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Beaumont, Anthony Traction Engines on Parade, MAP, 1967, pp58. Small landscape format Pb. VG. Fifty-eight photographs by Anthony Beaumont. £2.95
Beaumont, Anthony Steam on the Road, IA, 1979, pp96. Landscape format Hb. VG+/VG. Lettering on the spine slightly faded. Illustrations of working traction engines and steam wagons. £5.95
Bloom, Alan 250
Years of Steam, World's Work, 1981, pp195.
"Largish" format Hb. Very
Good+ / Very Good. Deals with all
aspects of steam including stationary engines, marine engines, road locomotives,
steam carriages and steam wagons. £4.95
Brown, Kenneth; Riley R C; and Thomas, Alan British Road Steam Vehicles: Pictorial History of British Traction Engines, Steam Rollers and Steam Waggons, Collins & Brown, 1999, pp112. Glazed boards with dw. VG+/VG. An all-colour illustrated survey of the traction engine and steam lorry preservation scene. £4.95
Clark, Ronald H Chronicles of a Country Works: Being a History of Messrs Charles Burrell & Sons Ltd of Thetford, the famous traction engine builders, Percival Marshall, 1952, pp305 with 167 illustrations & diagrams. Hb. VG/Fair. Dw internally repaired at the corners, and at the head & base of the spine. £95.00
Clark, Ronald H The Development of the English Steam Wagon, Goose and Son, 1963, pp237 with 314 drawings & illustrations. Hb. VG/VG. Dw internally repaired at the head of the spine. £60.00
Clark, Ronald H A Traction Engine Miscellany, Goose & Son, 1975, pp243 with 349 figures & illustrations. Large Format Hb. VG+/VG+. £48.50
Clymer, Floyd Album of Historical Steam Traction Engines and Threshing Equipment No.1, Floyd Clymer, 1949, pp160. Large Format Pb. VG-. Slight wear to the top & base of the spine, colour faded on the spine, small internally repaired tear to the top front corner of the cover. American traction engines from 1855 to 1929 with 470 photos, drawings & charts and 105 different makes. £7.50
Crawley, John Steam Traction Engines in Camera, John Crawley, 1987, 310 illustrations. Large Format Hb. Fine/VG. A one-inch internally-repaired tear in the dw at the head of the spine. A pictorial record of traction engines from the beginning of the 20th century until the mid 50s. £8.50
Endacott
D L Steam in the West,
D&C, 1974, pp96. Hb.
VG-/VG. Wear to the inside
of the covers along the bottom edge, dw spine slightly sunned.
A pictorial survey of steam in the West Country with sections on
Showman’s Engines, Showman’s Tractors, Agricultural Engines, Rollers,
Ploughing Engines, Steam Wagons, Working Outfits, Fair Organs & Rides,
Railways, Ships and Models. £3.95
Finch, Barry J Traction Engines in Colour, IA, 1980, pp112. Landscape format Hb. VG/VG-. Slight wear to the covers at the base of the spine, wear to the dw at the head & base of the spine. A visual record of the steam traction engine. £5.95
Gillford F H The Traction Engine, Oak, 1966, pp28 with 41 photos by J. P. Mullett. Locomotion Papers No.8. Pb. VG+. A history of the British traction engine based on a series of articles published in Engineering during the 30's. £4.95
Hughes W J Building the Allchin: Modelling Royal Chester a 1 1/2 inch general purpose traction engine, Model & Allied Publications, 1979, pp256 with numerous drawings & illustrations throughout. First published as a series of articles in Model Engineer. Pb. VG-. Slight rubbing to the covers down the edges of the spine, some neat underlining on page 13. Contains a full set of working drawings, plus many valuable sketches to simplify the machining work. £18.50
J & H McLaren Catalogue No.32: Traction Engines, Traction Wagons, Steam Road Rollers etc, Midland Engine Works Leeds, Michael Dunkley, pp69. Large Format Pb. Fine. An undated reprint of an illustrated catalogue originally issued in June 1914. £12.50
Johnson, Brian Steam
Traction Engines, Wagons and Rollers, Blandford, 1971, pp180.
Small format Hb. VG /VG.
One-inch "wear" mark from an old price sticker on the front dw.
A brief history of traction engines followed by 158 coloured plates with
separate extended descriptions. £3.95
Judkins K More
of My Life in Steam, Oakwood, pp55 plus pp16 of plates. No date. Hb.
Very Good+ / Very Good. Small
tear in the dw near the head of the spine. Stories of the author's days as
a driver of steam lorries and of demonstrating Sentinel geared railway
locomotives. £24.50
Kidner R W The First Hundred Road Motors, Oakwood, 1950, pp58 plus pp20 of illustrations. Pb. Fair. Foxing to the covers and page edges. An account of the first 100 powered road vehicles in the world, most of which were steam powered. £8.50
Kidner R W The Steam
Lorry, Oakwood, 2nd revised edition 1956, pp28 with pp12 of illustrations.
First published in 1948. Locomotion
Papers No.3. Pb.
VG. Slight wear to the
covers. £3.95
Lane, Michael R The Story of Steam Plough Works; Fowlers of Leeds, Northgate, 1980, pp410 with 530 figures & illustrations. Large Format Hb. Fine/VG. A monumental history covering the entire independent existence of the company. £48.50
Lockett,
David and Arlett, Mike Traction
Engines: A Colour Portfolio, IA, 2002, pp80. Landscape format. Glazed
board. VG+ pp80. A collection of
the traction engine photographs taken by Norman Lockett. £5.95
Middlemiss, John L and Sawford, Eric William Allchin Globe Works, Northampton, Allan T. Condie, 1990, pp100 with pp3 of colour. British Engine Builders - 1. Large Format Pb. Fine. A mainly pictorial tribute to the company's products. £18.50
Sawford, Eric Steaming
On: Engines & Wagons from the Golden Age of Steam Power, Sutton
Publishing, 1998, pp150. Hb.
Very Good+ / Very Good. Stain
to the top corner of the flyleaf. Includes
over 200 photographs to illustrate the wide range of steam traction engines and
wagons that have survived, and tells the stories of the manufacturers who
produced traction engines. £5.95
Sawford, Eric Road Locomotives and Tractors from the Golden Age of Steam Power, Alan Sutton, 1999, pp178. Hb. Very Good+ / Very Good. Mark from an old price sticker on the rear dw. Over 200 photographs with sections on Showman's Road Locomotives, Showman's Tractors, Road Locomotives and Steam Tractors. £7.50
Whitehead R A Kaleidoscope of Steam Wagons, Marshall Harris & Baldwin, 1979, 153 extensively-captioned illustrations. Large Format Hb. VG+/VG. Dw spine sunned. £12.50
Whitehead R A Kaleidoscope of Traction Engines, Marshall Harris & Baldwin, 1st edition 1980. Large Format Hb. Fine/VG. With 147 extensively-captioned illustrations. £8.50
Whitehead, Robert A Age of the Traction Engine, Fraser Stewart, 1994, pp96. First published in 1970 by Ian Allan. Glazed boards with dw. VG+/VG+. An illustrated account of the work performed by steam traction engines. £4.95
Wilkes, Peter An Illustrated History of Traction
Engines, Spurbooks, 1974, pp144 and 76 illustrations.
Hb. Very Good+ / Very Good.
Slight foxing to the page edges. £8.50
Wise, David Burgess Steam on the Road, Hamlyn, 1974, pp96. Large Format Hb. VG+/VG-. Small loss from the dw at the base of the spine. An illustrated history of steam vehicles, including the application of steam power in agriculture, heavy haulage, goods & passenger transport, and in private vehicles. £3.95
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