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The Carlisle Accident and the Vacuum Brake. Opinions of the Press
[No Place, No Publisher], 1890. 'A considerable number of articles having appeared in the daily and technical press with regard to the disastrous collision which took place at the Citadel Station, Carlisle, on the 4th of March this year [1890], it has been thought desirable, in the interests of public..... More
Murray Bridge Railway Station [caption in pencil on the verso]
[Littlehampton?], Thomas Sladdin, [circa 1892?]. Davies and Stanbury record 'Thomas Sladden (Sladdin)' working as a photographer at three locations in SA: Littlehampton (1890-91); Sedan, 1892-94; and Lyndoch, 1895-1900 (with his brother John). Littlehampton is the closest of the three to Murray Bridge. More
Boston & Albany R.R. Dining Car Service between Boston and Utica on the Boston and Chicago Special ...
[Boston], Boston and Albany Railroad, 1894 ('6-5-'94'). Dinner was one dollar, and one could dine handsomely on Mackerel, Ribs of Beef or Spring Lamb, Fried Soft Shell Crabs, and all the trimmings. However, this pales beside the choices available on the wine list, commencing with seven varieties of Champagne ....... More
A vintage large-format photograph of members of the 'South Australian Bicycle Club. Premiers. Season 1893-4'
[Adelaide, Unknown Photographer], 1894. The members of the club are posed in a studio setting behind two bicycles (lying down with front wheels crossed, the club flag draped over them). All 31 of those featured in the photograph are identified: not least are J. Michie MB (Honorary Surgeon), and Rev..... More
The Raleigh Cycle Co., Ltd. Special Australasian Edition [cover title]
[Nottingham, The Raleigh Cycle Co., Ltd., 1898]. The recto of each leaf is ink-stamped 'J. Mullins. Manufacturer & Importer of Bicycles, 84 Pirie St, Adelaide. Branch at Commercial Road Port Adelaide'. Retail prices for all but the tandem models are added in ink: they range from just over ÂŁ20 to..... More
The Locomotives of the Great Northern Railway, 1847-1902
London, The Locomotive Publishing Co., 1903. More
The North Wales Coast [cover title]
Llangollen, Darlington & Co., [1903-04]. More
Rules to be observed by All Persons in the Service of the South Australian Railways
Adelaide, C.E. Bristow, Government Printer, 1907. Together with 'Supplement to Rule Book. All Electric Signalling. Rules to be observed by All Persons in the Service of the South Australian Railways'. Adelaide, R.E.E. Rogers, Government Printer, 1915. Duodecimo, [20] pages (including the flyleaves, with some pages blank) with 9 pages of..... More
London and South Western Railway Time Tables. 1st October 1907 to 31st May 1908 or until further notice. [Bound with] ... 1st June to 30th September 1908 ... [and] 1st October 1908 to 31st May 1909 ...
London, London and South Western Railway, 1907 and 1908. The foot of the retained backstrip is stamped in gilt 'Supt. [Superintendent] of Line'; this might explain why these three handsome Edwardian time tables from the heyday of the London and South Western Railway are in such wonderful shape. More
'Territoria. The Great Lone Land. Land of the Dawning' [cover title]
Adelaide, Published by 'The Australian Garden & Field Proprietary' for the Australian Railways and Territory League, 1909. The sub-title beneath the drop-title 'Territoria' at the beginning of the text proper on page 5 is instructive: 'A Sketch of its Immense Resources. Reasons for Past Failures. Suggestions for Future Successes. The..... More
Lonely Lands. Through the Heart of Australia
Sydney, N.S.W. Bookstall Co., 1909. 'Why the idea should ever have occurred to me to risk a ride on a bicycle over eight thousand miles of territory, much of which was practically pathless, it would be difficult to explain' (page 3). Fortunately, over the following 220-odd pages, he does a...... More
South Australian Railways. Southern Province Distance Table showing Distances between all Stations on connected Lines as on July 1st, 1910
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1910. More
Souvenir de Paris. Monuments. Vues en Couleurs
Paris, Editions A. Papeghin, [circa 1910s]. Not least, the semi-deserted avenues with occasional pedestrians, mounted travellers, horse-drawn carriages and carts, early jalopies and motor omnibuses. More
The Barossa District. Souvenir. Gawler-Angaston Railway Opening [cover title]
Angaston, 'Barossa News' Limited (printed by Hussey and Gillingham, Adelaide), 1911. A very rare item of local history: we have handled only two other copies since 1976, and both were in worse condition than this one. The content is far more substantial than its title suggests; there are thirteen pages..... More
Trial of Franz Muller
London, William Hodge & Company, 1911. Murder on a British train in 1864. More
Northern Territory Railways and Ports - Reports of the Royal Commission
Melbourne, Government Printer, 1914. Commonwealth Parliamentary Paper Number 31 of 1914; only 950 copies printed. The Commissioners reported on 'the Routes (and classes) of necessary Railways ... The desirableness and practicability of creating new Ports [and] The desirableness of setting apart an area for the eventual creation of a New..... More
An Unparalleled Achievement. Cleveland Six [cover title]
Sydney, New Century Press Ltd, [early 1920s]. An attractive sales brochure for this American automobile, printed in Australia for the 'Agents Throughout the Commonwealth'. 'The success of the Chandler Motor Car Co. encouraged Frederick C. Chandler (1874-1945) to organize the Cleveland Automobile Co. to produce a lower-priced automobile. Founded in..... More
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland
London, The Railway Gazette, 1920. More
Storage Batteries. A General Treatise on the Physics and Chemistry of Secondary Batteries and their Engineering Applications
New York, John Wiley and Sons, 1924. With the ownership signature of M.E. (Max) Lawton. More
An Economic History of Modern Britain. The Early Railway Age, 1820-1850
London, Cambridge University Press, 1926 [first edition]. With the ownership signature of Professor W[ilfred] D. Borrie, 'the father of Australian demography'. Not least, the impact of the Railway Revolution on England in the early nineteenth century. Includes 2 folding maps; rare with the dustwrapper. More
The Book of the Railway
London, Collins' Clear-Type Press, 1927. More
History of the Great Western Railway. Vol. I. 1833-1863 [and] Vol. II. 1863-1921
London, Great Western Railway Company, 1927 and 1931. [3 items]. More
Wigs and Wags. A Volume of Fun, Facts & Faces about Our Railways. 60 Cartoons
Adelaide, Printed by Pritchard Brothers, c.1928]. Loosely inserted is an original pencil caricature by Maegraith (dated 1950); on the verso are twelve autographs of WA cricketers (plus the manager, Bryant) dated November 1949. A fund-raiser for charity. More
Power Makes Money. The Locomotive Booster provides More Power for Every Locomotive. [Cover title]
[Chicago], Franklin Railway Supply Co., Inc., 1928. 'The Locomotive Booster makes it possible to use more of the weight of the locomotive on the rails to produce power'. More
Casque's Sketch Book. Motor Racing in Lighter Vein ... [Together with] More Sketches by 'Casque' ... Racing, Rallies and Trials - as they often are
London, Iliffe and Sons, [early 1930s]. More
The 'Safety' Cycling Map of England ... A Key Map to the Cycling Roads
London, Gall & Inglis, [circa 1930]. 'Describing accurately the quality of twenty-eight thousand miles of road, and showing one thousand seven hundred dangerous hills' (cover sub-title). Scale: 15 miles to an inch. More
Standard 1933. Overseas Edition [cover title]
Canley, Standard Motor Co., Ltd., 1933. 'The 1933 Standards! Could any cars be built better than those that Standard made for 1932? Could any cars be more successful, more welcome in a world of thrift?' (from the first page). More
Steel of Empire. The Romantic History of the Canadian Pacific, the Northwest Passage of Today
Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1935. More
'The Coronation' and Other Famous L.N.E.R. Trains
London, Ivor Nicholson & Watson, 1937. More
Motor Spares Ltd. The Original Spare Parts House. Catalog. Spare Parts & Accessories [cover title]
Melbourne, Motor Spares Limited, June 1939 (second edition). The first edition, with half the number of pages, was published in December 1931. More
The Practical Testing of Dynamos and Motors
Manchester, The Scientific Publishing Company, [1945; nineteenth edition]. More
Life As I See It
Adelaide, Hunkin, Ellis and King Ltd., 1946. A broad-ranging memoir, with chapters on railway work in central Australia, prospecting for gold and silver, fruit growing, station life and shearing in South Australia and Western Australia, as well as meditations on politics, bookmaking, the atomic bomb, soil erosion etc. The dustwrapper..... More
'Standard' Wheel Truing Machine for Diesel Locomotives, Passenger Cars [and] Freight Cars. [Amazing New Wheel Conditioner (cover sub-title)]
Chicago, Standard Railway Equipment Manufacturing Company, 1946. 'From a research-development program over a period of several years Standard Railway Equipment Manufacturing Company has developed a machine to maintain wheels without removal from the car or diesel locomotive' (sub-title). More
'Standard' Wheel Truing Machine for Diesel Locomotives, Passenger Cars [and] Freight Cars. [Amazing New Wheel Conditioner (cover sub-title)]
Chicago, Standard Railway Equipment Manufacturing Company, 1946. 'From a research-development program over a period of several years Standard Railway Equipment Manufacturing Company has developed a machine to maintain wheels without removal from the car or diesel locomotive' (sub-title). More
The Robinson Locomotives of the Great Central Railway, 1900-1923. A Brief Descriptive Illustrated Souvenir of Types
London, E.V. Aldrich, 1946. Item 3 of the 'Langloco' series. More
Narrow Gauge Railways of Ireland
London, Greenlake Publications Limited, 1946. More
Bits and Pieces. Being Motor Racing Recollections of "B. Bira"
London, G.T Foulis & Co. Ltd, 1947 [sixth impression, but 'fifth edition' printed on spine of dustwrapper]/ 1942. More
Bits and Pieces. Being Motor Racing Recollections of "B. Bira"
London, G.T Foulis & Co. Ltd, 1947 [sixth impression, but 'fifth edition' printed on spine of dustwrapper]/ 1942. More
History of Southern Railway Locomotives to 1938
London, The Institution of Locomotive Engineers, 1948. The subtitle is 'Paper to be read before the Institution by C.S. Cocks, Member, on Wednesday 17th November, 1948, in London'. It was issued in advance of the reading, and 'Subject to Revision' is printed at the head of the first page. More
Waterloo. One Hundred Years in the Life of a Great Railway Station
London, British Railways, Southern Region, [1948]. '1848-1948, Waterloo Station Centenary' [cover title]. More
The Vintage Car. Volume 1, Number 1, July 1948 to Volume 1, Number 4, October 1949
[Melbourne], The Vintage Sports Car Club of Australia, 1948 and 1949. The first number states it is 'the first issue ... in its new form'. Bound with 'NZ Sports Car Club Bulletin', Volume 3, Number 2, December 1945 to Volume 3, Number 8, December 1947. Octavo, seven issues, each 16..... More
Locomotives of the British Railways. Southern Group. A Pictorial Record. [Together with] ... London, Midlands & Scottish Group. A Pictorial Record
London, Andrew Dakers Limited, [1950s] and 1955. More
The Lighted Flame. A History of the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen
London, Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd., 1950. More
The Beauty of Old Trains
London, George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1952. More
British Railway History. An Outline from the Accession of William IV to the Nationalisation of Railways, 1830-1876
London, George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1954. More
Southern Electric. The History of the World's Largest Suburban Electrified System
London, Ian Allan Ltd., 1958 (second impression)/ 1957. More
Main Lines across the Border
London, Thomas Nelson and Son Ltd., 1960. More
Mr. Pullman's Elegant Palace Car
New York, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1961. More