| Author: | Mannen Rick |
Beautiful Tractors presents a fabulous variety box of the world's most magnificent agricultural machines, each primed, polished, and gleaming in all its robust glory. Stylishly lit against a studio backdrop, these superb photographs of vintage and modern masterpieces make for an impressive line-up of engineering prowess. Each... read more
| Author: | eds. |
Tractors features the fascinating histories of todays major tractor manufacturers. It also has a fascinating array of colour and black and white pictures to illustrate the machines these pioneer farmers invented and manufactured.
| Author: | Duncan Wherrett |
Over 100 tractors, stretching back over 100 years - from the first steam engines on wheels produced by ingenious engineers in the garden shed, to the mighty multinational John Deere. They are all here, photographed across the globe, from Kent to Canberra. Author Trevor Innes grew up on a farm in South Australia and was a fo... read more
| Author: | Graeme Carter & David Lowe |
A history of Foden trucks, dumpers, crane trucks and buses in New Zealand from 1953 to 2003. A delightful tribute to a great marque, with superb photographs. Bound to become a classic very quickly.
| Author: | Bette S. Garber |
If a custom vehicle is something to see, a custom semi is something else and something much, much more. This brilliantly illustrated book celebrates the time, energy, patience, hard work, and skill that go into these monumental rolling works of art. The author, who has spent a quarter of a century photographing and writing ab... read more
| Author: | Richard H. Robinson |
Crawler Tractor Scrapbook is a collection of notes, magazine clippings and photographs the author has collected over many years and published in a four-volume collection. Manufacturers have been assembled into chapters for convenience and an attempt has been made to give a short history of each company and a list of models ma... read more
| Author: | Graeme Carter & David Lowe |
A pictorial history of this great British truck, the first models arrived in New Zealand in 1950 and the last one was placed on the road in 2003.
| Author: | Scott Garvey |
For the aficionado of farm equipment, or the scion of an old farming family nostalgic for the old days, or the grown-up boy who still loves a classic piece of old-time machinery, the vintage tractor can be a thrilling find like no other. This book tells dozens of stories of such discoveries, of the treasured old tractor parke... read more
| Author: | Bette S. Garber |
From the big picture to the fine detail of some of the most "wow-worthy" of customized semi trucks. From an author who has spent more than a quarter-century photographing and writing about tractor-trailers comes the best book yet about the custom semis that do so much of the nation's heavy hauling in consummate style. Chapter... read more
| Author: | James Beach |
Frustrated with the pace of getting logs to mills by river, steam tractor, or even horse team, lumber baron T. A. Peterman experimented with adapting early automobile technology. In 1939, the remarkable logging trucks he'd refashioned out of surplus army trucks finally went on sale to the public and Peterbilt was launched. Th... read more
| Author: | Malcolm Bobbitt |
British commercial manufacturers played a prime role in boosting Britain's economy during the 1960s, especially as many vehicles were exported worldwide. British lorries were, therefore, considered as being the workhorses of the world, performing a wide range of duties from heavy haulage to general goods delivery. This highly... read more
| Author: | Graeme carter |
84 pages; black and white and coloured photographs; old adverts; card covers; 2010. A history of New Zealand
| Author: | Colin Peck |
| Series: | Those Were the Days Series |
The 1970s witnessed more changes to the trucking industry in Europe than any previous decade. Whilst European truck builders had been developing powerful vehicles capable of operating at between 35 to 38 tonnes gross vehicle weight (GVW), and equipped with comfortable sleeper cabs for long haul international journeys, in the ... read more
| Author: | Publications International |
More than 60 classic tractors chronicle the history of these glorious workhorses.
| Author: | PRIPPS RN |
This volume chronicles the entire history of American farm tractors from 1855 to the present. Organized chronologically by themes that explore such developments as the gas engine, crawlers, the first four- wheel drives, orphan tractors, and modern articulated machines, it shows how machinery forever
| Author: | Louise Pritchard & Christiane Gunzi |
| Series: | Mega Books |
Superb photographs of amazing tractors, combine harvesters, ploughing machinery, lifters, loaders, balers and lots of other impressive farm vehicles, interactive questions, and easy-to-read text encourage even the most reluctant of young readers to start enjoying books and reading.