Vickers Sons and Maxim Limited - Their Works and Manufactures
by Alex Richardson
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Farningham, Kent, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Offices of Engineering, 1902 A comprehensive overview of a very complex and comprehensive organisation. The content covers: Ships: Naval and Mercantile - Guns: Naval, Field, and Coast Defence. - Engines: Marine, Electrical and Hydraulic. - Armour Plates, Forgings and Castings. - Railways Materials, Motor cars etc. "Here we see the union of three powerful undertakings, each of which has successively passed through the various economic stages culminating in a point of highest efficiency, which, united, are capable of creating from raw material, without aid from any outside source, such a complicated product as the present day battleship, with all its munitions of war." viii, 200pp printed on hand made paper together with seventy first class gravure plates depicting all the manufacturing plants and products. Corners lightly rubbed otherwise no defects.
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- Bookseller
- Wadard Books PBFA (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21083
- Title
- Vickers Sons and Maxim Limited - Their Works and Manufactures
- Author
- Alex Richardson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Offices of Engineering
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1902
- Size
- 340x165mm
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Wadard Books PBFA
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Farningham, Kent
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The shop of Wadard Books is located in a listed 17th century timber framed building in the historic Kentish village of Farningham. The business is named after Wadard, one of Farningham's Domesday landlords, a henchman of Bishop Odo and featured on the Bayeaux tapestry.
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