A West Coast Engineman by Ian Tibbles
$75.00 NZD
Category: NZ Railways
Signing on at Greymouth's Elmer Lane depot in 1962, a young Ian Tibbles very quickly learnt the mysteries of "the dark shed". Graduating from labourer to cleaner and then fireman, his apprenticeship takes us on a journey about the West Coast in the 1960's, the golden age of steam. Starting on the wharf ...Show more
Addington Railway Workshops: Working with Wood by Keith G. Brown
$47.50 NZD
Category: Railways
Keith G. Brown documents Addington Workshops rich history from formation to closure and details his own experiences working as a tradesman carpenter at Addington from 1949 to 1987. The first book to document Addington's leading role in the manufacture and repair of rolling stock for New Zealand Railways ...Show more
History Motoring Through 100 Legendary Cars by CORTANZE
$100.00 NZD
Category: Motoring | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
From the mythical De Dion Bouton Type K1 to the Delahaye, from the Jeep Willys to the combi Volkswagen, from the Mercedes Benz to the Ford Mustang Shelby GT 500, from the Aston Martin DB7 to the Bugatti Veyron 16.4, and from the Austin Mini to the Range Rover. A hundred years of innovation, inventivenes ...Show more
Trucks: A Vintage Collection by Clive Lind
$55.00 NZD
Category: NZ Motoring
Trucks : A Vintage Collection is a quality pictorial publication in full colour featuring trucks from the Bill Richardson Truck Museum in Invercargill, New Zealand, arguably the largest private collection of its type in the world. Ranging from 1911 to 2003, with over 170 trucks representing some 50 manu ...Show more
Steam Traction on the Road - From Trevithick to Sentinel: 150 Years of Design and Development by Anthony Burton
$69.99 NZD
Category: Motoring
This is the story of how for more than a hundred years steam power played a vital role in the development of road transport. It all began with tentative attempts to build steam carriages by pioneers such as Cugnot in France and Trevithick in Britain, and in the early part of the nineteenth century there ...Show more
Wayfarer & Warrior: The Monowai Story by Jack S. Harker
$15.00 NZD
Category: NZ Maritime | Reading Level: very good
'The Monowai' holds a special place in the hearts of many New Zealanders, Americans and assorted members of the British Commonwealth armed forces. Both Monowais were the latest liners of their times and both served as troopships - from the Boer War to World War I, and the Pacific and D-Day theatres of W ...Show more
Flight Over Waitohi by RODLIFFE, C G
$15.00 NZD
Category: NZ Aviation
A true story of the first man to fly a power driven areoplane
Harley-Davidson Knucklehead: Eighty Years by Greg Field
$45.00 NZD
Category: Motoring
Celebrate the engine that changed the motorcycle world. Harley-Davidson Knucklehead tells the entire Knucklehead story-accompanied by modern and period photography-from the very first overhead-valve V-twin Harley produced for the public through the post-war models, continuing right up until today, when ...Show more