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INSTRUCTIONS TO MOTORMEN, GUARDS, SHUNTERS AND OTHER EMPLOYE[E]S ENGAGED IN THE OPERATION OF ELECTRIC TRAINS. December, 1924
by [Victorian Railways] Staff Writers
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good +
- Seller
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Korumburra, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia: H.J.Green, Government Printer, 1924. Original brown cloth. 147pp., intext, b/white schematic line-drawings throughout, plus an intricate series of fold-out diagrams affixed in rear [all extant]. Book clean and 'square' [distortion from fold-outs excepted]. Spine firm. Tanned endpapers, minor biopredation on rear fep, and margin of Index, an important errata label affixed to plain verso of Contents page, otherwise leaves clean. Printed cloth boards nominally bumped only. Issued in 1924, for motormen and guards working with electric trains in the Victorian Railway System, numerous contents include: Definitions, Descriptions [Systems, Equipment], Circuits: Main, Compressor, Protective Relay, Dynamotor, Master Controller, Panograph, Traction Motor, Testing, Stabling, General instructions, more. This volume was published just five years after the first electric trains ran in Melbourne in 1919 . . . Book weight approx. 250g. Postage charge will be reduced as this item will post under 500g. packed weight. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover, 12mo. Very Good +.
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- Bookseller
- Diversity Books, IOBA
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010277
- Title
- INSTRUCTIONS TO MOTORMEN, GUARDS, SHUNTERS AND OTHER EMPLOYE[E]S ENGAGED IN THE OPERATION OF ELECTRIC TRAINS. December, 1924
- Author
- [Victorian Railways] Staff Writers
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Publisher
- H.J.Green, Government Printer
- Place of Publication
- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Date Published
- 1924
- Keywords
- AUSTRALIA, TRANSPORT, RAILWAYS, AUSTRALIAN RAILWAYS INSTRUCTION, MANUALS, REFERENCE BOOK
- Bookseller catalogs
- Transportation;
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About the Seller
Diversity Books, IOBA
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Korumburra, Victoria
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Errata
- Errata: aka Errata Slip A piece of paper either laid in to the book correcting errors found in the printed text after being...
- Leaves
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
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