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AEC Lorries in the Post-War Years (Hardback) - Graham Edge
Ref: 608B
The lorries covered in the first part of this book include the Mark III range of Matador, Monarch, Mammoth Major and Mandator, vehicles which were such a familiar sight on the roads of the 1950s.
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AEC Reliance (Hardback) - Gerald Truran & Philip Platt
Ref: 609B
In words and pictures, this is the story of the best-selling postwar AEC single-deck passenger chassis, the ‘Reliance’.This is a product of which Britain can be justly proud, a commercial success at home and overseas for over twenty-five years after its introduction in 1953.
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Atkinson (Hardback) - Peter Davies
Ref: 626B
In 1907, Edward Atkinson and his brother Harry set up an engineering business, Atkinson & Co, with another partner named George Hunt. World War I brought with it many extreme innovations in technology and the Hunt brothers were not to be left out of the expansion of the road haulage industry in particular. Their first steam wagon, the Atkinson ‘6T’, was highly successful when it was launched in 1916.
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Bedford Trucks & Vans in Colour (Hardback) - Peter Davies
Ref: 610B
Bedford rose to fame during the early 1930s and was a market leader for over half a century. Bedford commercial vehicles were as well known abroad as they were in Great Britain, having been exported to some 170 countries.
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Brewery Transport (Paperback) - Arthur Ingram
Ref: 634B
From the days of horse-drawn cart to the invention of the motor car, the brewery transport industry had to work hard to maintain an unambiguous and presentable image at all times; a habit that helped them to advertise their services as well as the product and therefore remain competitive.
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British Lorries of the 40s & 50s (Hardback) - Peter Davies
Ref: 611B
For truck drivers the post-war period was one of rapid change including nationalisation, de-nationalisation, excessive purchase tax on new vehicles and then, towards the end of the 1950s, sweeping progress in truck design.
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British Trucks at Work in the ’Sixties (Hardback) - Peter Davies
Ref: 612B
At the beginning of the 1960s motorways were beginning to make an impact on road transport, then in 1964 came legislation which permitted the use of 32-ton gross articulated vehicles in Britain. The period was therefore one of fascinating rapid change.
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BRS: a Pictorial History (Hardback) - Nick Baldwin
Ref: 607B
First published in 1982, this is an informed and highly illustrated account of British Road Services.
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BRS Parcels Services and the Express Carriers (Hardback) - Gordon Mustoe, Arthur Ingram & Robin Pearson
Ref: 613B
An extensive book telling a big story that ranges from the 1920s world of Scammell articulated units to the mid 2000s Mercedes, Renaults, MANs and DAFs of UPS, DHL and City Link. Using over 600 photographs, the authors set the story of BRS Parcels, its antecedents and successors in the context of the UK parcels industry as a whole.
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BRS: the early years 1948-1953 (Hardback) - Arthur Ingram and Gordon Mustoe
Ref: 614B
From the myriad of independent operators which were carrying a major part of the nation’s goods before the Transport Act of 1947, there evolved the vast British Road Services fleet which became so familiar throughout the country in the following years.
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Bus Company Service Vehicles (Paperback) - Colin Wright
Ref: 635B
A collection of photographs of commercial and public service vehicles (PSVs) utilised as support vehicles for bus operators. Originally published in the 1980s, this paperback illustrates the development of this industry from the 1920s to the 1980s with the help of concise and informative captions.
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A Century of Petroleum Transport (Hardback) - Graham Edge
Ref: 606B
This illustrated history of petroleum transport and distribution by road in Great Britain is a record of the vehicles and tankers used by the major producers in the past 100 years.
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Diamond T: Type 980/981 (Hardback) - Les Freathy & Robin Pearson
Ref: 615B
The 980 had its beginnings in 1940 when the British Purchasing Commission sought the assistance of the American truck industry in providing a heavy unit that would be capable of hauling the new generation of armoured fighting vehicles that were then coming into service with the British Army.
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Drawbar Outfits (Hardback) - Peter Davies
Ref: 636B
This book pays tribute to the ‘lorry and trailer’ used for normal everyday haulage from the 1930s to the 1970s. The period covered by the book also extends back almost to the beginning of lorry transport and forward to the 1990s.
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£7.50
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Eight Wheelers in Colour (Hardback) - Peter Davies
Ref: 627B
The eight-wheeled rigid dominated the British transport scene for decades, with a peak from the early post-war years up to the late 1960s. Few vehicles can look quite as impressive as a nicely liveried rigid eight, as the superb colour photographs in this book reveal.
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Fairground & Circus Transport (Hardback) - Denis N Miller & Bart H Vanderveen
Ref: 616B
Because of the showman’s superb skill as an engineer, virtually no circus or showground vehicle is the same as another. In this enthusiasts’ book first published in 1973, the authors selected the photographs which they felt to be most interesting and to show the most unique vehicles.
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Fairground Transport (Paperback) - Malcolm Slater
Ref: 637B
This paperback is a collection of photographs of the various vehicles utilised in fairground transport from the post-war period to the early 1980s.
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Family Affairs - Somerset & Dorset Hauliers (Hardback) - Michael Marshall
Ref: 617B
This book is a comprehensive narrative of the history and development of local transport hauliers in Somerset and Dorset. The primary industry of both these areas has been agriculture for centuries and the most obvious reason for the existence and growth of the number of fleets on the road has been in response to the need to transport these agricultural products.
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Fisher Renwick: a transport saga 1874-1972 (Hardback) - Gordon Mustoe
Ref: 618B
Fisher Renwick started as a north-eastern ship-owner which expanded rapidly when it introduced the Manchester-London steamers coastal liner service and built the Manchester dry docks.
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Foden: a Pictorial History (Hardback) - Peter Davies
Ref: 629B
Foden is one of the longest surviving truck manufacturers in the world with a record dating back to the mid-nineteenth century. Though it did not begin truck production at that early date, it has been manufacturing quality machines for nearly 150 years.
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Heavy Haulage and Abnormal Loads Volume 3 (Hardback) - David Lee
Ref: 619B
This third volume is an illustrated collection of the vehicles and support equipment involved in the transport of challenging and unique loads.
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Heavy Haulage and Abnormal Loads Volume 4 (Hardback) - David Lee
Ref: 620B
David Lee has selected photographs from the period 1970-2000, with the emphasis on the 1990s. The range of load and specialist haulage machinery are both wide.
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Heavy Transport International (Hardback) - Jan van Wees
Ref: 621B
After working as a truck driver in the crane hire company run in Holland by Van Seumeren, author Jan van Wees became a supervisor in the heavy haulage division of the same company. He began to work with heavy haulage equipment all over the world - and his work became his hobby.
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High, Wide & Heavy (Hardback) - David Lee
Ref: 622B
Since 2000 the heavy haulage industry has seen significant changes in the design and operation of their tractors and support machinery. The four-axle tractor model has gained popularity with hauliers, and manufacturers including DAF, MAN and Mercedes have produced successful models.
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Leyland Lorries - A Celebration (Hardback) - Arthur Ingram
Ref: 624B
The major purpose of this book is to mark the centenary of one of Britain’s greatest industries in general, and of one great manufacturer in particular: Leyland. Additionally, this book presents, for the first time, a collection of historic photographs showing the growth of Leyland’s major product - lorries.
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London’s Lorries: the 1950s and ’60s (Hardback) - Arthur Ingram
Ref: 625B
Using his own photographs, Arthur Ingram tells the story of lorry operation in the capital fifty to sixty years ago. He has created a personal record of period British-built vehicles run by many operators from nationally known giants to long-gone smaller hauliers, all set against a background of nostalgic street scenes.
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Opencast Coal - Plant & Equipment (Hardback) - Bill Huxley
Ref: 628B
This is a highly illustrated history of 50 years of opencast operations in Great Britain accompanied by short articles kindly contributed by experts from the industry.
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Pickfords: the Story of (Hardback) - Arthur Ingram
Ref: 633B
Pickfords goes back to the age of the packhorse; indeed at the end of the First World War they still had 1600 horses and 1900 horse vans in service. They had over thirty depots and a large number of steam wagons.
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Post Office Stores and Telephone Vehicles (Paperback) - Roundoak Publishing
Ref: 630B
A reprint of a 1980s publication, this photo book includes images of vehicles once used by the Post Office and Telephone services as well as the recent addition of an eight-page colour section devoted to British Telecom’s vehicles at work.
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Recovery Vehicles (Hardback) - Mick Waite
Ref: 631B
Vehicle recovery is a skill as old as motoring itself, starting with enterprising blacksmiths and garage owners in the early days of motoring when breakdowns were a frequent occurrence.
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Reed Transport, the History (Hardback) - John Marsh
Ref: 623B
The newsprint customers of a paper supplier such as Reed demanded absolutely reliable timed delivery, and even in the 1940s there were congestion and parking difficulties - compounded by street markets - particularly in London. Reed worked closely with the long-established transport company Perkins & Glover, taking them over so that by 1954 the name had changed to Reed Transport.
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Scammell: the Load Movers from Watford (Hardback) - Nick Georgano
Ref: 632B
The variety and ingenuity of Scammell designs are a fascination for any transport enthusiast. There were such extremes as Oliver North’s double-axle drive on the Pioneer which allowed remarkable cross-country performance and at the other end of the scale the Mechanical Horse which played such an essential role in moving local delivery work from the horse to motor transport.
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Tankers (Paperback) - Colin Wright
Ref: 638B
This is a carefully organised photo book of tanker manufacturers and models from the twentieth century. It includes manufacturers in alphabetical order and at least one page of photos per manufacturer with informative captions alongside.
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Views from the North (Hardback) - Photographs by Roger Kenney
Ref: 639B
Published as a tribute to the late Roger Kenney, this book contains many fine photographs selected from his extensive archive. Most of them were taken in the 1960s and ’70s.
moving local delivery work from the horse to motor transport.
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Whitbread: 250 years of brewery transport (Hardback) - Arthur Ingram
Ref: 640B
Transport is very much part of the public face of a brewery company, and good transport is crucial to its efficient operation. Arthur Ingram’s story of Whitbread’s transport covers a lot of ground from the beginning of the nineteenth century when horses and mules were the only options.
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£8.50
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Wynns Overseas (Hardback) - John Wynn
Ref: 641B
Established in 1863, Wynns developed into a market leader in the heavy haulage industry. It was known for solving the most difficult problems associated with the movement of indivisible loads and the installation of the equipment on site for its customers.
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£19.95
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