosing to leave their cars as they are, preserving rather than removing the Hand of Time. Patina has displaced perfection. Imperfect has become Perfect. This thought-provoking book is the first to celebrate the trend of preserving rather than restoring our collective automotive heritage. It explores the issues and challenges that confront the non-restorer, whether the vehicle is ‘display only’ or whether it will see regular use over unlimited miles. Here, in all their glory, are such awesome ancient vehicles as the Ramped-Up Garnet Mustang GT, the ’23 Model T Hot Rod, the ’32 Fords and the magnificent Ferrari 365GTB/4 Daytona as well as many more. 202 pages with superb photos in colour and b/w.


£14.99 NOW £5


75086 MOTORCYCLE SURVIVOR: Tips and Tales in


the Unrestored Realm by Kris Palmer


As with its companion volume about preserving rather than restoring old cars, also offered in Bibliophile code 75088, this compelling and strongly convincing book describes how motorcycle enthusiasts, instead of laboriously returning their beloved


vehicles to a condition equal to or better than new, have opted to keep them as they are. As with cars, this trend is growing, and is hopefully a maturation process amongst collectors of motor cycles. There are some exciting and nostalgic stories here, as well as some truly magnificent vehicles, including a 1914 Indian Board Track Racer, a 1912 Yale and a 1920 Merkel, not to mention Tom Jones’ 1968 BSA Shooting Star and 1914 Thiem. What a cornucopia of goodies! As the author reminds readers, if they are holding one of only a few unrestored examples of a particular motorcycle, restoring it will take a little bit of history away from posterity. 200 pages illustrated with superb close-up colour photos.


£17.99 NOW £6


75168 GLOUCESTER AND SHARPNESS CANAL: An Illustrated History


by Hugh Conway-Jones In April 1827 when the Gloucester & Sharpness Canal opened, it was the widest and deepest canal in England, capable of taking most of the large sea-going ships of the day. It bypassed a narrow, winding stretch of the River Severn and


allowed Gloucester to develop as Britain’s most inland port, serving the growing industrial towns of the Midlands. The book shows difficulties encountered in constructing the canal including the junction with the Stroudwater Canal, the only intersection of two independent canals in the country. We learn about how the canal was operated and maintained, what vessels made use of it and the facilities. As the size of merchant ships grew, a new dock was constructed at Sharpness and during the 20th century the canal became primarily used by barges and lighters that had picked up cargoes from ships discharging at Sharpness or at ports further down the Severn Estuary. With information for written records and supplemented by memories of those who worked on the waterway. 192 pages in large paperback with many photos, some in colour, maps and diagrams. Apologies if some pages are slightly uncut. £16.99 NOW £7


74743 MAIN LINE STEAM SINCE 1984


by Nick Harrison First edition 2004, in pristine condition and with very glossy full page colour photographs, this is a large book which celebrates 20 years of


photographing steam locos all around the UK. Nick Harrison in the 1980s would join company with Ross Middleton and then drive up to Doncaster station where they would meet Pete Thomas who had travelled up from London. He has travelled in excess of 30,000 miles in pursuit of ‘the perfect picture’ and had one or two near escapes. Here are dozens of his perfect pictures for us to enjoy, ‘old steam trains in full flight’ puffing away through beautiful countryside with their nicknames, details in short captions through quarries in the Peak District, over viaducts, famous LNER trains, the Flying Scotsman, the Scarborough Flyer, the City of Wells, the Green


Arrow, the Sir Nigel Gresley and dozens more. One per page, 96 very large pages in landscape.


£23.99 NOW £7


75040 THE STIG: 30 Top Power Laps


by BBC Top Gear


Some say...he can smell corners. Some say...his teeth glow in the dark. He is The Stig and he can drive faster than anyone else. See him in the big yellow shouty car, the Ascari A10, which resulted in Jeremy having to invest in a hearing aid, the Maserati MC12 built


by Ferrari which didn’t win Jeremy’s heart. Light on frills but not short on thrills, the Porsche GT3 RS pulls up alongside the adrenalin pumping Pamplona-style Murciélago Roadster or perhaps you will go for the more sleek Aston Martin DBS or the TVR Sagaris or Tuscan? Actually designed for children, this handbook is great fun and includes 200 little coloured car stickers for handicraft projects etc.


£4.99 NOW £2


74420 CLARKSON: The Top Gear Years by Jeremy Clarkson


For The Top Gear Years we concentrate on the TV programme and magazine that made him famous. Although the show actually started in 1977, it was the arrival of Jeremy Clarkson and other less reverent presenters in 1988 that saw the show’s popularity bloom. To accommodate the new format Jeremy and co built Top Gear HQ on the site of a former aerodrome in Surrey, where they and their guests could fool around in cars to their hearts’ content. Next came Top Gear Live, whereby the chaps charged around the world with the subtlety of a 1970s Led Zep tour, establishing outposts of petrolhead mayhem across the globe, a 500 million viewer empire upon which the sun never set. This book is a collection of the best of Clarkson’s Top Gear magazine columns from 1993 to the end of 2011, which document in his inimitable style the evolution of both the show with its much-loved features, stars and guests, and that of the motor industry and the cars themselves. Enjoy every minute! 510pp. £20 NOW £7


61447 RAIL CENTRES: Clapham Junction No. 17


by J. N. Faulkner Clapham Junction’s name is synonymous with the hustle and bustle of travel. Proudly


proclaiming itself as ‘Britain’s busiest station’, it is one of the most important junctions on Britain’s rail network, dominating the western approaches to the Metropolis. It is


situated at a point where the ex-LSWR lines from Waterloo meet the ex-LVSCR lines from Victoria and the West London joint line to Kensington. In an area criss- crossed by an intricate network of lines and viaducts, Clapham Junction is a centre for both suburban and long distance trains. It retains a great variety of traffic even in the modern era including the inter-regional services to Gatwick airport and Brighton, mainline services to Exeter, Weymouth and a huge variety of freight traffic. Reprint with original b/w photos and drawings. 128 large pages.


£16.99 NOW £7.50


68129 CROYDON TRAMWAYS: A History of Trams in the Croydon Area from 1879 to 1951 by Robert J Harley


The numerous photos from this era show fascinating historical details such as the Crystal Palace and high street landmarks such as Freeman, Hardy and Willis or Grant’s department store, while the sides of trams carry banner advertisements for Lipton’s Tea, Robertson’s Marmalade, Whitbread Stout and the long-forgotten Nubolic Soap. In 1933 London Transport took over from the independent companies, closely followed by the introduction of trolley buses. The development of the motor bus system in the postwar years finally saw the closing down of the tram routes following fierce and even violent competition between operators. It was to be several decades before environmental awareness led to the reintroduction of tram systems in cities, including Croydon. 128pp, numerous archive photos some colour. £19.95 NOW £8


72605 FLY NOW! A Colorful Story of Flight from Hot Air Balloon to the 777 ‘World Liner’ by Joanne Gernstein London


As early as 1914, the first scheduled airline carried passengers across Tampa Bay Florida, a small but critical step towards a huge international industry employing thousands of people and transporting billions. From the smallest baggage label to the massive nose section of a Boeing 747, readers will be able to re-live the compelling story of air travel. 192 paperback pages with dozens of rare and dramatic aeronautical posters in colour and b/w. £9.99 NOW £2.50


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. Evening Star’s designers had all been assistants to Sir William Stanier, the legendary chief engineer of the LMS Railway. 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 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 £6


73383 SPITFIRE: Icon of a Nation by Ivan Rendall


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. 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 £12.50


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. 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.


£14.99 NOW £5 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. 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 £3.50


73627 OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM US ARMY: Abrams, Bradley and Stryker


by Andy Renshaw and Ryan Harden This book 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, colour.


£19.99 NOW £3.50


74733 BRITISH RAILWAY INFRASTRUCTURE IN


COLOUR by Robert Hendry With colour glossy photos throughout, the book is designed for the modeller and historian. Here we discover the achievements of Robert Stephenson, Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Francis William Webb to mention just three


celebrated engineers. It is an in-depth study of passenger stations, goods depots, bridges, tunnels, locomotive sheds, the formation, cuttings, embankments and level crossings, the permanent way, platform furniture and signs. Illustrations range from the late 1950s to the present with detailed captions on how to identify different types of rails and chairs. With glossary of railway terminology and


architectural terms. 96 very large pages in softback. Colour illus.


£14.99 NOW £5


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74745 A COMPENDIUM OF LNWR LOCOMOTIVES 1912- 1949: Part One


Passenger Tender Engines by Willie Yeadon


The author spent 35 years working with the Railway Correspondence and Travel Society team and is an expert on the London and North Western Railway locomotives. He


was surprised to find a lack of any connected account covering them, listing how they fared under the London Midland and Scottish Railway, and under British Railways ownership, so he decided to fill the gaps and work forward from 1912 to the absolute end of what had been LNWR engines. Willie’s many years of membership in the LNWR society put him in contact with a large number of people who were, and still are, concerned that an accurate record, both statistical and pictorial, should be available of the locomotives which operated The Premier Line, and here it is - all the info any railway enthusiast could possibly want about these marvellous pieces of workmanship, from Webbs to Whales and from Alfred the Great Class to Claughton 4- Cylinders. 122 paperback pages 27cm x 21cm very lavishly illus in b/w.


£19.99 NOW £7.50


74746 A COMPENDIUM OF LNWR LOCOMOTIVES 1912- 1964: Part Two


Goods Tender Engines by Willie B. Yeadon


Those readers who have Part One code 74745 of this two-part record of the LNWR locomotives that gave such stalwart service from 1912 to 1964 will be fully aware of the


‘glamour boys’ of the London and North Western Railway. In this, Part Two, there is not a single named engine! The goods engines got scant attention, except from the really serious and dedicated enthusiasts, but it was they that provided the cake on to which the named engines added the icing. Fortunately, Willie B. Yeadon is here to give them due recognition, both in detail and in differences of appearance. Even more fortunately, in 1936, there was a dentist in Manchester - one Will Whitworth - whose knowledge of and enthusiasm for LNWR locomotives had no boundaries. He, and his camera, treated every North Western engine as being of equal merit and, to those who shared his enthusiasm, prints of his photographs were readily available. A large proportion of the splendid photos in this nostalgic record were taken by him. 154 paperback pages 27cm x 21cm, photos.


£19.99 NOW £7.50


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 £4.50


74222 BRADFORD TRANSPORT by David J. Croft


Although there were some rather ad-hoc horse bus services run by entrepreneurial stables from 1864, organised public transport in Bradford began in 1882, with the first regular horse-drawn tram services. In 1898 they began to be replaced by electric trams, although steam continued to work the streets until 1903. Bradford had one the country’s most impressive fleet of these pollution-free, reliable trolleybus vehicles, and the last service running in 1972 - just before the oil crisis! Celebrates the city’s tremendous heritage. 200 b/w photos with extensive captions plus full history of each type of vehicle. 128pp softback. £12.99 NOW £4


74248 HOT AIR BALLOONS: History,


Evolution and Great Adventures by Jean Becker, photography by Daniela Comi and Roberto Magni On November 21st, 1783, Pilâtre de Rozier and the Marquis d’Arlandes, both Frenchmen, rose from the ground and travelled for about six miles on board the Montgolfier brothers’ balloon. It was an historic event. Today, modern balloon pilots take us to another world, that of the big rallies like the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta. Here almost 800 aerostats take off every morning while the festival lasts. In this mega- sized volume, readers will find not only a cool history of balloon flying, but also a riveting detailed explanation of how the whole process works, and sections exploring the major meetings all over the world. For us, the best chapter is on the ‘special shapes’ - there are balloons in the form of Michelin Man, horses, ducks, penguins, tortoises, a Coke bottle and even a bagpipe-playing Highlander! 303 pages 36cm x 26cm, bedazzling colour. £30 NOW £12


74774 ANCIENT BOATS AND SHIPS by Sean McGrail


The main focus of this book, the study of ancient boats and rafts, is at the heart of the wider topic of maritime archaeology. Working out how an excavated boat has been built, which tools were used, leads to an investigation of its equipment - anchors, bailers and so on and how it was propelled and steered, loaded and discharged and its uses for ferrying, fishing, fighting or cargo carrying. After an account of the way maritime archaeologists work, the author describes the building and uses of boats and ships in northwest Europe up to about 1500. 54 illus, colour and b/w. 72 page paperback.


£5.99 NOW £3


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