DVDs covering the construction of dams, the operation of steel mills as well as steam traction engines, steam threshing and other steam-powered machines.
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Farming with Steam (DVD) - Insight Films
Ref: 862D
This programme shows the impact on agriculture of steam in the 19th and early 20th century. It records in detail both portable engines and traction engines in action...
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£14.95
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Gardner: L. Gardner & Sons Ltd (Paperback) - Graham Edge
Ref: 659B
This book by historical transport expert Graham Edge is a comprehensive study of a Manchester company whose name became revered in over forty countries. It traces the story from the origins of the firm in 1868 until it ceased engine production almost 130 years later.
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£19.95
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Kings of Construction (8-DVD set) - Discovery Channel
Ref: 895D
Over 6½ hours of viewing on this 8-DVD set which tells the stories of some of the world’s most demanding building projects. These pioneering dreams require ambitious designs, vast amounts of money and nerves of steel as engineers, builders and architects attempt to deliver on time and to budget.
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£21.95
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Know Your Trains (Paperback) - James Race
Ref: 671B
Know Your Trains shows the wide range of different trains to be found on the railways of Great Britain today. All 44 the trains featured can be found on the national network.
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£4.99
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Manapouri The Toughest Tunnel (DVD) - NHNZ and TVNZ
Ref: 301D
New Zealand’s remote Doubtful Sound, in the south-west of the South Island, is a stunning area of tranquil lakes, plunging fjords and dense rainforests fed by 200 inches of rain a year.
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£14.95
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Romance of Engineering, A (DVD) : National Library of Scotland
Ref: 211D
This archive DVD comprises four films made for Scottish engineering companies. Men of Iron (c. 1947), A Romance of Engineering (1938), James Watt (1959), Story of a Steel Wire Rope (1946).
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£19.95
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Steam at Strumpshaw (DVD) - Brian Bell
Ref: 861D
Norfolk’s Strumpshaw steam museum is the venue for a rally held in wooded parkland each spring...
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£15.95
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Suffolk Steam Railways (Paperback) - David Kindred
Ref: 588B
The 200 photographs in this book reflect the diversity and importance that steam once had in East Anglia. For a hundred years it was the main carrier of people and freight, and a major employer, even though Suffolk was a mainly agricultural county with relatively few lines.
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£12.95
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Threshers and Threshing (DVD) - Country Films
Ref: 854D
In the glory days of threshing the equipment travelled from farm to farm with steam traction engine or tractor...
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£15.95
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Young in Heart: Scottish industry in action (DVD) - National Library of Scotland
Ref: 224D
The five archive films in this collection record a variety of enterprises from Scotland’s industrial and energy heritage. They range from 1958 to 1975.
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