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Features: Civil Turbofan - the reasons for the success of turbofans with ever-higher by-pass ratio, Good results with bigger models and prospects for the 10T thrust class, future tendencies; Spruance Class - monorama special report with super colour fold-out illustration and much more; Shipboard Fire Control Systems - their characteristics and applications as adopted by the various navies; Japan's satellite program; The Mounties of the Sea - De Havilland DHC-7R; Aero-Caster used by Vancouver Shipyards; Ilyushin's Aircraft; Kaiten Guided Torpedoes (II); Many additional illustrated stories. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Quality copy. Magazine
Features: Salyut 5 - drawing a thermal image of the universe; Projects - the military jetfoil; Meeting at le Bourget - the 32nd Paris International Air Show; Japanese Shipbuilding Industry - a wide survey; Military Aircraft of Today - Pocket Rama with 41 models illustrated and described; Many additional illustrated stories. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Quality copy. Magazine
Features: The MIG-Hunting School (part II); Invincible launced; Bourget '77 - pictures from a show; The USSR and the Warsaw Pact - the Soviet Union's post-war strategies, from defense of the national territory to world expansion; Survey of the air forces of the Warsaw Pact Countries - the ever-increasing power of these forces; The Navies of Warsaw Pact Countries - their strength and strategy, upperly subservient to Soviet strategy; Sabres in Korea; Kaiten Guided Torpedoes (Part III); Many additional illustrated stories. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Quality copy. Book
Features: Farewell Pegasus; First AWACS delivered for operational use; Sagittario Launched; Kormorans on the Baltic - anti-ship missile; USA industry at the end of the 70's - 'No' to the B-1 signals the end of an era - long article; Greenwich '77; The Niteroi Class - Super fold-out colour illustration and much more; Surveillance Radar for air transport control and warning systems; Sabres in Korea (Part II); Kaiten Guided Torpedoes (Part IV); Many additional illustrated stories. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Quality copy. Book
Features: Merchant Marine Today - significant illustrated article; The Bundesmarine Today - substantial article; Tactical Transport Aircraft; Schnellboot 148 - article with great colour foldout; Electronic Warfare (part III); Additional illustrated stories. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Quality copy. Book
Features: SSR.N4 MARK3 starts test program; Type 209 for Iran; Soviet SSNs in the Baltic; The Mil Mi-24 - Exclusive; Genoa 7 May 1978 - the Italian naval industry is on show - long article; Single-engined touring aircraft; Warships of Today - Pocket Rama with dozens of colour illustrations; Additional illustrated stories. Former price on front cover else clean and unmarked with light wear. Quality copy. Book
Features: Merchant Fleet Today; Strengthening the Soviet Amphibious Forces; Thousandth Cosmos Launched; Kashin for India; Hypersonic USA - with hydrogen propulsion!; The Second Genoa Naval Show; Giuseppe Garibaldi - philosophy of a project; Hannover Air Show; Great article and colour fold-out of the O.H. Perry (FFG 7); Panama Canal Treaty Selected Documents (part II); Additional illustrated stories. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Quality copy. Book
Features: Airlines Today; F-15 Anatomy; The Israeli Lion - An outline of what will be the I.A.I. Arye (article with colour illustrations); The Phantom II Legend; Rotterdam Naval Technology Expo; The Pacific Ocean Today; Western Pacific Air Forces; 18 Navies to One Ocean; Additional illustrated stories. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Quality copy. Book
Features: BHC (British Hovercraft Corporation) - a leader in the sector; Which frigates for Canada?; Project - Lamurs 40; European Point Defense Systems - naval Crotale, Sea Wolf, Albatros, Dardo, OE/OTO 35 mm, GDM-A, Sea Sparrow; Farnborough '78 Preview and Buyers Guide with specs and illustrations; Additional illustrated stories. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Quality copy. Book
Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: Twentieth Year of Telephone Talk; P.A.B.X. for Telephone Company in Vancouver; When this magazine was a bab - by the first editor of Telephone Talk; North-west Telephone Company acquires Prince George System; Hard battle for phone men in rough country along Howe Sound; Christmas gale puts 75% of toll lines out of order; cover photo of 20 ton cable reel for use in Fraser River link in Vancouver-Victoria line; Preparatory work on new trans-gulf cable job nears completion; Speeding Aeroplanes can keep in touch with the earth - two; George Gaetz - Victoria 'heavy' gang foreman; Cover photo of woman demonstrating how to use dial phone; Full page photo of cable barge Brico; First section of new trans-gulf cable successfully laid - 6 pages with many photos; New construction in Victoria; Night work required to build line across Ladner Marsh; The Brico succeeds the Iwalani; Heavy Gang Foreman Andrew Bertram (Andy) Jackson; Land portion of new Victoria-Vancouver cable route now complete - 3 pages with many photos; New Traffic Headquarters in the Georgia Building - several photos; Richmond is thriving Neighbour of big coast cities - photos and text; Picture for Telephone Talk obtained via ship-to-shore phone call; Over half of Trans-Atlantic calls are with Great Britain; We can now talk with South America; Nanaimo heavy gang restores Nanaimo-Victoria service; Vancouver can talk to ship on the Atlantic; Wilfred Calman; 5 page illustrated article announcing completion of Vancouver-Victoria cable; B.C.'s first radiotelephone service now open; Second Calgary Circuit provides Windermere Valley connection; Cable to link Europe with North America; New type of conduit being used for underground work; Record load handled by New Westminster staff; Work on Victoria's central office equipment progressing - many photos; Nice cover photo of the Prince Henry, first passenger ship on the Pacific equipped with dial phone system; New type of pay telephone in Vancouver; Burnaby feature - rapidly industrializing; Bob Perry - Blaster - The Lone Canadian; Ruined Burrard Inlet cable to be replaced; Phone service now available to/from a train; Dunsmuir residence in Victoria speaks with London, England; Dials being placed on Victoria phones - 4 pages with photos; Direct coast and Alberta service now available for Revelstoke; Phone men fight fire which takes 5 buildings in Nanaimo; Dial demonstration popular at Victoria Exhibition; John (Jack) C. Miles; Prince George Reconstruction; Many photos of new Plant and Engineering building in Vancouver; Radiotelephone experiments at coast points successful - 6 pages with photos; William Palliser; Powell River System joins phone family; Trans-Gulf cable now in service; The Terminal and Repeater Equipment of the all-cable toll route - 4 pages with photos; Victoria now using new dial system - photos; Nanaimo high span replaced with submarine cable; Building the B.C. link of the Trans-Canada Line; 17,500 mile link connects Vancouver to Australia; and more. Half-leather binding. Average wear. Ink stamp of company executive E.P. LaBelle upon top edge of text else unmarked. Binding intact. Backstrip almost entirely loose. Book
Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: Photo of downton Nelson; Bird's-eye photo of Nelson from atop a mountain on north shore of west arm; Kootenay Feature 'The Romance of the 1890s - 8 pages of text and archival photos, including electric street cars in Nelson!; Table showing 'Exchanges in order of percent good toll calls; Cover advert. for Northern Electric Vacuum Cleaner!; Review of growth show steady expansion - 3 pages; Telephoning across Atlantic by AT&T Wireless continued for hours; When the Victoria and Esquimalt Telephone Company issued its own (one call) nickels; B.C. Industrial Review - statistics; Bar graph of # of phones operated from 1906 through 1923; the company's operator school; Issuing of monthly phone bills a work of magnitude - 4 page article with photos; photos of the halibut industry before 'the fish were scarcer in quantities and their habitats more scattered'; William Farrell- an appreciation of the former company president; 7 page article on B.C.'s deep sea fishing industry - great photos - halibut, herring, flounder; multiple photos from the Kootenays of snakes which have climbed up phone poles onto the wires!; photo of 25 year-old phone; Great full-page photo of the CIBC building at Hastings and Granville; 8 page article on the banks of vancouver with excellent photos; First interdepartmental football game; new power plant at Seymour office; A phone in B.C. for every 6 persons; Feature on Dams and the water-powers that turn the wheels of industry - photos of dams and various industries which use electricity, including the American Can factory and grain elevators; new power plant at Seymour office - illustrated; photos of productive farms and ideal homesites with super centerfold luxury Saanich home; Cover photo of U.S. President Harding in Stanley Park; Full-page photos of the U.S.S. Henderson entering the narrows and at dock with President Harding aboard; 13 page illustrated feature on the visit of President Harding - the first visit to Canada made by a President of the United States (President Harding died mere days later on August 2nd in San Francisco and this is reported as well); Photo of Crosland Bros. Farm in Duncan; 9 page illustrated feature on the seed growers of B.C.; photo of Duncan office under construction; Nice 8-page illustrated feature on Haney and area; photographing sound; Exploring Kootenay - Bill Skilling; 9 page illustrated feature on the Delta and Ladner district; Many miles of new long distance circuits; Improved inter-office trunk lines in Vancouver; and more. Half-leather binding. Average wear overall with the exception of the backstrip which is missing small chips and loose at back edge. Ink stamp of company executive E.P. LaBelle upon top edge else unmarked. Binding intact. Spine leaning moderately. Book
46 pages. Features: Atlantic Salmon - First of 3 parts - What can they teach us about steelhead?; The B.C. Flyfisher - The Tackle and Terminal Gear; Peace River Expedition - 1st of 3 parts; Hatcheries and the Angler - First of Two parts; Smutting - Don't cuss the midgets, duplicate them; The "Mosquitoes"; Okanagan Lake. Light wear. Address label upon front cover. Very nice copy. Book
40 pages. Features: County Atlases of Ontario; For to Breakfast on - Pembroke Tables; How Old is My Antique; Old Toronto on the Move - moving homes; Leading English Dealer Crosses Atlantic - Mallett and Son; and more. Crossword on back cover has been completed. Address label on front cover has been blacked out. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: Cadets climb mountains (7 pages); 405 Squadron takes anti-submarine trophy; Militia take to the field at Camp Dube; Interesting collections and hobbies at La Macaza; How are you with the Press?; Annual Art Competition; They shall never forget - Shelburn and the other escape organizations set up throughout Western Europe; A North Atlantic Christmas - MWO J.L. Wilson. Sound copy. Magazine
86 pages. Features/Articles: Canada's international problems; Our new national currency museum in Ottawa; Log drive - a great Canadian tradition - great photos; Hunting dinosaurs in Alberta's great bonebed; The Acadians who had a problem in France; Salmon revival in Lake Ontario; Atlantic Salmon once teemed in Lake Ontario; How to Raise Sawllowtail Butterflies; Protein-rich wild rice - our only native cereal; Architectural Heirloom - The East Block of Ottawa's Parliament Buildings; Beautiful Barkley Sound - paradise for divers. Above-average wear. Covers almost loose. Unmarked. A worthy copy. Book
50 pages. Features/Articles: Cover photo of view from Jasper Park Lodge; The New Prince George starts service this month; Jasper Park Lodge - a Quarter of a Century, with many photos; Canadian National Cameos - the meaning of train signals; Longmoor - a memorial window for the Canadian railway troops, who did their overseas training on the Longmoor Military Railway, was unveiled April 25 at the Garrison Church at Longmoor, Hants; Posters display our services - great pictorial display; The Reminiscing Run - a gabfest ensues when engineers get together; T.C.A. enters Bermuda - new direct air service inaugurated from Montreal and Toronto - with photos; G.T.W. (Grand Trunk Western Railway holds annual meeting; List and photos of staff working in Moncton's New Atlantic Building; System News; Chickens Without Wings - Dominica specializes in eating Crapaud (Frogs) which the natives refer to as "Mountain chicken"; Young Railroaders' Club; and more. Address label on back cover. Small piece missing from back cover. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Features: Mixed Thoughts on a Mixed Train, with map of Dominion Atlantic Railway, Truro Sub.; A Turntable for Wakefield, Quebec (to accommodate Number 1057); Referred to the Committee - back when the distance between the rails was very important; Chart of the Gauges of some of Canada's early railways; Determination and Hard Work - the story of the Strathcona Museum in Strathclair, Manitoba; Waybills; Please note: a 2" wide band has been stripped from front cover, probably by tape removal. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
Includes the following 8 issues from 1993: February, March, April, May, June, August, November, December. Includes the following features: Hakai Passage; Giant Nudibranch; Roatan and Utila; Bay Islands 'Aggressor'; Wreck of the Bohemian; Cayman Brac; Joy of Snorkelling; St. Lawrence Belugas; Tahiti - the rangiroa Atoll; Hawaiian Humpbacks; Tobermory in the Summer; Grand Cayman Island; Nakwakto Rapids; Norway Wrecks; Deep Divers; Pacific Octopus; Barkley Sound's Ten Best; Artificial Reefs in Ontario; Belize Holiday; Cuba; Saba; Isleworth; Black Sea Visit; Sidney, B.C.; San Juan Islands; Photobiology; Battle of the 'Atlantic'; Costa Rica; Macrophotography - getting up close; Neah Bay, Washington; Discovery Passage, B.C.; Bonaire; Aruba and Curacao; 'Touch the Sea'; Cozumel; Pirate's Treasure in Cayman; Inflatables; Nudibranchs; New York Cops; Queen Charlotte Islands; Similan Islands, Thailand; Philippines - Balicasag; Hypothermia; Marine Parks; Halifax Harbour; Ceolacanth cycles; Jurassic Seas; Talking Underwater; Palau, Vanuatu, Best of the Great Barrier; Sambro Island, Nova Scotia; Palm Beach, Florida; Mystery Wreck in Georgian Bay; Sumbarines Ahoy!; Clayoquot Sound, Hotsprings Cove; 'Shoal Searcher'; Bahamas. Clean with moderate wear. Quality copies. Book
Features: Main's maiden voyage to the moon - Apollo 8 - Dec. 11-27, 1968; Return to Vilcabamba; Atlantic Ocean pollution - 'dead sea'; Chocoe Indians of Darien - as they were 47 years ago; Ammonite "Whopper" on display; General Funston's Alaskan Explorations; Sana'a - Capital City of Yemen; Sargasso Sea Expeditions - study adds new data; The 'Brendan' voyage to North America - followed medieval saga and technology. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Features: Daniel Denison Streeter, FN 1913; Amos Burg, FN 1931; U.S. Caving Team Attains Record Depth; Searching for Aloe plants in Africa; Kansas City Museum - Osage culture exhibits; The Dog that helped win the West - Scannon, the Newfoundland dog who accompanied Lewis and Clark; Bimini Marine-Archeology Expedition - underwater formations considered artificial; Rowing across the Atlantic - Curtis and Kathleen Saville in their Excalibur; Exploration under the Arctic Ice - submarine surveyors of the polar region; First U.S. Atlantic Route Flight - William M. Masland was the navigator on the Pan American Sikorsky S-42 that made the first route survey across the Atlantic Ocean in 1937. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
68 pages. A.J. Casson cover illustration of grass-cutting man mowing flowers while girl-watching. Contents: Great colour ad for Veedol motor oil inside front cover; Nice ad for International Trucks 2-ton trucks; Investors Syndicate ad features William H. Lotts, President of Overland Construction Company; Czar's Gold, by Robert Welles Ritchie; Roosevelt Acts - M. Grattan O'Leary reports on the "Prophet of Recovery" - including photo of President Roosevelt with Premier Bennett; A Sporting Gesture, by E. Phillips Oppenheim; Article on Sir Arthur Currie; Forgotten Money in Bank Accounts, by Grant Dexter; Ins and Outs of Sport - how different sports go in and out of favour; Arctic Air Trail - Flight Lieut. J.D.M. Gray and his plan to fly the "Sourdough", a Fairchild monoplane, across the Atlantic; False Colors, by Captain Dingle; Sleepy, by Beverley Owen; My Hat!, by Dora Sanders; The (Great) Depression, by Honorable E.C. Drury - Part 2 - Causes; Match Point, by John Holden; We Shouldn't Own Ships - O.F. MacKenzie argues that now that WWI is over the Canadian government need not own ships; A very lovely full-page colour ad for Campbell's Tomato Soup featuring a waving girl in a tomato-coloured dress and blue hat and jacket; Salesman of Music - Milton Blackstone and the Hart House Quartet which also includes Adaskin, de Kresz and Hambourg; Full-page Canada Dry ad shows boy and girl running; Europe Fears Treaty Revision; Nice Dominions Tire ad; New Guinea is Rich Gold Field; There are now 230 weekly comic strips; Great Wall is Useless Now; Modern Alarms Catch Burglars - electrical devices installed in banks make robbery practically impossible; Baseball has been changed by the Curve Ball and other Developments; Jerusalem now has Y.M.C.A.; Super-Markets Cause Concern - Large-scale grocery selling in cheap warehouses worries regular trade; Nice two-colour full-page ad for the new Chevrolet Standard Six and Master Six; The Future of Medicine; Vintage Dentyne chewing gum ad includes photo of Eskimo lady with healthy teeth; Lovely colour Shredded Wheat ad; Nice Champion Spark Plug ad features Eddie Miller in an Auburn 12 Speedster; Trans-Canada Long-Distance ad with contemporary prices per minute; Outdoor Weddings, by Helen G. Campbell; Lending Companies have Good Depression Record, by W.A. Higgins; Nice 2-colour ad for Northern Electric Electric range inside back cover; Nice ad for Kodak Verichrome Film on back cover. Address label upon front cover. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
72 pages. Features: High Moment of Faith - a gallery of children in first communion, confirmation, bar mitzvah; Report from Asia - We're arming for the wrong war; A Mechanic Tells why we should scrap 10-year-old cars; The Uncanny art of 27 drugged painters; a 10-day trencherman's tour of Winnipeg; What it's like to drive a Buick to Moscow; Why Hockey Keeps Getting Faster... and Gentler; Our risky place in the grand design for the Atlantic. Great colour ads include: Pepsi; Hammond Organs (2-page); Coke-coloured Santa (back cover). Average wear. Pages 17 and 19 loose but present. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Features: Did Richard Giesbrecht overhear JFK's assassins?; Colour photo ad for the 1968 Delta Oldsmobile; Campus 1967 - Why has it grown so quiet? - an 11-page hard look at the new campus and its problems; A Consumer's Report on Canada's Top Universities; A Day in the Life of a University - 100 people are button-holed at the University of Toronto; Crazy Legs! - colour photos of coloured leggings!; The day the balloon went up for Wallace McCutcheon; Robert Stanfield in Ottawa - the end of obstruction; The Lonely, Fearful Hell of Nervous Breakdowns; Hey Stuke! - Annis Stukus seeks to bulldoze Vancouver into the National Hockey League; When the daring young men took off into glory from a Newfoundland pasture - the challenge to be the first to fly the Atlantic; The Black Hand on the Big Trigger - H. Rap Brown gives his first full-scale interview to a white reporter; Look - There's a Flying Saucer! - some scientists want to prove UFO observers right, or wrong; Nice colour ad for Hollandia pipe tobacco; Colour photo half-page ad for Ski-Doo 1968; Canadiana, with Gerald Stevens; Fantastic colour photo centerfold for the 1968 Buick Models - Gigantic and beautiful cars we'll probably never see again... sigh; Archery in the Rough. Covers separated and detached, but present. Book
Features: The Last Years of the Atlantic Salmon?; The Life of Sable Island's Wild Horses; The Great Disaster - by Louise De Koriline Lawrence; Salt Marshes of the Maritimes; Audubon's Journey to Labrador; Governmental Secrecy in Canada - environmental implications; Yukon's Dempster Highway and Environmental Impact. Few library markings. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
Features: Living Resources of the Ocean - A Canadian View; From Placentia Bay to Spitzbergen - a Naturalist aboard a North Atlantic Whaler; The Status of the World's Whales; Spellbound on the Bay of Fundy; Whale-Watching; My First Summer in the Arctic. Few library markings. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
