The Road Haulage Industry
Written by Chris Woodcock
Format: Trade Paperback, 56 pages
On Sale: February 23, 2010
Price: $12.95
Road haulage has been in existence for as long as roads themselves: wherever goods need to be moved across land, people have set themselves up in business to carry those goods. For hundreds of years horses were at the center of this business, but in the twentieth century everything changed, first...
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Sailing Barges
Written by Martin Hazell
Format: Trade Paperback, 32 pages
On Sale: March 4, 2008
Price: $11.95
In 1900 the majority of British shipping was still under sail. Today in Europe the sailing cargo boat is a thing of the past. However, the River Thames spritsail sailing barge, as a cargo carrier, survived until the very end of the age of sail, and these vessels are still to...
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Turnpike Roads
Written by Geoffrey N. Wright
Format: Trade Paperback, 32 pages
On Sale: November 18, 2008
Price: $11.95
Turnpike trusts were central to the development of English life for 150 years, contributing to economic and social development. For the first time, the need for an improved transport infrastructure was recognized as road users paid for repairs and improvements on over 20,000 miles of 'turnpiked' roads. Most of these eighteenth...
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Country Garage
Written by Llyn Morris
Format: Trade Paperback, 32 pages
On Sale: September 21, 2010
Price: $11.95
The advent of the internal combustion engine brought many changes to society, the most neglected of which is arguably the garages built throughout Britain to serve motor vehicles, which revolutionizd rural life. Yet, for all the fame attached to the now well known heroes of early motoring, their exploits depended upon...
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Lorries
1890s to 1970s
Written by Nick Baldwin
Format: Trade Paperback, 56 pages
On Sale: November 23, 2010
Price: $12.95
From lumbering house-shakers on solid tires to smooth turbo-power in the 1970s, the lorry has come a very long way in a remarkably short time. In the early competition between steam, petrol and electricity, the internal combustion engine had more or less won by the 1920s, after proving itself in World...
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Old Trolleybuses
Written by David Kaye
Format: Trade Paperback, 32 pages
On Sale: April 19, 2011
Price: $11.95
Interest in old trolleybuses increased when it became obvious in the early 1960s that their days were numbered. More recently, this interest has been boosted by the prospect of a new generation of trolleybuses serving the public in Britain in the twenty-first century.
Meanwhile, hundreds of hours of loving care have...
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Lorries
1890s to 1970s
Written by Nick Baldwin
Format: eBook, 56 pages
On Sale: November 22, 2011
Price: $9.95
From lumbering house-shakers on solid tires to smooth turbo-power in the 1970s, the lorry has come a very long way in a remarkably short time. In the early competition between steam, petrol and electricity, the internal combustion engine had more or less won by the 1920s, after proving itself in World...
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Airstream
The Silver RV
Written by Tara Cox
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: August 20, 2013
Price: $9.95
The Airstream is an eye-catching vintage classic. First appearing on American highways in the mid-1930s, these sleek aluminum icons were compact, cozy spaces that could hitched to the family car and taken out on the open road – and nearly a century later, their timeless design has lost none of its...
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