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No marks or inscriptions to contents. Minor creasing adjacent to spine. Very clean very tight pages with bright unmarked covers and no bumping to corners. 47pp. The Welsh Highland Railway which ran from Dinas Junction, south of Caernarvon to Portmadoc, a distance of 21.5 miles, only existed as a through route for fourteen years shortly after the end of the war in 1919. Included herein are details of rolling stock and the work being carried out in the hope that trains will again run on the line.
10 page children's board book. Average wear to exterior. Contents clean and bright. Undated but appears to be circa 1990. Please note: sound effect is working at time of listing but we cannot guarantee the battery will not have expired by the time of your purchase so we offer this book as is. Also please note that the isbn number for this book is shared with a different title called 'Freddy Fire Engine' which we are not offering. Book
Complete 5 volume set. pp. 464; 548; 595; 686; 702 + Numerous plates, some folding. Many of the plates are heliotypes or lithographs. 8vo. 240 mm. Original gilt-lettered full cloth binding, slightly soiled. Hardbound. Very good. The copy of Abraham Herr Smith (1815-1894), a U.S. Representative from Millersville, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He was elected as a Republican to the Forty-third and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1885). Contents include: I. Report of the Commissioner-General, with Accompanying Papers, including Lists of Exhibitors and of Awards. II. Fine Arts, by W.W. Story; Education, by J.L. Chamberlain; Political Education, by A.D. White; Manual Training Schools, by E.C. Jewett; Wood-Carving, by J.T. Norton; Textile Fabrics, by Henry Howard. III. Iron and Steel, D.J. Morrell; Ceramics, by W.P. Blake; Glass and Glass-ware, also by Blake. Forestry, F.P. Baker. Cotton Culture, by P.M.B. Young. IV. Chemical Processes, by T.E. Jenkins; Mining Industries, J.D. Hague; Steam and Gas Engines, A.J. Sweeney; Machines and Machine tools, W.T. Porter; Clocks and Watches, E.H. Knight; Railway Apparatus, by W.A. Anderson. V. Agricultural Implements, by E.H. Knight; Agricultural Products, by J.J. Woodman; Live Stock, by Samuel Dysart; Horticulture, by G.W. Campbell; Pisciculture, by T.B. Ferguson; etc. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W50.
8vo., First Edition, with several figures in the text and 3 folding charts (one repaired at fold), free endpapers lightly browned; original brown cloth, upper board framed in blind and lettered in gilt, gilt back, primrose endpapers, covers lightly age-soiled else a very good, bright copy. SCARCE.
A typically excellent Ladybird book devoted to helping young ones understand simple machines used in everyday life. Appears to be a first edition - no contrary indications. Clean and unmarked with light wear. The binding is so tight that this copy may have never been read. Lovely! Book
Features: Flying combat air patrol with the greatest carrier fighter aces of WW II; Diary of a Luftwaffe mechanic; From the Channel coast to Russia!; What were Daimler-Benz & BMW engines like to work on? Art: TBF Avenger; F^F-3 Hellcat; F6F-5 Hellcat; Curtiss SB2C-5 Helldiver; F6F-3 Hellcat; F6F-5 Hellcat; Grumman TBF Avengers. Water rippling along top edge. Book
Topics: The Mercer Project; Lathe Tool Grinding Jigs; Wenford; A Modified Stuart 5A Steam Engine; Savage's No 1 Organ Engine of 1860; BR Standard Class 4 2-6-4 Tank Locomotive in 5" gauge; A Half-Size Turret Clock - Revisited; Echills Wood Railway to Close. Excellent copy. Book
Lathe Tool Grinding Jigs, A Modified Stuart 5A Steam Engine; Erewash Valley Society visit Peterborough; The Mercer Project; A Really Useful Milling Vice; Wenford; BR Standard Class in 4 2-6-4 Tank Locomotive in 5" gauge; Savage's No 1 Organ Engine of 1860. Excellent copy. Book
The Mercer Project; Fitting an Inexpensive Digital Read-out to a Milling Machine; Savage's No 1 Organ Engine on 1860; A Modified Stuart 5A Steam Engine; Wenford; Southern Valve Gear; BR Standard Class 4 2-6-4 Tank Locomotive in 5" gauge. Excellent copy. Book
Farcot's Table Engine; Some Notes on a Transparent Whell Clock; A Method of Making Sparking Plugs for Model Petrol Engines; The 4.7" Naval Gun Mk. IX**; Building a 3.5" gauge BR Standard Class 9F 2-10-0, with a Crosti Boiler. Excellent copy. Book
Farcot's Table Engine; Wenford; The 4.7" Naval Gun Mk. IX**; Digital Read Out for Myford Super 7 Tailstock; BR Standard Class 4 2-6-4 Tank Locomotive in 5" gauge. Excellent copy. Book
Wenford; An Early 19th Century Table Steam Engine; BR Standard Class 4 2-6-4 Tank Locomotive in 5" Gauge; Boiler Steam Generation and Safety Valves; Farcot's Table Engine. Excellent copy. Book
Farcot's Table Engine; A Cam Copier; Pressure Vessels and the U.K. Law; Wenford; Making Injectors; BR Standard Class 4 2-6-4 Tank Locomotive in 5" gauge. Excellent copy. Book
62 pages. Features: The story of an iron range Yellowstone; Hamilton's long preserved Gartshore Pumping engines; Tidying up the Chassis for Lucky 7; Each August there is a Steam-up at Buckley; More Una-flow information in Steamboat Wharf; Throttle, Lubricator and steam piping for the Clishay; Side-opening Toolpost; Harsen's Island boat; and more. Clean and unmarked. Moderate wear. Sound copy. Magazine
Book is in excellent condition in every respect with straight spine, sharp corners to the covers, unblemished text block that is free of marking of any kind. 180 pages, Chapters include: The steam engine -- romantic or rogue, My story (and engines) , Rhubarb and Bananas (and engines) The Hokey-Cokey engines, Dangers on the line, etc.
56 pages. Features: Great colour ad for International Trucks inside front cover; Nice two-colour full-page Chevrolet ad; Super Sub-Hunters (fiction); Nice one-page Canada Dry ad; Canadians are donating the blood to be used for Britain's armies; Churchill and Chamberlain - a column from London; Pottsy (fiction); What Canada Means to Me; Tondar (fiction); Wakeville, Awake! (part 4 of 4); South of the Border - photos and article on the thriving city of Windsor, Ontario; Great full-page ad for Sisman's Scampers (shoes); Kindergarten of the Air - Frank Lucas and his Toronto Model Airplane Factory -article with photos; Nice full-page two-colour ad for Moffat Electric Ranges; Nice two-colour full-page ad for Caterpillar diesel engines and electric sets; Full-page Dodge Truck ad; Great colour ad for Hewetson Shoes inside back cover; Nice colour ad for Nash automobiles on back cover. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding tight. A nice copy. Book
72 pages. Features: Two-page illustrated ad for the Boeing-Vertol 107; Fidel Castro's Threat to the Hemisphere - the author fought with Castro's army but left when he was convinced Castro would not stop until he was the master of all Latin America; Riot Control with Chemical Agents - when the mission is to quell, not kill; The 2d MAW's - Level Ready Pilot Training; Rogers' Rangers - Recon Company 1757 - the principles of small unit tactics they worked out over 200 years ago; Characteristics of Leaders; 2d Mar Div - 2d MAW - The Wing; 2d Mar Div - 2d MAW - The Division; Do-it-yourself Linguist; Mr. Gish, You're the New S-2; This is BUWEPS; Marine Corps Reserve; Baseplate McGurk; LAW Rocket Grenade Launcher, XM 72; Promotions and Transfers; Back cover color ad for the McDonnell Phantom II with J79-GE-8 engines; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Handsome book in heavy weave brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine only. Later printing, text/interior is in excellent condition with no foxing or fading of the paper. Previous owner's name at front and back inside covers. 912 pages. Contents include Preventing the escape of heat -- lagging, Steam distribution -- steam quality, Instruments, Efficient opern of engines, traps, Condensate handling, Air and its removal, Heating in pans and evaporators, peak loads, multiple effect evaporation, Automatic controls, etc. A great many mechanical illustrations, tables, graphs, charts, technical data, formulae, fold-out pages in excellent condition. Dust jacket has some edge wear.
32 pages. Features: W. Chapin Condit Receives Award from Syracuse University; 1981 Apple Blossom Meet; Reunion of Former H.H. Franklin Employees; Letter from Bennett M. Derby, M.D.; 1904-5 Mitchell Air Cooled Runabout; Ralph Hamlin - A Man of His Time; Franklin Automobile Co. Owner's Bulletin No. 656, April 1922; Franklin Engines - 1902 through 1909 or John Wilkinson's Exhaust(ing) Heat Problems, Part I; 1915 Franklin Series 8; Franklin Automobile Co. Owner's Bulletin No. 639, 1917; Back cover reproduction of 1904 Franklin ad in Harper's Magazine. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy of this excellent issue. Book
266 pages including index. Illustrated with line drawings. Intended for students and young men engaged in the actual operation of steam plants. Chapters include: Reciprocating Steam Engines; Governors; Engine Calculations; The Indicator; Heat; Boilers; Pumps; Corliss Engines; Pipes and Fittings; Rotary Engines; Internal Combustion Engines; Lubrication. Former owner's name and date upon front endpaper. Half-inch tear to top of title page. Gilt lettering upon spine is worn but remains legible. Black boards well worn. Serviceable copy. Book
57 pages. "Offered for the purpose of acquainting the engineering personnel operating U.S. Maritime Commission's Liberty and Victory Ships with the piston ring details for engines and pumps using piston rings." - from title page. Company representative's sticker inside front board. Ink stamp of "Chief Engineer SS Henry Austin" atop front free endpaper. Average wear. Binding sound. A quality copy with attractive gilt lettering and decoration upon red front board. Book
From Anglia Television's Bygones series. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very slight traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 48pp. Dick King has been inventing devices of various kinds since his boyhood but his real enthusaism is steam. His models, whether engines or paddle steamers are a collector's dream, and he also produces weird and wonderful machines such as the Fogrophone.
pp. xv, 251. 12mo. Board covers. XLib. (Franklin Institute Library). Illustrated. Nice copy of this early French study of jet airplane engines. SPACE/7
8vo., First Edition, with plates; red cloth, gilt back,a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
No marks or inscriptions and no creasing to covers. A clean very tight copy with tiny markto rear, piece cut from advert page (competition ?) and no bumping to corners. 64pp. This book concentrtes more on operation than construction. From the publisher Ian Allan. Illustrated.
