Название: Narrow Guage Steam 7 (Railways of Britain Vol.35)
Издательство: Kelsey Media
Год: 2022
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 100
Размер: 115 Mb
Язык: English

Narrow Guage Steam 7

Название: Motorcycle Porn - Portraits and Stories
Автор: Frank J. Bott
Издательство: Amherst Media
Год: 2017
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 197
Размер: 11,7 Mb
Язык: English

Motorcycle Porn: Portraits and Stories is a book of prime motorcycle images taken by Frank J. Bott who works in Tooele, Utah. Frank is an aficionado of both photography and motorcycles. His photographs of the machines are extraordinary. The images were taken using a large cyclarama with lighting from a gigantic softbox allowing the light to wrap around these spectacular machines. This amazing collection of images––an extensive project of Franks J. Bott to document these unique bikes––contains a considerable assortment of motorcycles from the skillfully customized and hand built to the painstakingly restored to the historically significant vintage to the best-of-the-best. Each has a set of photographic portraits, including fine details, that tells its unique story.

Название: Гоночные автомобили
Автор: Бекман В.В.
Издательство: Машиностроение
Год: 1980
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 328
Размер: 173.82MB
Язык: Русский

В книге рассмотрены вопросы улучшения эксплуатационных качеств гоночных автомобилей; дана классификация и описаны условия их эксплуатации; приведен анализ конструкций гоночных автомобильных двигателей, их деталей и механизмов: рассмотрены принципы компоновки гоночных автомобилей, устройство механизмов трансмиссии, ходовых частей, вспомогательного оборудования, кузовов.

Название: Chiltern Railways: The Inside Story
Автор: Shooter Adrian
Издательство: Pen & Sword
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 192
Размер: 35,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

This book, uniquely, gives an insight to the business strategy and its delivery that underpinned the performance of one of Rail Privatization’s greatest successes. It also shows the reader some of the many ‘behind the scenes’ jobs which are essential to the functioning of a railway but which are rarely seen by outsiders.

Название: The London Volvo B7TL
Автор: Matthew Wharmby
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1526786958
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 273
Размер: 59,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

At the turn of the century Volvo found itself in a three-way tussle with Dennis and DAF to design and produce Britain’s first low-floor double-deck buses. The resulting B7TL was later into service in London than its competitors, but quickly caught up to achieve parity with the Dennis Trident. Two lengths were available and three bodies, by Alexander, Plaxton and East Lancs.

Название: Porsche Passion: 911 Heaven and Beyond
Автор: Lance Cole
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1526785692
Год: 2022
Формат: True PDF
Страниц: 162
Размер: 104,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

In a book of Porsche photography and engaging conversation, Lance Cole journeys through a personal passion for Porsche –one that many supercar enthusiasts share. Herein light falls on sculpted metal and paint – shiny and less shiny.

Название: Bugatti Blue: Prescott and the Spirit of Bugatti
Автор: Lance Cole
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1526734753
Год: 2019
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 192
Размер: 53,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

The British have had an affair with Bugatti for decades and perhaps Prescott Hill-Climb in Gloucestershire is the place where that relationship has reached its highlights across the decades. This collection of photographic images captures the brilliance of Bugatti design amid Bugatti blue at Prescott's wonderful natural amphitheatre in the Cotswolds – to which visitors, Bugatti owners, enthusiasts and addicts have travelled from all over the world to gather and to race up the hill.

Название: Great Western, King Class 4-6-0s: From Construction to Withdrawal
Автор: David Maidment
Издательство: Pen & Sword
ISBN: 1526739852
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 272
Размер: 63,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

Built by Collett in 1927 after pressure to restore the GWR’s pre-eminence in motive power and cope with increasing traffic post-war to the Devon and Cornwall holiday resorts, the thirty Kings were the final development of the Churchward Stars and the 1923 Castles and remained on top-link main line duty until their final replacement by the ‘Western’ class 52 diesel hydraulics in 1962.

Название: Car: The Definitive Visual History of the Automobile, New Edition
Автор: Chapman G.
Издательство: DK
Год: 2022
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 368
Размер: 81,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

Whether you're a vintage car spotter or an armchair petrolhead, strap yourself in for an unforgettable ride through motoring history. This sumptuously designed visual e-guide includes everything you could ever want to know about cars through the ages, from the earliest "horseless carriage" to the modern supercar and Formula 1. Inside the pages of this visually stunning car encyclopedia, you'll discover an iconic celebration of automotive design and motoring history.

Название: "Ленин" - первый атомный ледокол
Автор: Кузнецов Н.А.
Издательство: Паулсен
Год: 2019
Формат: pdf, djvu
Страниц: 36
Размер: 14 mb
Язык: Русский

Постройка советскими судостроителями в 1956-1959 гг. первого в мире атомного ледокола "Ленин" стала эпохальным событием в области мирного использования атомной энергии и развития ледокольного флота. За 30 лет работы в Арктике атомоход провёл во льдах 3740 судов и прошёл расстояние, в три с половиной раза превышающее путь от Земли до Луны и более чем в 30 раз превосходящее длину окружности Земли по экватору. Многие операции, осуществлённые "Лениным", навсегда вошли в историю освоения Арктики.