Great Dorset Steam Fair
Author: Stephen Hubbuck
Publisher:
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9780946184897
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Author: Stephen Hubbuck
Publisher:
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9780946184897
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Benson
Publisher:
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 9780951516102
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Paul Stratford
Publisher:
Published: 2012-07
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780857041623
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThroughout the summer months on most weekends around the country there are numerous traction engine rallies. But there is one event which eclipses them all - The Great Dorset Steam Fair. This album captures the excitement and intensity that makes the fair such a unique and much loved event.
Author: Paul Appleton
Publisher:
Published: 2006-11-01
Total Pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9780711031951
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJust as music fans descend on Glastonbury, and gardening devotees flock to the Chelsea Flower Show, so steam engine buffs congregate at the Great Dorset Steam Fair. This book examines the history of the event, which is now in its 38th year.
Author: Anthony Coulls
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2020-09-15
Total Pages: 123
ISBN-13: 144569851X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTitans of the road, steam lorries were a key part of the road haulage scene before the Second World War. They eventually lost out to diesel, but their romance lives on. This is their story.
Author: Malcolm Batten
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2024-05-15
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 1398121061
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRare and previously unpublished images celebrating preserved steam rollers from different makers that can be seen in Britain.
Author: David Hilliam
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2010-12-26
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 0752462652
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Little Book of Dorset is a funny, fast-paced, fact-packed compendium of the places, people, legends and true stories about the county's past and present.
Author: John Hannavy
Publisher: Pen and Sword Transport
Published: 2022-03-10
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 1399090917
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA history of the creation and evolution of the mechanism that brought precision to the steam power and changed the world. Power without control is unusable power, and long after the invention of the steam engine, finding ways of applying that power to tasks where consistency was of paramount importance was the ‘Holy Grail’ which many steam engineers sought to find. It was the centrifugal governor which brought precision to the application of steam power, and its story can be traced back to seventeenth-century Holland and Christiaan Huygens’ development of both the pendulum clock and system controls for windmills, and governors are still at the heart of sophisticated machinery today—albeit electronic rather than mechanical. Without the centrifugal governor, precise control over the increasingly-complex machinery which has been developed over the past two centuries would not have been possible. It was the first device to give the engineman the control they needed. As machine speed increased, the governor had to evolve to keep pace with the demands for greater precision. Over a hundred British patents were applied for in the nineteenth century alone for ‘improvements’ in governor design, many of which could be fitted, or retro-fitted, to engines from every large manufacturer. Some enginemen, on taking up new appointments—their jobs depending on the precision and consistency of their engine’s operation—would even request that the governor be replaced with their preferred model. This book, the first to deal with the subject, tells the story of the evolution of the original ‘spinning-ball’ governor from its first appearance to the point where it became a small device entirely enclosed in a housing to keep it clean, and thus hidden from view. Praise for The Governor “A beautiful, well-produced book that any engineering-minded person with a passion for steam engines will be proud to own. It traces the story of attempts to get the speed of steam engines and other machinery under control. . . . The book is lavishly illustrated with many beautiful photographs of some of the author's favourite machines. . . . I found this a gloriously well-produced book which I devoured enthusiastically! I commend it to anyone with a serious interest in mechanical engineering.” —Richard Gibbon O.B.E. C.Eng F.I.Mech.E former Head of Engineering, National Railway Museum
Author: Anthony Coulls
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2017-06-15
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13: 1445668874
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTraction engines are a familiar and stirring sight at steam rallies up and down the country, but what were they for, why do they look as they look, and where were they built? These book answers all these questions and more.
Author: Andrew Morland
Publisher: Voyageur Press (MN)
Published: 2014-04-15
Total Pages: 211
ISBN-13: 0760346062
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLegendary Farm Tractors contains more color photographs of more types of farm tractor than any other book. All models are presented with detailed captions to delight any tractor buff.