Transport Technology & Trades

The relatively short period during which BOAC existed, 1940 to 1974, coincided with what is sometimes known as the Golden Age of Flying. Not so muc...

Between 1900 and 1950, Americans built the most powerful steam locomotives of all timeenormous engines that powered a colossal industry. They were ...

John Llewelyn Rhys (1911-1940) was born in Abergavenny. He published The Flying Shadow in 1936 (also reissued by Handheld Press), and in 1939 publi...

In Porsche 75th Anniversary: Expect the Unexpected, the full story of Germanys fabled marque is revealed through a richly illustrated account of it...

Space Race 2.0 is the only authoritative photographic history of the efforts of private companiesoften alongside NASAto accelerate humankinds explo...

The first great British aircraft engine manufacturer, the Sunbeam Motor Car Company turned to the sunrise industry of aviation in 1912, and was amo...

The Story of Harley-Davidson is a compact and dynamic exploration of the legendary motorcycle manufacturer. There are few silhouettes on the world'...

The story of the Royal Aircraft Factory at Farnborough, forerunner of the Worlds premier aeronautical research establishment wherein were designed ...

This book tells you why and how.This book brings together a collection of popular articles previously published by the author in assorted car magaz...

Can air power alone win a war? That has been the question since the Second World War. Air attacks failed miserably in Vietnam; Operation Linebacker...

Most historians recognise the work of three engineers as being the men who developed the railways from slow, lumbering colliery lines into fast, in...

In a similar style to Comet!: The World's First Jet Airliner and Boeing Group: A History, Graham Simons presents us with a colourful, thoroughly en...

This book tells the often dramatic and always fascinating story of flight in lighter than air machines. For centuries man had dreamed of flying, bu...

From as early as the beginning of the nineteenth century, Britain was at the forefront of powered flight. Across the country many places became cen...

After the end of hostilities in 1945, the fishing industry was quick to establish some semblance of recovery and a surge of new builds and restorat...

The pilot cutters that operated around the coasts of northern Europe until the First World War were amongst the most seaworthy and beautiful craft ...

Automation in aviation can be a lifesaver, expertly guiding a plane and its passengers through stormy weather to a safe landing. Or it can be a mur...

The Boeing 737 is an American short- to medium-range twinjet narrow-body airliner developed and manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes, a divi...

The story of the legendary supersonic passenger jet, told through a series of contemporary documents and records. First flown in 1969, Concorde wa...