Townsin, Alan,

BLUE TRIANGLE - Alan Townsin takes a nostalgic look at AEC buses.

Venture, Glossop, ND (copyright 1994), 1st edn., 260pp, line drawings, coloured and half tone ills. in text, laminated coloured photo pictorial boards, a history of AEC, from its origins in the London General Omnibus Company and its eventual establishment as Associated Eqipment Company Limited in 1912, from horse-drawn buses through the earliest petrol-electric wagons, going on to play a key role in the evolution of the motor bus for over fifty years, edges tanned, no dustwrapper, very good,

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Book number: 41208

Catalogue: Transport

Keywords: transport aec buses

Treacy, Eric, Allen, G. Freeman and Whitehouse, P. B.,

GREAT RAILWAY PHOTOGRAPHS BY ERIC TREACY.

Bounty / Chancellor Press, London, 2004, reprint, paperback, 216pp, coloured and half tone photo ills. throughout, large format (11 x 8.5 inches approx.), half tone photo pictorial wrappers, a selection from the lifetime's work of railway enthusiast, photographer and Lord Bishop of Wakfield, Eric Treacy, lightly rubbed at tips, near fine,

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Book number: 41209

Catalogue: Transport

Keywords: transport railways steam locomotives

Treacy, Eric,

LURE OF STEAM.

Ian Allan, London, 1985, reprint, 208pp, frontis and numerous in text half tone photo ills., oversize format 11 x 9 inches, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, col'd photo pictorial dustwrapper, a re-issue of the popular title as a tribute to one of the outsanding railway photographers of the era of steam, a brief text introduction and nearly 450 captioned photographs, lightly rubbed at tips, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at extrems., very good plus in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 28636

Catalogue: Transport

Keywords: steam railways great britain

Waters, Laurence,

THE POWER OF THE COUNTIES.

Oxford Publishing, Hersham, 2006, 1st edn., 112pp, half tone photo pictoial half title, frontis and title, half tone photo ills. throughout, large format (11 x 8.5 inches approx.), black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured photo pictorial dustwrapper, in the Power series, the development and operational history of the 'County' class locomotive, designed by F. W. Hawkesworth, the last Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Great Western Railway, the 30 of which that were produced having a relatively short life as a result of the dieselisation of Western Region after the 1955 Modernisation plan, fine in a fine dustwrapper,

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Book number: 41210

Catalogue: Transport

Keywords: transport railways steam locomotives counties

Whitehouse, Patrick and Thomas, David St. John (eds.),

THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY - 150 GLORIOUS YEARS.

David and Charles, Newton Abbot, 2002, reprint, paperback, 208pp, half tone photo pictorial frontis, map, diagrams, coloured and half tone ills. in text, large format (11 x 8.5 inches approx.), coloured pictorial upper wrapper, celebrating 150 years of the Great Western Railway with many historical photographs, probably the most prestigious of the four major railway companies, including the engineering feats of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, with plans and track layouts of major junctions and stations, lightly rubbed at tips, near fine,

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Book number: 41213

Catalogue: Transport

Keywords: transport railways steam locomotives great western

Whitehouse, Patrick and Thomas, David St. John,

LNER 150 - The London and North Eastern Railway - A century and a half of progress.

David and Charles, Newton Abbot, ND (copyright 1989), 1st edn., 208pp, numerous in text half tone and coloured photo ills., oversize 11 x 9 inches, grey cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, an history of the railway system that under the 1923 'grouping' became the London and North Eastern Railway, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, fine in a very good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 28646

Catalogue: Transport

Keywords: steam lner london north eastern railway great britain

Whitehouse, Patrick and Thomas, David St. John,

THE LONDON MIDLAND AND SCOTTISH RAILWAY - A CENTURY AND A HALF OF PROGRESS LMS 150.

David and Charles, Newton Abbot, 2002, paperback, 208pp, half tone photo pictorial frontis and title, maps, diagrams, coloured and half tone ills. in text, large format (11 x 8.5 inches approx.), coloured pictorial upper wrapper, celebrating 150 years of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway with many historical photographs, once the world's largest commercial organisation which built some of the finest locomotives and passenger coaches as well as conveying prodigious quantities of coal and serving isolated communities, lightly rubbed at tips, near fine,

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Book number: 41211

Catalogue: Transport

Keywords: transport railways steam locomotives london midland scottish

Whitehouse, Patrick and Thomas, David St. John,

THE LONDON AND NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY - A CENTURY AND A HALF OF PROGRESS LNER 150.

David and Charles, Newton Abbot, 2002, paperback, 208pp, half tone photo pictorial frontis, map, diagrams, coloured and half tone ills. in text, large format (11 x 8.5 inches approx.), coloured pictorial upper wrapper, celebrating 150 years of the London and North Eastern Railway with many historical photographs, the least glamorous of the old major railway companies but the home of the Flying Scotsman, holder of the world speed record for steam with Mallard and serving the most industrialised and poorest sections of Britain, from the Scottish ports in the north to Lowestoft in the east, lightly rubbed at tips, near fine,

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Book number: 41212

Catalogue: Transport

Keywords: transport railways steam locomotives london north eastern

Widdows, Nick (compiled by),

FERRIES 2002 - British Isles and Northern Europe Edition.

Ferry Publications, Ramsey, Isle of Man, 2002, 1st issue of 15th edn., 240pp, coloured photo ills. and maps throughout, laminated coloured pictorial boards, listing every passenger and vehicle ferry in Great Britain and Ireland and to nearby Continental destinations of Northern Europe, listing operators, vessels and services provided, lightly rubbed and faintly bumped at tips, no dustwrapper, very good plus,

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Book number: 39393

Catalogue: Transport

Keywords: transport maritime ferries passenger cargo

Wilson, Neil,

GREAT SEA DISASTERS - The World's Worst Sea Disasters.

Siena / Parragon, Bristol, 1998, 1st edn., 96pp, numerous in text ills. in colour, half tone and line, large landscape format (about 9 x 12 inches), laminated pictorial boards, matching dustwrapper, from the age of sail through steam to the modern day, the major disasters involving ships at sea, dustwrapper: unpriced, very lightly rubbed at tips, fine in a very good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 32045

Catalogue: Transport

Keywords: ships sea disasters