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Auction No 422, Category: Transport

13 Lots (displaying 1 - 13)

"W.& T. Avery Ltd: Weighbridges, Weighing Apparatus, Testing Machinery for Engineers, Railways, etc"., Birmingham, 1906,

Lot: 89

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Dec 2023 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £20
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W.& T. Avery Ltd: Weighbridges, Weighing Apparatus, Testing Machinery for Engineers, Railways, etc., Birmingham, 1906, octavo, publisher's printed cloth, small repair to spine, illustrated throughout, 128pp. VG; together with Leigh-Bennett Weighing the World, W. & T. Avery, 1930, a company history, in fine condition. (2)

Bus & Coach history & nostalgia, 1960s to modern, h/bk (16) and s/bk, including Maund "Pioneer Bus Services in South West Lancashire";

Lot: 101

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Dec 2023 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £72
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Bus & Coach history & nostalgia, 1960s to modern, h/bk (16) and s/bk, including Maund Pioneer Bus Services in South West Lancashire; Wise Lincolnshire Roadcar 75; Aves Green No More: London Country Bus Services, in d/jkt; Kirkham Livin' in the outside lane; Webber Garaging London's Red Buses. All VG/VF, no ownership inscriptions. (25)

UK Bus & Coach Company history & nostalgia, with many modern publications; including Dine "Cooks Coaches", signed by the author;

Lot: 102

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Dec 2023 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £72
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UK Bus & Coach Company history & nostalgia, with many modern publications; including Dine Cooks Coaches, signed by the author; Gamble Ratby Service: The Story of Astill & Jordan; Cardno & Harling Hansons of Huddersfield; Nightingale O'er Highland Highways: The Story of Macbraynes Motor Services; Mills Simonds Coach & Travel; and Grace Remembering Silver Star. H/bk and s/bk. VG/VF, no ownership inscriptions. (21)  

J. Soper "Leeds Transport", Leeds Transport Society, 1985-2007, four volumes, large format h/bks in d/jkts; vol.1 with ownership label to endpaper,

Lot: 103

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Dec 2023 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
UNSOLD
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J. Soper Leeds Transport, Leeds Transport Society, 1985-2007, four volumes, large format h/bks in d/jkts; vol.1 with ownership label to endpaper, vol.2 with split to d/jkt along front hinge, o/w fine. (4)

Bus & Coach history & nostalgia, all of Local History interest, h/bk and s/bk; including Charles Hall "Rotherham & District Transport" 1996-1999,

Lot: 104

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Dec 2023 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £66
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Bus & Coach history & nostalgia, all of Local History interest, h/bk and s/bk; including Charles Hall Rotherham & District Transport 1996-1999, 3 vols, large format s/bks, creasing to back covers of vols. 1 & 3; Hemsell Nottingham City Transport's Buses, 2012; and Smith Austin's – Happy Days, of Woodseaves, Stafford, 2016. Mostly VG/VF, no ownership inscriptions. (23).

Bus and Tram history & nostalgia, 1960s to modern, h/bk & s/bk, including Waller "The Blackpool Streamlined Trams", in d/jkt;

Lot: 105

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Dec 2023 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £46
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Bus and Tram history & nostalgia, 1960s to modern, h/bk & s/bk, including Waller The Blackpool Streamlined Trams, in d/jkt; Lockwood Trams Across the Wear; and Halewood & McGillivray G.V.V.T. The Restored Collection. Of the remainder three have ownership inscriptions. Mainly VG/VF (31)

UK Bus history & nostalgia, with many modern publications, h/bk (12) and s/bk; including Osborn "Surrey’s Spring Line", 2021,

Lot: 106

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Dec 2023 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £62
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UK Bus history & nostalgia, with many modern publications, h/bk (12) and s/bk; including Osborn Surrey's Spring Line, 2021, and Phillips A History of the Leyland Bus, 2015, in d/jkt. VG/VF, no ownership inscriptions. (17)  

"Summer Tours in Scotland by David Macbrayne’s Royal Mail Steamers Columba, Iona, &c"., Official Guide, Glasgow, 1901;

Lot: 107

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Dec 2023 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
SOLD £32
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Summer Tours in Scotland by David Macbrayne's Royal Mail Steamers Columba, Iona, &c., Official Guide, Glasgow, 1901; gilt cloth, b/w plates, 112pp + 40pp timetable. Few pages of the timetable with rust marks. Also a related PPC PU 1904 (no ship's postmark).

"Bradshaw's Railway Time Tables" for November 1842. Large single sheet (poster size, 36 x24”), the Birmingham & Derby Jctn.Rly highlighted

Lot: 108

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Dec 2023 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
UNSOLD
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Bradshaw's Railway Time Tables for November 1842. Large single sheet (poster size, 36 x24”), the Birmingham & Derby Jctn.Rly highlighted with a pink w/colour frame. Folds, peripheral faults (no loss of text). VG. Scarce  

Railway softbacks & juvenilia including Rev.W.Awdry "Gordon the Big Engine & His Tender pre-cut Model Engine Book";

Lot: 109

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Dec 2023 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £30
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Railway softbacks & juvenilia including Rev.W.Awdry Gordon the Big Engine & His Tender pre-cut Model Engine Book; T.A.C. Jarrett Big Bill & Little Bill and The Silly Stoker; a Tuck's Train Travel transfer book; cut-out model cards of The Flying Scotsman and Princess Royal; and other items including some modern prints. (Qty).

Transport history softbacks from 1927, mostly 1970s/80s, chiefly Railway and Canals. Good to VF (34)

Lot: 110

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Dec 2023 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
SOLD £36
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Transport history softbacks from 1927, mostly 1970s/80s, chiefly Railway and Canals. Good to VF (34) 

H. Gilbert Whyatt (Ed.) "The Highway Engineer’s Yearbook for 1924", Isaac Pitman,1923, publisher’s printed cloth, light wear to extremities o/w fine;

Lot: 111

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Dec 2023 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £36
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H. Gilbert Whyatt (Ed.) The Highway Engineer's Yearbook for 1924, Isaac Pitman, 1923, publisher's printed cloth, light wear to extremities o/w fine; 111 half-tone illustrations of road-rollers and related machinery. 238pp + index and 34pp of advertisements. Ownership details top of half-title.    

"London & North Western Railway Co’s Official Tourists’ Picturesque Guide", 1876, re-cased, 10 maps (3 with tape repairs) and litho plates;

Lot: 113

  • Auction Date: Wed 6th Dec 2023 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £36
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London & North Western Railway Co's Official Tourists' Picturesque Guide, 1876, re-cased, 10 maps (3 with tape repairs) and litho plates; Larkman Brown's Marine Electrician for Sea-Going Engineers, 1914; The Railway Magazine, Vol.1, July-December 1897, gilt cloth, VG; and five others including Automobile Repair, Newnes, 1953, four vols. Railway Magazine lacks the original pictorial wraps but contains the b/w plates. Fair to Fine.  (8)