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| DAVID GLADWIN Book Number: 89986 |
Published price: £35
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This lively and idiosyncratic history of the charabanc or pleasure-bus takes the story to the end of World War II with archive photos, timetables, magazine articles, cartoons, advertisements, anecd...
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| FRED KERR Book Number: 90344 |
Published price: £25
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Superlative railway photographer Fred Kerr directs his lens towards the early days of diesel, when preservation was focused on steam and only a discerning few realised that prototypes such as the D...
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| KLAUS CARL Book Number: 90797 |
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The Bridge at Argenteuil by Claude Monet, Fishing Boats at Saints-Maries by Vincent Van Gogh, Port of St. Tropez by Paul Signac, Boats in the Port of Honfleur by Claude Monet, The Roads at Kronstad...
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| DAVID HUTCHINGS Book Number: 90895 |
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After the 'unsinkable' RMS Titanic - a White Star liner - struck an iceberg during her maiden voyage over the Atlantic on 14 April 1912, the ship sank with 1,503 people losing their lives. This com...
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| MATTHEW LEONARD Book Number: 90998 |
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The top ten motor bestsellers of the 60s included minis and saloons, luxury cars and sports cars. The 70s saw the oiling of the wheels of change with saloon cars and larger family cars; the 80s th...
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| HAYNES PUBLISHING Book Number: 91000 |
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Chickenhawk contains the most vivid, astoundingly detailed descriptions of flying ever written. Robert Mason's war was supposed to bring the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese to their knees in sh...
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| HAYNES PUBLISHING Book Number: 91018 |
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SE5, SE5a, SE5b, and SE-5E are the models covered in this Haynes Owners' Workshop Manual and insight into the design, engineering, restoration, maintenance and operation of Britain's First World Wa...
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| HAYNES PUBLISHING Book Number: 91019 |
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A Haynes Owners' Workshop Manual covering HAS Mk.2, Mk.3 and HMA Mk.8 models, here is an insight into the design, construction, operation and maintenance of the Royal Navy's multi-role ship-borne h...
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| BMS BRANDS Book Number: 91190 |
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Beginner level for ages eight to adult and with real tools inside, the 120 pieces which are Mecanno-style and compatible are easy to assemble. Illustrations and assembly instructions are included,...
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| BRYN EVANS Book Number: 91225 |
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Japanese superiority in the air was unchallenged following the Pearl Harbor attacks, with their crack plane the Dinah easily able to outperform Allied aircraft in terms of height and speed, but a n...
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| MARTIN DERRY & NEIL ROBINSON Book Number: 91227 |
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Entering service in the crucial wartime year of 1942, the Avro Lancaster quickly became the supreme RAF heavy bomber of its day in spite of competition from the Handley Page Halifax, with the RAF f...
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| MARTIN DERRY & NEIL ROBINSON Book Number: 91228 |
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Written with modelling enthusiasts in mind, this book focuses on extensive visual coverage of the iconic Avro Shackleton, a post-war machine in the RAF coastal command for the defence of friendly m...
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| NICK BARKER Book Number: 91230 |
Published price: £12.95
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Captain of HMS Endurance during the Falklands conflict of 1982, Nick Barker made his first visit to the islands in December 1980. Endurance, or Red Plum as she was always called, had joined the Ro...
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| JO BEECK Book Number: 91231 |
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From the elegant prototype Model-40 biplane of 1925 which was adapted to carry mail between Chicago and San Francisco, to the 787 "Dreamliner" with its glass-fibre structure, this neat fact file te...
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| JIM BLAKE Book Number: 91233 |
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A snapshot of the 1960s, the maroon red and cream double decker on the front has the jolly advert 'DULUX IS A HOME'S BEST FRIEND!' Going back to very first horse-bus or tram operations in Victoria...
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| LANCE COLE Book Number: 91234 |
Published price: £35
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The British have had an affair with Bugatti sports cars for decades, and perhaps Prescott Hill-Climb in Gloucestershire is the place where that relationship has reached its highlights. Prescott is...
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| LAURENCE WATERS Book Number: 91246 |
Published price: £30
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A pictorial journey through time which uses previously unpublished material from the extensive Great Western Trust Collection at Didcot Railway Centre. It could be argued that the Great Western or...
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| ANTHONY BURTON Book Number: 91247 |
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The man who became the Chief Engineer responsible for planning and building the Great Western Railway line was Isambard Kingdom Brunel who at only 27 years was quite happy to ignore precedents and ...
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| TONY O'TOOLE, MARTIN DERRY Book Number: 91248 |
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The Hurricane was one of Britain's most iconic aircraft which was not only pivotal during the Battle of Britain but also served as a night fighter, fighter-bomber, naval fighter and dedicated groun...
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| KEN OTTER Book Number: 91250 |
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HMS Gloucester (or The Fighting 'G') sank on 22 May 1941 during the Battle of Crete after an attack from a Luftwaffe aircraft. Only 85 of her 810 men survived and, while Allied destroyers were in t...
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| EDITED BY JOHN L MATTHEWS Book Number: 91469 |
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With extended interviews from the BBC film, here is the tragic, dramatic and unmissable story of Formula One's killer years when the sport was out of control. In the 1960s and early 1970s mechanic...
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| ROY AND SUE PRESTON Book Number: 91434 |
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Travel across the country in over 100 mind-boggling puzzles written in association with the National Railway Museum, and covering challenges, extraordinary firsts, breaking new grounds and journeys...
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| HOWARD PILTZ Book Number: 91571 |
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Transport and stamp collecting have been brought together in this special book looking at the way postage stamps have increased our knowledge of transport worldwide. The collecting of stamps or ph...
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| ANDREW CHOOMG Book Number: 91573 |
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A companion to 91574 Black Swan Class Sloops, this volume is devoted to a ship best known for her demise, one of three sisters sunk in a matter of hours by a single U-boat in 1914. When first desi...
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| LES BROWN Book Number: 91574 |
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Widely regarded as the Rolls Royce of Second World War convey escorts, heavily armed and superbly equipped for their role, the Black Swan Class of sloops and their modified derivatives were among t...
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| PAUL SHANNON Book Number: 91575 |
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An historical overview, the book examines in words and pictures the huge changes that have taken place in the last 50 years on the British Railway Network. We see how steam-age infrastructure has ...
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| CLIFF MARSH & PETER SNOWDEN Book Number: 91589 |
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AEC, Bristol, Crossley, Daimler, Dennis, Leyland and others were all manufacturers of passenger vehicle chassis which could be seen throughout the country in the years following the end of WWII. T...
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| NICK CORBLE Book Number: 88979 |
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With the coming of the Industrial Revolution came the reinvention of water transport and this guide gives a fascinating insight into the river life of our country. Through this history we learn abo...
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| SIMON PEARSON Book Number: 91769 |
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Written on the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Britain, the book brings to life the pilots and planes involved through the stories of 18 airmen, nine from each side, and 18 different aircraft. T...
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| CHARLIE CONNELLY Book Number: 91773 |
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The symbolism of the English Channel goes way beyond a simple role as a conduit for shipping, trawling and the odd lard-and-lanolin-slathered maniac in goggles and swimming trunks plunging in and m...
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