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The first 63 or so pages of this book are devoted to a general history of commercial vehicles from 1500 right through to recent times,and along the way,it documents such road vehicles as the 1769-1770 Nicolas Cugnot Artillery Steam Tractor,Richard Trevithick's 1801 Steam Road Carriage,Walter Hancock's Steam Coaches of the 1830s-1840s,the 1896 Thornycroft Steam Van,early petrol lorries and buses,steam lorries,diesel lorries,buses and motorcoaches and so on in well-illustrated pages.Both the history and the colour and black & white pictures are international in scope,but with a bias towards British and American commercial vehicles. I said that the history part goes up to recent times,as does the A to Z of lorry and bus marques section of this book:It was originally published in circa 1982-1983,and though this edition was published in 2002,this book has not been updated,except for the newly-designed dustjacket. The encyclopedia proper starts on page 66 and runs to 256 pages with a very good number of black & white photographs.The A to Z format has individual detailed entries on the models and histories of each marque,including the obscure and the not so-obvious ones,such as Annis,a heavy haulage company that built two heavy haulage road locomotives based on Diamond T 980's.There is also a list of minor makes and a glossary at the back of the book. Summing up,this is a good referance book,but an updated edition ought to be published. Foden7SDRLRead full review
Good information great photography of all types of transport
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A very nice book thank you kind regards John
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This illustrated encyclopaedia of trucks and buses by Denis Miller was a very well constructed book which had a wide selection of vehicles and their descriptions, the colour plates were of very good quality and the book was in excellent condition. The book was first published in 2003 and is a very good reference book for anyone interested in this sort of material
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