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A completely updated and expanded edition of the cult bestseller,
featuring subway, light rail, and streetcar maps from New York to
Nizhny Novgorod. Transit Maps of the World is the first and only
comprehensive collection of historical and current maps of every
rapid-transit system on earth. In glorious, colorful graphics, Mark
Ovenden traces the cartographic history of mass transit-including
rare and historic maps, diagrams, and photographs, some available
for the first time since their original publication. Now expanded
with thirty-six more pages, 250 city maps revised from previous
editions, and listings given from almost a thousand systems in
total, this is the graphic designer's new bible, the transport
enthusiast's dream collection, and a coffee-table essential for
everyone who's ever traveled in a city.
An historic and nostalgic look at the role of the Land Rover in the
emergency services over the last 70 years. Land Rover products have
been used by the emergency services almost from the moment the
first model left the factory in 1948. The agility and size of these
vehicles made them an immediate hit with fire services, where they
initially became popular as factory fire tenders. Police forces
were also attracted by the cross-country ability and versatility of
Land Rovers, especially outside Britain, and, when long-wheelbase
models provided extra space, they also became favourites for
ambulance conversions. Some emergency-service conversions required
very little adaptation, and were carried out in the workshops of
the end-users. Others - such as six-wheel Range Rover fire tenders
- required major alterations from the factory-standard vehicle.
Meanwhile, specialist companies developed dedicated ambulance and
fire tender bodywork, creating a fascinating variety of body types.
The vehicles featured in this book illustrate the versatility and
adaptability of Land Rovers and their more modern SUV siblings.
This book will interest Land Rover enthusiasts and
emergency-vehicle enthusiasts alike, with evocative photographs
that illustrate both historic vehicles and more recent vehicles in
action.
This is a past and present photographic exploration of the cities,
towns and countryside covered by the routes of the Oxford Bus
Company. The comparisons of past pictures with present day shots
provides a fascinating view of passing times.
The aim of this series is to appeal to readers of all ages, perhaps
for different reasons... In this volume: We travel all the way back
to the year 1956 * The UK bans heroin * RAF retires last Lancaster
bomber * Suez crisis causes UK petrol rationing * First Eurovision
Song Contest broadcast * Hard disk drive invented * TV broadcasting
begins in Australia For the younger reader there are wonderful
pictures of buses and coaches that they will never have seen. There
will, for example, be half-cab single and double deckers the like
of which are no longerin production. Some will be recognised from
models and books, while others will be seen for the first time. For
the older reader the books are designed to build into a collection
placing road transport in the context of key events, thus providing
an historical perspective of travel in times past. For those old
enough to remember the years depicted, the series will, we hope,
provide reminders for many of school days, time perhaps spent
bus-spotting, depot visiting and generally visiting interesting
locations! The books also make ideal theme gifts for the year of
birth, marriage, retirement, starting work and other such
Southdown Motor Services, renowned for their impressive fleet of
green and cream buses and coaches, also operated an impressive
fleet of ancillary vehicles. In this book, Simon Stanford shares
some of the great variety of vehicles between the 1960s and the
company's acquisition by Stagecoach in 1989. This includes training
buses, tree-loppers, lorries, vans and more.
Already depleted by withdrawals in the London Buses Ltd era, the
Leyland Titan fleet of T class was divided upon privatisation
between three new companies; London Central, Stagecoach East London
and Stagecoach Selkent. Together with a host of smaller companies
operating second-hand acquisitions, the Titans' declining years
between 1998 and 2003 are explored in this pictorial account that
encompasses both standard day-to-day routes, emergency deployments
and rail replacement services. Only small numbers remained to usher
out the type altogether at the end of 2005, when step-entrance
double-deckers as a whole were banished from the capital.
Features over 175 photographs that recall an era when an almost
constant procession of trams clattered over the junction of
Fitzalan Square, High Street, Commercial Street and Haymarket, and
flanges squealed as cars to Walkley and Crookes rounded the curves
on their way to the higher parts of the city, prior to the closure
of the system in 1960.
The English Lake District and North Lancashire is one of the most
beautiful regions of Great Britain. It is also one of less
documented areas of the modern bus scene, being sparsely populated,
relatively remote and lacking in bus services. Here, Peter Tucker
presents a photographic survey of the area since the 1990s. Packed
with a wealth of largely unpublished photographs, the book features
a wide variety of places including Ambleside, Barrow-in-Furness,
Kendal, Keswick, and Windermere – plus Carlisle and the Lancaster
and Wyre districts of modern Lancashire. In addition to the
well-known towns of Lakeland, the book features less photographed
locations including Brough, Buttermere, Dalton-in-Furness,
Greenodd, Kirkstone, Levens Bridge, Portinscale, Troutbeck Bridge,
and Warton, plus many more.
The more than 150 photographs in this eleventh volume in the series
and features Scotland and Ireland, hence the revised titling, were
taken between 1951 and 1978. The majority are in colourand have
never before been published. This volume covers the following
cities: Glasgow Corporation Belfast Corporation/Citybus
UTA/Ulsterbus Lough Swilly CIE Dublin The pictures show the buses
and trams in nostalgic views of street scenes that provide
wonderfully evocative views of shops and contemporary road
vehicles.
The new updated 2012 printing of The Official CB Slanguage Language
Dictionary is now available in paperback from Amazon.com.
This New York Times Best Seller about CB radio lingo has sold over
a million copies since its release and continues to be the standard
reference for CB radio jargon.
C.W. McCall of Convoy called The Official CB Slanguage Language
Dictionary the CBers Bible. And Lanie Dills, the author was called
the Webster of citizens band radio Jargon by People magazine.
From its first publication date, the radio lingo book was
extraordinarily and immediately wildly popular as a way to quickly
pick up the CB lingo used by citizens band radio enthusiasts. It is
easy to talk trucker slang with the best big rigger on the
expressway when you have this handy reference guide beside you.
If you don't know how to rachet jaw (talk CB slang) yet, or if you
just want to be able to use the cross reference to translate
English into CB jargon, this CB talk book will get you up to speed
in just a few minutes.
Did you know there are at least 22 ways to say best wishes and 72
different terms for law enforcement officers? And there are almost
100 different ways to sign off. And almost every city from Shakey
City (Los Angeles) to the Dirty Side (New York City) also has at
least one CB slang name.
Here are a couple examples of a typical CB language conversation:
1. Wipe the bugs of your plates, We eyeball a roller skate funny
bunny at the mixing bowl. Use the jake to double fiver.
Translation: Watch out for police coming from behind. I see a
Volkswagon at the cloverleaf which is a police car in disguise.
Slow down to 55 mph.
2. Brush your teeth and comb your hair
Translation: Police radar ahead, slow down to avoid getting caught
by radar unit.
CB jargon is fun to use, but you need to know how to use it to
join in the fun and avoid the embarrassment of being laughed off
the road by the 18-wheelers.
This is Citizens Band colorful Jargon From A to Z including a
complete cross-reference. It is easy to use and is the perfect
reference for new Cbers and also for skilled rachet jawers that may
have missed a CB term or two.
Also included are the:
10 Code used by law enforcement officers
Official Ten-Code
Q-Code
13-Code
If you are going to mojitate on the boulevards, get the #1
Bestseller, The Official CB Slanguage Language Dictionary including
cross-reference. You'll be able to jawjack with the best of them.
Oh, before I forget, CB handles (CB nicknames) are a good idea.
Pick yourself out a good one before you start to key the mike.
The aim of this series is to appeal to readers of all ages, perhaps
for different reasons...In this volume: We travel back to the year
1973For the younger reader there are wonderful pictures of trains,
real trains. There will, for example, be tank engines, steam
engines, electric trains and multiple units and many more varieties
besides! Some will be recognised from train sets, model railways
and books, while others will be seen for the first time. For the
older reader the books are designed to build into a collection
placing the railway in the context of key events thus providing an
historical perspective of travel in times past. For those old
enough to remember the years depicted, the series will, we hope,
provide reminders for many of school days, time perhaps spent
train-spotting, shed bashing and generally gricing! The books also
make ideal theme gifts for the year of birth, marriage, retirement,
starting work and other such events in life.
Covering all the major bus and trolleybus operators in the South
East and Anglian area, together with a few smaller companies, most
of the pictures show the buses in pre-National Bus Company and
Passenger Transport Executive liveries. The more than 150
photographs were taken between 1951 and 1978 and mostly have never
been published.
The firm ,John Fowler & Co, are synonamous with steam
ploughing,their mighty ploughing engines dominated this form of
mechanised agriculture throughout the latter part of the nineteenth
century,and well into the first couple of decades of the twentieth
century,before as with most steam the ubiquitous internal
combustion engine in the shape of tractors took over. The founder,
John Fowler, was a mechanical engineer specialising in
agriculture,especially at first,land drainage.In 1857 he invented
his first self-moving ploughing engine, built by Clayton &
Shuttleworth.In 1862 however, John Fowler was in his own
engineering premises,the Steam Plough Works in
Leeds,Yorkshire.Tragedy struck two years later when John Fowler
died in an accident,but his family and business partners,especially
a Scottish farmer called David Greig, carried on the work. Almost
immediately portables and agricultural traction engines were being
built at the Works.From the 1880's onwards into the twentieth
century in addition to their ploughing engines and dedicated
ploughs,harrows and drainage equipment,which sold all over the
world;steam road rollers; road locomotives and showmans
engines;wagons(from mid-1920's) and light haulage tractors were
added to the portfolio. The firm also diversified into the building
of stationary engines,railway locomotives,colliery equipment,
electricity generators and machinery for local authorities.The firm
exported and established overseas subsidiaries where their products
were built under licence.Fowlers managed the downturn in steam
products better than most after the First World War,due in part to
a loyal customer base and diversification into other forms of heavy
engineering,and their last steam engine,a road roller was sold in
1937.Just prior to that six Super LionA" showmans road
locomotives,considered by some to be the pinnacle of road steam
engineering were built up to 1934. The firm was taken over in 1947
by the T.W.Ward Group,and Fowlers as an individual brand was no
more.There are approximately 700 examples preserved,a quarter of
which are ploughing engines.
In more than forty years of pinstriping and making signs, there
isn't much that East Coast Artie hasn't done. With Pro Pinstripe
Artie shares everything he's leaned during his long career. Find
out first hand why Artie chose a particular color combination, or a
certain brand of paint for a particular job. To illustrate how
pinstriping works in the real world, the bulk of this new book is
made up of 12 start-to-finish pinstriping sequences performed by
Artie and a small cadre of guest artists. Each of the guest
artists, from Nubs, (Of Orange County Choppers fame), to Mr. Jay,
Mikie Fredricks, Howie Nisgor, and Zeke Lamanski, have their own
style, and their own contribution to this new pinstriping book.
From basic strokes, to choosing the best color combination to
deciding which paint to use for a job that will be clear coated
later, there isn't much about pinstriping that Artie and his guests
don't know - and don't share with readers in this new 144 page book
from ArtKulture, an imprint of Wolfgang Publications.
Making a city that works for children creates a city that better
serves all of its residents, across ages and abilities. Yet we have
created unsafe street conditions for children in cities around the
world. Every day more than 500 children die in road crashes
globally. The physical and mental health benefits of walking and
biking are challenged by speeding traffic and unsafe pedestrian
rights of way. Streets that are designed with the needs of children
and their caregivers in mind have been shown to improve road
safety, health, and quality of life. Building on the success of
their Global Street Design Guide, the National Association of City
Transportation Officials (NACTO)-Global Designing Cities Initiative
(GDCI) Streets for Kids program has developed child-focused design
guidance to inspire leaders, inform practitioners, and empower
communities around the world to consider their city from the eyes
of a child. The guidance in Designing Streets for Kids captures
international best practices, strategies, programs, and policies
that cities around the world have used to design streets and public
spaces that are safe and appealing to children from their earliest
days. The guidance also highlights tactics for engaging children in
the design process, an often-overlooked approach that can
dramatically transform how streets are designed and used. From
addressing the lack of mobility options to noise and air pollution,
this graphics-rich guide will help to design better streets, and
thereby better cities, for kids of all ages and their caregivers.
Designing Streets for Kids provides both inspiration and
application. By focusing speci?cally on children and caregivers,
this book fills a significant void in physical urban design
guidance.
Written by the owner of a preserved Mr Softee vehicle, this book
recaptures the story of a favourite brand.
The post war Morris Minor, designed by Alec Issigonis, was one of
the most popular British Cars. 2008 will mark 60 years since the
first production models rolled off the production lines at Cowley
in Oxfordshire. In this celebratory publication Ray Newell looks in
detail at the development of the wide range of models produced
during a production run which spanned twenty two years in the UK.
Using mainly contemporary materials spanning four decades he
transports the reader back to an era when the pace of life was much
slower and the marketing of the vehicles was considerably different
to the slick advertising of today. Isogonics sketches of the
prototype cars, sales brochures, promotional materials, and rare
and unusual photographs make this a fascinating book.
The Volkswagen Transporter is one of the best-loved and most
recognisable motor vehicles of all time. The preferred transport
for surfers and hippies everywhere, the Volkswagen Type 2 'bus' was
born in 1950, the first of a new breed of vehicle, the ancestor of
today's people carrier. Available in various versions, including
panel van, pick up and minibus, the Transporter was often converted
into campervans for a newly motorised class of holidaymaker. This
book looks at the development, production and use of the class
first, and second, generation Transporter. With archive
illustrations including many colour photographs from old brochures
this book is also a great evocation of the 1950s and 60s.
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