Lamborghini by Antonio Ghini
$200.00 NZD
Category: Motoring
A new updated edition of the volume released in 2020 with the history of Lamborghini. This official book is dedicated to the history of the Italian car brand founded in Sant'Agata Bolognese in 1963 by Ferruccio Lamborghini. Ferruccio's dream was to create the perfect car and still today, more than half ...Show more
Stories from Our Back Roads The North Island by Ray Stone
$50.00 NZD
Category: Motoring | Reading Level: near fine
This book is for people who enjoy driving and exploring the stories of our back roads, but most of all it is for people who love New Zealand, whether they choose to do it from behind the wheel of their SUV or the comfort of their sofa. Stories from our Backroads: North Island will introduce you to some ...Show more
The Midland Line: New Zealand's Trans-alpine Railway by Geoffrey B. Churchman
$42.50 NZD
Category: NZ Railways | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. First published in 1988. This is the fourth edition. Acclaimed for years as one of the great railway journeys of the world, the Midland Line, linking Canterbury and Westland through the Southern Alps, is a story of perseverance and adventure. In New Zealand’s sparsely populated colonial day ...Show more
White Wings: Fifty Years of Sail in the New Zealand Trade 1850-1900 (Vol. One) by Henry Brett
$250.00 NZD
Category: NZ Maritime | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. White Wings contains volumes 1 and 2. The first volume was published in 1924 and has a history of fifty years of sailing in the New Zealand trade, from 1850 to 1900. It also contains information about the voyages of many ships that brought immigrants to New Zealand. The books themselves ar ...Show more
Sleepers Beneath my Wheels by M.D Hazeldine
$18.50 NZD
Category: NZ Railways
A South Island Enginedriver's life on the rails 1944-1984
More Than Just a Place of Work - A History of Dunedin's Hillside Railway Workshops by Ian Dougherty
$75.00 NZD
Category: NZ Railways | Reading Level: near fine
A history of Dunedin's Hillside Railway Workshops. This well-researched book covers both the engineering history to interest railway enthusiasts, and a political, economic and social history that will appeal to a wider readership. Beginning in the 1860s until its closure in 2012, the Dunedin Hillside Ra ...Show more
A West Coast Engineman by Ian Tibbles
$75.00 NZD
Category: NZ Railways
Signing on at Greymouth's Elmer Lane depot in 1962, a young Ian Tibbles very quickly learnt the mysteries of "the dark shed". Graduating from labourer to cleaner and then fireman, his apprenticeship takes us on a journey about the West Coast in the 1960's, the golden age of steam. Starting on the wharf ...Show more
Addington Railway Workshops: Working with Wood by Keith G. Brown
$47.50 NZD
Category: Railways
Keith G. Brown documents Addington Workshops rich history from formation to closure and details his own experiences working as a tradesman carpenter at Addington from 1949 to 1987. The first book to document Addington's leading role in the manufacture and repair of rolling stock for New Zealand Railways ...Show more
History Motoring Through 100 Legendary Cars by CORTANZE
$100.00 NZD
Category: Motoring | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
From the mythical De Dion Bouton Type K1 to the Delahaye, from the Jeep Willys to the combi Volkswagen, from the Mercedes Benz to the Ford Mustang Shelby GT 500, from the Aston Martin DB7 to the Bugatti Veyron 16.4, and from the Austin Mini to the Range Rover. A hundred years of innovation, inventivenes ...Show more