Books - "transport"
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The Coachbuilder Book of Designs (Second Edition) comprising engravings of Popular Australasian Vehicles with Tables of Measurements
Large quarto, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, 260pp, illus, VG+ (slight taning to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Facsimile reprint Dene Bindery 1979 (of JE Bishop & Co 1909)
KEYWORDS: transport coaches vehicles buggies carts gigs waggons traps brougham phaeton history
Twilight of Steam Train in New Zealand (1965-1971)
Ex library, lacks title page, imperial octavo softcover (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: No details
KEYWORDS: New Zealand transport trains steam engines
Vulcan Railcars in New Zealand
Imperial octavo stapled wrappers (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: New Zealand Railway & Locomotive Society 1981
KEYWORDS: New Zealand transport vulcan railcars railway history
163 Class F Locomotive
Imperial octavo stapled wrappers (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Steam Heritage1989
KEYWORDS: New Zealand steam engines class F locomotives transport railways
Military MotorCycles
Oblong quarto, green boards with gilt lettering to spine, unpaginated, illus, VG+ (some fading to boards) in d/w, VG (light soiling, slight creasing to edge)
PUBLISHER: B T Batsford Ltd 1985
KEYWORDS: military transport history motorcycles motorbikes
Electra Flying: The Lockheed 10 Electra in New Zealand and the Pioneering of the Main Trunk Air Service
Less common in this hardcover edition, quarto, illus glossy heavy card boards, illus eps, 120pp, illus, VG+ (v. slight fading to spine, puckering to last page)
PUBLISHER: Richard Waugh / Project Electra 1998
KEYWORDS: New Zealand aviation history Electra Lockheed 10 airline aeroplanes transport
Strait Crossing: The Ferries of Cook Strait through Time
Oblong quarto, illus glossy heavy card boards with white lettering to spine and yellow & white lettering to front board, printed rear eps, frontispiece, illus title page, 256pp, illus, nr fine
PUBLISHER: Transpress NZ 2009
KEYWORDS: New Zealand ferry transport history passenger ships Cook Strait ferries boats ships
Canterbury Provincial Railways: Genesis of the N.Z.R System
Super octavo, light yellow boardswith black lettering to front board, illus eps, viii + 190pp, illus, VG (prev owners signature in ink to fep and title page, light wear to spine extrems, light foxing to page edges,) in d/w, VG (moderately soiling and wear to covers, old price tag to front cover which has been half removed causing surface loss to cover)
PUBLISHER: New Zealand Railway & Locomotive SOciety 1964
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Canterbury railway transport NZR railways trains locomotives steam engines
Dominion Museum Monograph No.7: The Maori Canoe: An Account of Various Types of Vessels used by the Maori of New Zealand in Former Times with some Description of those of the Isles of the Pacific and a Brief Account of the Peopling of New Zealand
First edition, large quarto, beige light card covers with black lettering to front & handwritten title to spine, iv + 312pp, illus, VG (archival tape repairs to spine and to open tear on front cover, moderate tanning to covers, rusting stains to staple surrounds, moderate foxing to eps and page edges)
PUBLISHER: Board of Maori Ethnological Research / Dominion Museum 1925
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Maori Pacific history transport canoes wakas exploration travel
More Unusual Railways
Possibly uncorrected proof copy, octavo softcover (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: Frederick Muller Ltd 1960
KEYWORDS: transport history railways monorails guide-rail gradients Talgo moving platforms
The New Zealand Official Year-Book 1902
Octavo, brown buckram boards with gilt lettering & black decorative rule to spine & front board, patterned eps, frontispiece map, vi + 699pp, illus plus 2 folding tables to rear, VG (some browning to page edges, some staining to boards, owner's name address & date in ink to front pastedown, front & rear hinge paper torn, occasional foxing, 3cm closed tear to large folding chart at rear)
PUBLISHER: John Mackay GOvt. Printer 1902
KEYWORDS: New Zealand year book history statistics industry agriculture politics shipping transport
Straphangers & Grippers: The Ups and Downs of the Mornington Cable-Car System 1883-1957
Small quarto softcover (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: Otago Heritage Books 1994
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Dunedin Morning cablecar transport history
NAC: The Illustrated History of New Zealand National Airways Corporation 1947-1978
First edition, oblong quarto, illus glossy heavy card boards with white lettering to red spine, printed rear ep, 320pp, illus, VG+
PUBLISHER: Kynaston Charitable Trust / Craig Printing 2007
KEYWORDS: New Zealand NAC National Airways corporation aviation airline transport history
Farewell to Trains: A Lifetime's Journey along Britain's Changing Railways
Large quarto hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples.Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: Frances Lincoln Ltd 2013
KEYWORDS: Britain British railways transport trains history
Leyland Bus MK 2
Large quarto, brown faux leather boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, ix + 524pp, illus, VG+ (v slight foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (slight rubbing to rear)
PUBLISHER: Transport Publishing Co 1984
KEYWORDS: Leyland bus buses transport manufacture history
The Anatomy of Canals: The Early Years
Quarto softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: Tempus Publishing 2002
KEYWORDS: canals british uk history transport
Industrial Narrow Gauge Railways in Britain
Square super octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: D. Bradford Barton 1975
KEYWORDS: britain british transport trains steam locomotives industrial narrow gauge railways railway history engineering
The NZR Steam Locomotive
Large quarto, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, illus half- & title pages, 336pp, illus, nr fine (slight tanning), in d/w, nr fine
PUBLISHER: New Zealand Railway & Locomotive Society 2011
KEYWORDS: New Zealand rail transport trains steam engines locomotives history
One More Mile on the NZR
First edition, large quarto, blue boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus title page, 128pp, illus, nr fine in d/w, nr fine
PUBLISHER: The Junction Press 2003
KEYWORDS: New Zealand rail transport trains steam engines locomotives history
NZR Rolling Stock Data: See Locomotive & Workshops' Code Instructions No.12
Large oblong quarto, blue spiral-bound light card covers with yellow lettering to front, unpaginated, VG+ (slight tanning to page edges)
PUBLISHER: No publisher or date
KEYWORDS: New Zealand transport rolling stock schematic drawings