Veen, K.H.C.W. van der & Gerbers, W.J.P..

Spoorwegbouw. Deel I: De bovenbouw van de weg.

Amsterdam/ Antwerpen; 1957; uitgeversmaatschappij Kosmos; linnen met stofomslag; fig.; 156 p.

Var. authors. Les Chemins de Fer aux U.S.A. Mission d'Assistance Technique no. 14. Rapport d'un groupe d'Experts européens. Paris; 1952; l'Organisation Européene de Coopération Économique; softcover; ills., folding plates; tables; 465 pp. Cover a trifle worn. [33638]

Sinclair Drago, Harry.

Stagecoach Kingdom.

S.l.; 1951; Frederick Muller Ltd.; pocket book edition; 230 pp.

Seumeren, Gerard van & Piet Kievit.

Kees en Dick op het Station. Kees en Dick-Serie, eerste deel.

Amsterdam/ Den Haag/ Rotterdam; zonder jaar; De Bijenkorf; softcover, geniet; oblong; ill. in kleur, zwart wit plaatjes in de blanco marges; 32 p.

Officieele gids der feestelijkheden ter gelegenheid van het honderd-jarig bestaan der spoorwegen in Nederland, te Utrecht van 25 september tot 23 october 1939.

Utrecht; 1939; Comité Personeel Utrecht, Eeuwfeest Nederlandsche Spoorwegen; slappe kaft; ontwerp voorplat en tekeningen binnenwerk door A. Frederiks; foto's in zwart wit; 62 p., waaronder de nodige bladzijden met advertenties.

No author.

The Engineer. Weekly issue. Vol. XCV- from January to June 1903.

London; 1903; Office for Publication and Advertisements; halfcloth with marbled boards; 4o; with a wide range of articles and reviews; relating industrial developments and overlooking innovative projects, machinery, engines, tools, etc.; numerous ills., fig., plates, plans, diagrams, wood engravings; articles, reviews in this volume i.a.: express locomotive South-Eastern and Chatham Railway (Mr. Harry S. Wainwright, Ashford, engineer), with a folding supplement with plans and fig.; Messrs. Yarrow and Company's Works at Poplar, with ills.; Dover harbour works, with ills.; horse ploughs, with ills.; the Great Eastern Railway Company's Works at Stratford, with ills.; London United Electric Tramways Limited at Chiswick, with ills.; South African railway men, with ills.; H.M.S. "Commonwealth" (the Fairfield Shipbuilding Company, Glasgow, builders), with ills.; the Paderno viaduct, with ills.; French racing motor cars, with ills.; bridges destroyed by the Boers, with ills.; express locomotive Midland Railway (Mr. Samuel Johnstone, Derby, engineer), with a folding, woodengraved, view of the locomotive; 5,000 horse-power quadruple-expansion engines of the Orient-Pacific Liner "Orontes", with a folding, woodengraved, view of the engines; index; XVI, 664 pp.

No author.

The Engineer. Weekly issue. Vol. XCIX- from January to June 1905.

London; 1905; Office for Publication and Advertisements; halfcloth with marbled boards; 4o; with a wide range of articles and reviews; relating industrial developments and overlooking innovative projects, machinery, engines, tools, etc.; numerous ills., fig., plates, plans, diagrams, wood engravings; articles, reviews in this volume i.a.: the Baltic fleet, some typical vessels, with ills.; the building of the Japanese battleship "Kashima" (Sir W.G. Armstrong, Whitworth and Co., Newcastle-on-Tyne, builders), with, i.a., a double page supplement with ills.; Larkhall and Stonehouse viaducts, Caledonian Railway, with folding supplement with plans and fig.; compound express locomotive, Great Northern Railway (Mr. H.A. Ivatt, Doncaster, engineer), with a folding, woodengraved, view of the locomotive; Cargo Fleet Ironworks Furnaces and Coke Ovens, with double page supplement with ills.; four cylinder compound express locomotive Bavarian State Railways (Herr J.A. Maffei, Munich, engineer), with a folding, woodengraved, view of the locomotive; Hotchkiss six-pounder semi-automatic gun (Hotchkiss Ordnance Company, London, engineers), with ills.; Italian battleship "Regina Margherita", with a folding, woodengraved, view of the ship; index; XVI, 662 pp.

No author.

The Engineer. Weekly issue. Vol. XCIII- from January to June 1902.

London; 1902; Office for Publication and Advertisements; halfcloth with marbled boards; 4o; with a wide range of articles and reviews; relating industrial developments and overlooking innovative projects, machinery, engines, tools, etc.; numerous ills., fig., plates, plans, diagrams, wood engravings; articles, reviews in this volume i.a.: six-coupled express locomotive, Eastern Railway of France (M.L. Salomons, engineer, Eastern Works at Epernay, builders), with a double page supplement with a woodengraved view of the locomotive; twin-screw triple-expansion engines, s.s. Arundel (William Denny and Brothers, Dumbarton, engineers), with a folding, woodengraved, view of the engines; metre-gauge Fairlie engines, Burma Railway Company (the Vulcan Foundry Company, Newton-le-Willows, engineers), with a folding, woodengraved, view of the engines; peat fuel works, Stangfiorden, Norway, with ills.; eight-coupled coal engine, North Eastern Railway, with a folding, woodengraved, view of the engine; Electrolytic Alkali Works at Middlewich, with ills.; His Majesty's first class battleship "Queen" (constructed at Devonport dockyard), with a folding plate with a view of the ship; French self-propelled lorries, with ills.; compound narrow-gauge locomotive, Indian-Netherlands Railway, Java (Mr. B.A. Gratama, Java, engineer), with a view of the locomotive; index; XVI, 640 pp.

No author.

The Engineer. Weekly issue. Vol. LXXXIV- from July to December 1897.

London; 1897; Office for Publication and Advertisements; halfcloth with marbled boards; 4o; with a wide range of articles and reviews; relating industrial developments and overlooking innovative projects, machinery, engines, tools, etc.; numerous ills., fig., plates, plans, diagrams, wood engravings; articles, reviews in this volume i.a.: compound goods locomotive, Northern Pacific Railway (The Schenectady Locomotive Works, engineers), with a folding, woodengraved, plate with a view of the locomotive; the Jungfrau railway, with ills.; four-coupled bogie tank engine, London, Tilbury and Southend Railway (Mr. Th. Whitelegg, Plaistow, engineer), with a folding plate (ca. 80x55 cm.) with plans and fig.; Messrs. Davey, Paxman and Co.'s works, Colchester, with ills.; Davis's motor car steering gear, with fig.; ten-wheeled mineral engine, Great Western Railway (Mr. William Dean, Swindon, engineer), with a folding, woodengraved, plate with a view of the engine; tank locomotive, Indian State Railways (Messrs. Neilson & Co., locomotive works, Glasgow, engineers), with a folding, transparent paper, plate with plans and fig.; Canadian ferry steamer "Chebucto" (Messrs. John Shearer and Sons, Glasgow, builders), with plans and fig.; winding engines for the Ebbw Vale Steel, Iron and Coal Company, Limited, with a folding plate with plans and fig.; sixty years of Thames shipbuilding and marine engineering, with ills.; Hungarian paddle steamer I. Ferencz Jozef (Messrs. the Danubius Schoenichen and Hartmann Ship and Machine Construction Company, Budapest, builders and engineers), with a folding plate with plans and fig.; the Ameer of Afghanistan's gun factories (Sir T. Salter Pyne, engineer), with ills.; locomotives for the Waterford, Limerick and Western Railway (messrs. Kitson and Co., Leeds, engineers), with a double page plate with woodengraved ills.; ice-breaking steamer "Sleipner" (Burmeister and Wain, Copenhagen, engineers), with plans and fig.; index; XVI, 662 pp.

No author.

The Engineer. Weekly issue. Vol. LXXVIII- from July to December 1894.

London; 1894; Office for Publication and Advertisements; halfcloth with marbled boards; 4o; with a wide range of articles and reviews; relating industrial developments and overlooking innovative projects, machinery, engines, tools, etc.; numerous ills., fig., plates, plans, diagrams, wood engravings; articles, reviews in this volume i.a.: twin-screw steamship "Duke of York"- engines and boilers (messrs. Denny Brothers, Dumbarton, builders and engineers), with folding plate with plans and fig.; solid rock dredger "Majestic", for Bermuda (Messrs. Lobnitz and Co., Renfrew, engineers), with folding plate with plans and fig.; express passenger locomotive, Dutch railways- Cologne-Amsterdam service, with a woodengraved view of the locomotive; the "Gigantic Wheel" at Earle's Court, with ills.; six-coupled Bogie goods engine, Highland Railways (constructed by Messrs. Sharp Stewart and Co., Glasgow, from the designs of Mr. D. Jones, Inverness), with a folding, woodengraved, plate; the "General Skinner", submarine mining steamer (Messrs. Cox and Co., Falmouth, builders and engineers), with folding plate with plans and fig.; the New Victoria Bridge over the Brisbane River (Mr. A.R. Brady, engineer), with folding plate with plans and fig.; the Chilian cruiser "Blanco Encalada" (Messrs. Sir W.G. Armstrong, Mitchell and Co., Newcastle-on-Tyne, builders), with a folding, woodengraved, plate with a view of the ship; views on the Congo railway, with ills.; index; XVI, 582 pp.

No author.

The Engineer. Weekly issue. Vol. CXLVII- from January to June 1929.

London; 1929; Office for Publication and Advertisements; halfcloth with marbled boards; 4o; with a wide range of articles and reviews; relating industrial developments and overlooking innovative projects, machinery, engines, tools, etc.; numerous ills., fig., plates, plans, diagrams, wood engravings; articles, reviews in this volume i.a.: Ljungström locomotive for the Argentine State Railways (The Nydqvist and Holm A.B., Sweden, engineers), with double page supplement with plans and fig.; the Cascade Tunnel, Great Northern Railway, with ills. and fig.; the Hudson River Bridge, witth figures; the British industries fair (some of the exhibits at Birmingham), with ills.; the Coolidge irrigation dam in Arizona, with double page supplement, with ills.; steam generator for the Southwick power station, Brighton, with double page supplement with plans and fig.; index; XVI, 722 pp.

No author.

The Engineer. Weekly issue. Vol. CXLIV- from July to December 1927.

London; 1927; Office for Publication and Advertisements; halfcloth with marbled boards; 4o; with a wide range of articles and reviews; relating industrial developments and overlooking innovative projects, machinery, engines, tools, etc.; numerous ills., fig., plates, plans, diagrams, wood engravings; articles, reviews in this volume i.a.: the Super-Sentinel "Rhinoceros" steam tractor (the Sentinel Waggon Works, Shrewsbury, engineers), with plans and fig.); the Ferrybridge Station of the Yorkshire Electric Power Company (W.B. Woodhouse, engineer), with ills.; the 24,000-ton twin-screw motor liner "Saturnia", with ills.; L.M. and S. Railway- three-cylinder express locomotive "Royal Scot", with double page supplement with plans and fig.; Panama Pacific liner "California"- propelling motors (the General Electric Company, engineers), with ills.; the "Singapore"all-metal flying boat (Short Brothers, Rochester, engineers), with ills.; East River Station, New York, with plans; the motor car ferry boat "Fishbourne" (WM. Denny and Brothers, Dumbarton, builders); with plans and fig.; the Gladstone docks, Liverpool, with ills.; index; XVI, 754 pp.

No author.

The Engineer. Weekly issue. Vol. CLIII- from January to June 1932.

London; 1932; Office for Publication and Advertisements; halfcloth with marbled boards; 4o; with a wide range of articles and reviews; relating industrial developments and overlooking innovative projects, machinery, engines, tools, etc.; numerous ills., fig., plates, plans, diagrams, wood engravings; articles, reviews in this volume i.a.: the White Star liner "Georgic" (Harland and Wolff, Belfast, builders and engineers), with plans and ills.; Prettyboy Dam, Maryland, with ills.; London, Midland and Scottish Railway Company's road-rail vehicle, with ills.; American sea-going train-ferry steamers, with ills.; electrical equipment at the Mount Isa Mines, Queensland, with ills.; L.N.E.R. widening- Romford junction to Romford factory, with ills.; exhibits at the Leipzig technical fair, with ills.; the Darlington Rustless Steel and Iron Company's Works, Darlington, with ills.; the Barnsbury Works of Negretti and Zambra, with ills.; the new Central Railway Station at Milan, with ills.; index; XII, 708 pp.

No author.

The Engineer. Weekly issue. Vol. CLII- from July to December 1931.

London; 1931; Office for Publication and Advertisements; halfcloth with marbled boards; 4o; with a wide range of articles and reviews; relating industrial developments and overlooking innovative projects, machinery, engines, tools, etc.; numerous ills., fig., plates, plans, diagrams, wood engravings; articles, reviews in this volume i.a.: Buenos Aires and Pacific Railway- three-cylinder tank engine (Robert Stephenson and Co., Darlington, engineers), with double page supplement with plans and fig.; Shanghai waterworks (C.D. Pearson, Shanghai, engineer), with ills.; the commercial motor transport exhibition at Olympia, with ills.; kearsley power station- Lancashire electric power company, with double page supplement with plans and fig.; coal handling plant near Shanghai for the Kailan mining administration, with plans and ills.; the Royal agricultural show at Warwick, with ills.; a visit to the B.T.H. Rugby Works, with ills.; index; XVI, 690 pp.

No author.

The Engineer. Weekly issue. Vol. CLI- from January to June 1931.

London; 1931; Office for Publication and Advertisements; halfcloth with marbled boards; 4o; with a wide range of articles and reviews; relating industrial developments and overlooking innovative projects, machinery, engines, tools, etc.; numerous ills., fig., plates, plans, diagrams, wood engravings; articles, reviews in this volume i.a.: the port of London authority's floating grain elevator "Thomas Wiles" (Hnery Simon, Manchester, engineers), with plans and fig.; the South Indian Railway- electric locomotive and train (the English Electric Company, London, engineers), with ills.; the propelling machinery of H.M. destroyer "Acheron" (the Parsons marine steam turbine company, Wallsens-on-Tyne, contractors), with double page supplement with plans and ills.; the Florence-Bologna direttissima railway and the Great Apennine tunnel, with ills.; the Kill van Kull Bridge, New York, with ills.; the Martinez-Benicia Bridge- Suisun Bay, California, with ills.; the Acton precious metals refinery of the Mond Nickel Company, with ills.; aeronautics in 1930, with ills.; index; XVI, 722 pp.

No author.

The Engineer. Weekly issue. Vol. CL- from July to December 1930.

London; 1930; Office for Publication and Advertisements; halfcloth with marbled boards; 4o; with a wide range of articles and reviews; relating industrial developments and overlooking innovative projects, machinery, engines, tools, etc.; numerous ills., fig., plates, plans, diagrams, wood engravings; articles, reviews in this volume i.a.: 70-ton breakdown crane for the New South Wales Government Railways (constructed by Messrs. Craven Bros., engineers, Reddish), with double page supplement with plans and fig.; Nutfield Road Brickworks, South Merstham, Surrey (the Vimax Machinery Company, London, engineers), with ills.; the Chantarella-Corviglia cable railway at St. Moritz, with ills.; Southern Railway- new steel swing bridge at Folkestone Harbour (George Ellson, London, engineer), with plans and fig.; the Union-Castle motor liner "Winchester Castle" (Harland and Wolff, builders and engineer), with ills.; Vitkovice Steel Works, with ills.; wreckage of the R101- aerial view, with ills.; international agricultural tractor trials, with ills.; the Perak River hydro-electric power scheme, with double page supplement with ills.; the Canadian Pacific liner "Empress of Japan" (the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan, builders and engineers), with ills.; the Britannia valve works of Hopkinsons, Huddersfield, with double page supplement with ills.; index; XV, 722 pp.

No author.

Industries: a journal of engineering, electricity, & chemistry for the mechanical and manufacturing trades. Vol. XII- January to June, 1892 (In one binding).

London; 1893; halfcloth with marbled boards; 29x33,5 cm.; a wide range of articles and reviews; relating industrial developments and innovative projects, engines, machinery, tools, etc.; extensive index; subjects comprising i.a.: "The United States cruiser New York, constructed by Messrs. Cramp, Philadelphia", "The Dutch armed cruiser "Reinier Claeszen, constructed at the Royal dockyard, Amsterdam", "Ten-wheeled tank locomotive, constructed at the government railway workshops, Christchurch, with a loosely inserted folding plate of the locomotive", "H.M.S. Ramillies, built by Messrs. James & George Thomson, Clydebank", "River steamers for Indian railways", "New railway bridge over the river Medway, designed by Mr. Francis Brady", with a wood engraved general view of the bridge; "The Dutch armed cruiser Koningin Wilhelmina der Nederlanden, in course of construction at the Royal dockyard, Amsterdam", with a general plan; "H.M.S. Royal Sovereign, constructed at Portsmouth dockyard, and engined by Messrs. Humphrys, Tennant & Co, Deptford, London", with a general view of the vessel; "The new paddle steamer Princess May, constructed by Messrs. William Denny & Bros., Dumbarton", with a general view of the vessel; "Torpedo vessel for the United States navy", with sectional plans and elevations; "The torpedo gunboat Temerario, constructed for the Spanish government at Carthagena", with a general view of the vessel; numerous ills., figures, plans, wood engravings; brisk illustrations and leaves, well preserved copy; XIII, 624 pp.

No author.

Industries: a journal of engineering, electricity, & chemistry for the mechanical and manufacturing trades. Vol. XIV- January to June, 1893 (In one binding).

London; 1893; halfcloth with marbled boards; 29x33,5 cm.; a wide range of articles and reviews; relating industrial developments and innovative projects, engines, machinery, tools, etc.; richly illustrated, i.a. numerous woodengravings; subjects comprising: "Improved railway wheel turning lathe, constructed at the London and North-Western railway company's works, Crewe", with a wood engraved general view of lathe; "A wood engraved folding insert, supplement, of a six-wheeled coupled Baldwin locomotive Ramleh for the Jaffa and Jerusalem railway, constructed by Messrs. Burnham, Williams & Co., Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia", with a general view of engine and tender; "Proposed new road-bridge across Darling Harbour, Sydney, premiated design by Messrs. A.C. Pain, M.Inst. C.E. and R. Lilljeqvist, London", with plans; "Proposed new road-bridge, across Darling Harbour, Sydney, premiated design by Mr. J.J. Webster, London", with plans; "Gun tests of the U.S. dynamite cruiser Vesuvius", with i.a. a view of the vessel under steam; "The new Cunard T.S. Steamship "Campania, constructed by the Fairfield shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan", with a wood engraved general view of the vessel; "Winby's four-cylinder express locomotive, built by Messrs. R. & W. Hawthorn, Leslie & Co. Ltd., Newcastle-upon-Tyne", with a general view of the enigine; "Types of locomotive used on the Japanese railways" & "Two early locomotives", with data; brisk illustrations and leaves, well preserved copy; 552 pp.

No author.

Engineering: an illustrated weekly journal. Vol. CXXVII- from January to June, 1929.

London; 1929; Office for Publication and Advertisements; halfcloth with marbled boards; 4o; with a wide range of articles and reviews; relating industrial developments and overlooking innovative projects, machinery, engines, tools, etc.; numerous ills., fig., plates, plans, diagrams, wood engravings; articles/ reviews in this volume i.a.: the building research station, Watford, with ills.; Kitson-Meyer locomotive for the Cundinamarca railway, Colombia (constructed by Messrs. Kitson and Company, engineers, Leeds), with double page enclosure with plans and fig.; dry dock no. 3 at the Philadelphia navy yard, with double page enclosure with plans and fig.; works of Messrs. Glenfield and Kennedy, Limited, Kilmarnock, with ills.; the P. and O. turbo-electric liner "Viceroy of India" (constructed by Messrs. Alexander Stephen and Sons, engineers, Linthouse), with ills.; the Carl Zeiss optical works, Jena, with ills.; two-seater all-metal aeroplane (constructed by Messrs. Vickers, engineers, Weybridge), with ills.; reconstruction of the Wearmouth Bridge, Sunderland (Messrs. Mott, Hay and Anderson, consulting engineers, Westminster), with double page enclosure with plans and fig.; factory building for Messrs. Michelin tyre company, Stoke-on-Trent, with ills. and fig.; 4-6-0 passenger locomotive for the Great Western Railway (constructed to the designs of Mr. C.B. Collett, chief mechanical engineer), with fig.; extensive index; complete with one page and two page enclosures; XXIV, 838 pp.

No author.

Engineering: an illustrated weekly journal. Vol. 147. January to June, 1939.

London; 1939; Office for Publication and Advertisements; halfcloth; 4o; with a wide range of articles and reviews; relating industrial developments and overlooking innovative projects, machinery, engines, tools, etc.; numerous ills., fig., plates, plans, diagrams, wood engravings; articles/ reviews in this volume i.a.: Great Lakes self-unloading steamer "George F. Rand", with double page enclosure with plans, fig. and ills.; the Renfrew foundries of Messrs. Babcock and Wilcox, with double page enclosure with ills.; quadruple-screw motor liner "Dominion Monarch" (constructed by Messrs. Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson, Wallsend-on-Tyne), with double page enclosure with plans and fig.; the Wards Island sewage works of the city of New York, with double page enclosure with plans and fig.; the Cunard White Star Liner "Mauretania" (Messrs. Cammell, Laird and Company, Birkenhead), with plans and fig. and double page enclosure; Bristol Beaufort military aeroplane, with ill.; Ebbw Vale Steel Works, Messrs. Richard Thomas and Company, with ills.; Farren-type aerodynamic balance for Messrs. Blackburn aircraft (constructed by Messrs. Cambridge Instrument Company, London), with double page enclosure with plans and ills.; H.M. aircraft-carrier "Ark Royal", with plans and fig.; the works of Messrs. Brush Coachwork, Limited, with ills.; the works of Messrs. David Brown tractors, Huddersfield, with ills.; fine-chemical factory for messrs. Boots pure drug company (Sir E. Owen Williams, consulting engineer, Westminster), with plans and ills.; extensive index; complete with one page and two page enclosures; XXVII, 792 pp.

No author. The Engineer. Weekly issue. Vol. XC- from July to December 1900. London; 1900; Office for Publication and Advertisements; halfcloth with marbled boards; 4o; with a wide range of articles and reviews; relating industrial developments and overlooking innovative projects, machinery, engines, tools, etc.; numerous ills., fig., plates, plans, diagrams, wood engravings; articles, reviews in this volume i.a.: the Paris exhibition- express locomotive, Prussian Railways, with a folding, woodengraved, view of the locomotive; four-cylinder compound locomotive, Chemin de Fer du Nord (Mm. du Bosquet and de Glehn, engineers), with double page supplement with plans and fig.; plan of the Panama Canal, showing the mean-level dividing lock system; the Uganda Railway, with ills.; six-coupled goods locomotive, South-Eastern and Chatham Railway (Mr. Harry S. Wainwright, Ashford, engineer), with plans and ill.; Bradford water supply- new works (Mr. james Watson, Bradford, engineer), with double page supplement with ills.; Great Northern Railway- new line at Nottingham (Mr. A. Ross, King's Cross, engineer), with ills.; the Paris exhibition- compound express engine, Eastern Railway of France, with a folding, woodengraved, view of the engine; Lugansk locomotive works, South Russia, with ills.; index; XVI, 652 pp. Former library copy. [26196]

No author. The Engineer. Weekly issue. Vol. LXXXV- from January to June 1898. London; 1898; Office for Publication and Advertisements; halfcloth with marbled boards; 4o; with a wide range of articles and reviews; relating industrial developments and overlooking innovative projects, machinery, engines, tools, etc.; numerous ills., fig., plates, plans, diagrams, wood engravings; articles, reviews in this volume i.a.: Portuguese cruiser "Adamastor" (Messrs. Orlando Brothers, Leghorn, builders and engineers), with a folding, woodengraved, view of the ship; folding map, showing the railways of Japan up to November, 1897; engines of Her Majesty's first-class battleship "Albion" (Messrs. Maudslay, Sons, and Field, Lambeth, engineers), with, i.a., a folding plate with plans and fig.; the Liverpool motor car trials, with ills. and fig.; four cylinder compound passenger engine, London and North-Western Railway (Mr. F.W. Webb, Crewe, engineer), with a folding, woodengraved, plate with a view of the engine, plans and fig.; types of United States warships, with a double page plate with ills.; the Russian oil industry, with ills.; torpedo boats in the United States navy, with a folding plate with plans and fig.; the manufacture of needles- Messrs. H. Milward and Sons'Works, Washford Mills, Redditch, with ills.; s.s. "Bruce" (Messrs. A. and J. Inglis, Point House, Glasgow, engineers), with plans and fig.; Lagos Railway, with ills.; the Haskin Wood Vulcanising Works, Millwall, with ills.; wire wound ordnance- Messrs. Thomas Firth and Sons' Works, Sheffield, with ills.; index; XVI, 616 pp. Former library copy. [26192]

No author. Engineering: an illustrated weekly journal. Vol. CXXV- from January to June 1928. London; 1929; Office for Publication and Advertisements; halfcloth with marbled boards; 4o; with a wide range of articles and reviews; relating industrial developments and overlooking innovative projects, machinery, engines, tools, etc.; numerous ills., fig., plates, plans, diagrams, wood engravings; articles/ reviews in this volume i.a.: the Danish motor train-ferry "Körsör", with ills.; the port of Boston, Tidewater terminal, with ills.; machinery of the twin-screw motorship "Greystoke Castle" (constructed by the North Eastern Marine Engineering Company, engineers, Wallsend-on-Tyne), with double page enclosure with plans and fig.; extension of the Royal Edward dock at Avonmouth, with ills.; the Sydney Harbour Bridge (J.J.C. Bradfield, chief engineer), with fig.; 4-8-4 type locomotive for the Canadian National Railways (constructed by the Canadian locomotive company, KIngston, Ontario), with double page enclosure with plans and fig.; the post office tube railway, London (Mr. A.M. Sillar, consulting engineer Westminster), with ills.; the Carquinez Strait Cantilever Bridge, California, with ills.; the Napier-Lion series VII B., aero-engine for the Schneider Trophy Race (constructed by Messrs. D. Napier and Son, engineers, London), with double page enclosure with plans and fig.; the failure of the St. Francis dam, Los Angeles, California, with ills. and fig.; extensive index; complete with one page and two page enclosures; XXX, 822 pp. Former library copy. Leaves dampstained at lower parts, some of the double page enclosures stuck together. Cover slightly worn. [26129]

No author. The Engineer. Weekly issue. Vol. LXVII- from January to June, 1889. London; 1889; Office for Publication and Advertisements; halfcloth with marbled boards; 4o; with a wide range of articles and reviews; relating industrial developments and overlooking innovative projects, machinery, engines, tools, etc.; numerous ills., fig., plates, plans, diagrams, wood engravings; articles, reviews in this volume i.a.: passenger locomotive, London and South-Western Railway (Mr. W. Adams, engineer), with double page woodengraved view of the locomotive; twin-screw yacht "Ormea" (the Ardrossan shipbuilding company, builders), with folding plate with plans and fig.; Mogul engine, class S.L., Central Pacific Railway (Mr. Francis F. Brown, engineer), with folding plate with plans and fig.; Her Majesty's first-class battle-ship "Benbow", 10,600 tons (constructed by the Thames ironworks and Shipbuilding Company, Millwall), with folding, woodengraved, plate with a view of the ship; construction of the Eiffel Tower (M. Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, Paris, engineer), with woodengraved illustrations; Mogul engine, class S.L., Central Pacific Railway, with folding plate with fig. and plans; the Chapin iron ore mine, Michigan, with ills.; triple expansion engines, steamship "Benmore" (the North-Eastern Company, Sunderland and Wallsend-on-Tyne), with double page, woodengraved, ills.; the Antofagasta railway, Bolivia- viaduct over the river Loa (Mr. Edward Woods, engineer, the Horseley Company, Tipton, builders), with a folding plate with a view of the viaduct; Her Majesty's first-class battle ship "Edinburgh", with a folding, woodengraved, plate with a view of the ship; Her Majesty's first-class battle ship "Victoria" (constructed by Armstrong, Mitchell and Co., Newcastle-on-Tyne), with a double page, woodengraved, view of the ship; index; VIII, 560 pp. Former library copy. Spine ends slightly damaged, a few leaves loose(ning). [26145]