The Nation's Hangar
Aircraft Treasures of the Smithsonian
Written by Robert F. Van Der Linden
Photographed by Dane Penland
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: November 6, 2012
Price: $29.95
The Nation's Hangar: Aircraft Treasures of the Smithsonian offers a fascinating textual and visual history of civilian, military, and commercial aviation from the earliest balloon flights to today's most advanced aircraft.
The Nation's Hangar charts the awe-inspiring history of flight around the world. F. Robert Van Der Linden, a Smithsonian curator...
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Bradshaw's Continental Railway Guide (Abridged Version)
Written by George Bradshaw
Format: eBook, 416 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $15.99
*This electronic edition is an abridged version of the original 1548pp book. All the original text is included, along with a wealth of carefully selected examples from the several hundred pages of timetables and advertisements.*
Following its bestselling edition of Bradshaw’s Handbook 1863, Old House brings you this fascinating guide...
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Austerity Motoring 1939 - 1950
Written by Andrew Lane
Format: Trade Paperback, 32 pages
On Sale: July 20, 2010
Price: $11.95
The 1940s was the bleakest period in the brief history of the motorcar. It was a time of war, deprivation and austerity when, for almost a decade, car development stood still. Wartime motorists faced petrol and tyre rationing while the hazards of the blackout made driving in the dark a harrowing...
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The Flying Scotsman
The Train, The Locomotive, The Legend
Written by Bob Gwynne
Format: eBook, 56 pages
On Sale: August 23, 2011
Price: $9.95
Flying Scotsman is probably the most famous railway locomotive in the world. When it was new in 1923 it caused a sensation for its beauty and its speed, and the engine found itself at the center of media attention that continued throughout the decade and made it a household name -...
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Aviation Insecurity
The New Challenges of Air Travel
Written by Andrew R. Thomas
Format: Trade Paperback, 260 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2003
Price: $22.99
The events of September 11 compelled the American public to look at air travel as much more than merely another way of getting from point A to point B. An industry that was previously viewed as a routine component of modern transport is now seen as both a vital national asset...
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Family Cars of the 1970s
Written by James Taylor
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: October 23, 2012
Price: $12.95
The 1970s and 1980s were critical years for the British motor industry. A downward spiral in industrial relations led to crippling strikes; two major oil crises made thirsty older designs virtually unsaleable; and foreign manufacturers moved in with products that were affordable, reliable and available on demand.
Yet, by and large, British...
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Railway Posters
Written by Lorna Frost
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: July 24, 2012
Price: $9.95
Railway posters have a huge appeal to the modern audience, but just what is it that appeals to us? Enduring images of iconic locomotives, bathing beauties and characters such as Sunny South Sam are testament to the persuasive power of the railway company marketing departments established in the late nineteenth century...
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Mail Trains
Written by Julian Stray
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: July 24, 2012
Price: $9.95
Central to the prompt delivery of the nation's mail is its efficient transit throughout the country. From 1830, the Post Office relied increasingly on the overland rail network to achieve this. Railway Post Offices, Sunday Sorting Tenders and District Sorting Carriages were amongst the services introduced.
More important lines carried the famous...
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The End of Detroit
How the Big Three Lost Their Grip on the American Car Market
Written by Micheline Maynard
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: September 21, 2004
Price: $23.00
An in-depth, hard-hitting account of the mistakes, miscalculations and myopia that have doomed America’s automobile industry.In the 1990s, Detroit’s Big Three automobile companies were riding high. The introduction of the minivan and the SUV had revitalized the industry, and it was widely believed that Detroit had miraculously overcome the threat of...
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Tractors
1880s to 1980s
Written by Nick Baldwin
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: November 22, 2011
Price: $9.95
Of all motor vehicles the farm tractor has proved to be among the most beneficial. It has freed hundreds of thousands of laborers and horses from backbreaking toil on the land in all weathers and it has stabilized the cost of food.
Starting with steam power in the middle of the nineteenth...
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