Art of the Classic Sports Car : Pace and Grace
This book offers enthusiasts a beautifully illustrated review of several decades of high-performance cars, featuring cars from around the globe all shot in the studio to ensure a handsome and desirable book. Each featured car includes a profile discussing the car’s place in sports car history along with technical and performance specs as well as a smattering of historical images and period ads…
Berlinetta ’50s : Rare Italian Coupes of the Fifties
Specially photographed for this book, the author, Xavier de Nombel, pays tribute to the stylists who gave Italian design the leading position it occupied from the 1950s until the turn of the 21st century. Photographer Christian Descombes travelled widely to capture the cars in exciting and unusual settings which only serve to enhance their style…
Formule Junior Historique – View of the paddock
Formula Junior played an important role in the extraordinary development of motor racing during the 1960s. This formula created to train and reveal young drivers also allowed the budding of an incredible number of manufacturers…
Jaguar XJR-9 1985 to 1992 Owners Workshop Manual
An insight into the design, engineering and operation of Jaguar’s multiple World Championship and double Le Mans winning series of sports racing cars…
British Forces Motorcycles 1925-1945
This edition is fully revised and updated and includes three new chapters, covering standard parts, bike markings and paint schemes…
Guy Martin : Portrait of a Bike Legend
“Speed and danger don’t always go together, but it’s proper fun when they do.” (Guy Martin). Truck fitter, ace racer, daredevil, speed junkie, all-round “character”, Guy Martin is just a normal guy, driven to succeed by a passion for speed, whether it is on his daily 20-mile cycle to work – his exploits on the track and for television are extra-curricular and he always makes up for his time away – or on his collection of prized motorcycles…
Isle of Man TT – Golden Years 1963-1982 Volume 3
In a remarkably long history dating back to 1907, the Isle of Man TT never lost its status as the world’s greatest motorcycle road race. But over the decades, the TT has seen many changes and never more than in the period covered by this third volume in the Golden Years series…
Air Combat During Arab-Israeli Wars
This book deals with the course of air combat during the Israeli-Arab wars that had taken place since the Israeli War of Independence in the late 1940s, until fighting against Syrian air force at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries…
B-25J “Mitchell” in Combat over Pacific & CBI
New SMI title. SMI Library titles contain many historical, often rare photos which were an inspiration for colorful schemes from different views you can find inside…
Blackbird : The Story of the Lockheed SR-71 Spy Plane
The American ‘spy’ aircraft, the SR-71 ‘Blackbird’ was deliberately designed to be the world’s fastest and highest-flying aircraft and has never been approached since. It was conceived in the late 1950s by Lockheed Martin’s highly secret ‘Skunk Works’ team under one of the most (possibly the most) brilliant aero designers of all time, Clarence ‘Kelly’ Johnson. Once fully developed in around 1963/4 the Blackbird represented the apogee of jet-powered flight…
Mikoyan MiG-29 ‘Fulcrum’ 1982 to present
An insight into the design, construction and maintenance of Russia’s deadly air superiority multi-role combat jet…
M1 Abrams Main Battle Tank Owners Workshop Manual
The American M1 Abrams Main Battle Tank revolutionary design combines a deadly main armament with a low profile and amazingly quick acceleration, entered service with the US Army in 1980. It was deployed extensively in the stand-offs of the Cold War, then went on to see combat during Gulf War (1991), the invasion of Iraq (2003), and in Afghanistan (2010).
Authors Bruce Oliver Newsome and Gregory Walton lift the hatches on the Abrams to give a unique insight into this deadly aggressor on the 21st century battlefield…
Flying Scotsman : A Pictorial History
Built at Doncaster works in 1923 the Nigel Gresley designed then-A1 class Pacific (4-6-2) first entered service as No 1472. The new locomotive did not receive a name until it was sent for display at a Wembley exhibition in 1924, and then the name Fying Scotsman was chosen. The Legend was born.
This publication includes a selection of QR Codes with links to items of film footage…
Garden Railway Manual
A step-by-step guide to narrow-guage garden railway projects…
Impermanant Ways Special 1
Somerset & Dorset Line Fifty Years on – 1966 was a bad year for the thousands of fans of the erstwhile Somerset & Dorset route when, after more than 100 years of service there would be no more trains over this picturesque line between Bath and Bournemouth…
Southern Region Through the 1950s
This lavishly illustrated volume utilises a wealth of rare and unpublished photographs to offer a nostalgic guide to an important decade in the history of Southern Rail…
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