Dune Buggies (or Beach Buggies), are kit cars based on the chassis and running gear of fatally corroded VW Beetles.This is the complete step by step guide to the equipment and building techniques needed to build a Buggy, helping you to create a superb, roadworthy multi-purpose vehicle. Read More
Dune Buggies (or Beach Buggies), are kit cars based on the chassis and running gear of fatally corroded VW Beetles.This is the complete step by step guide to the equipment and building techniques needed to build a Buggy, helping you to create a superb, roadworthy multi-purpose vehicle. Read More
There has been a huge resurgence of interest in Dune Buggies (Beach Buggies), kit cars based on the chassis and running gear of fatally corroded VW Beetles. Here is the complete step by step practical guide to the equipment and building techniques needed to build a Buggy, as well as sound guidance on the choice of donor car and new components. With this manual in your workshop, you can build any VW-based Dune Buggy avoiding all the common pitfalls and money sapping mistakes, and ending up with a superb, roadworthy multi-purpose vehicle.
Paul initially trained as an aircraft technician with The British Aircraft Corporation. This was followed with a job at a company who specialised in preparing Chrysler cars and engines for rally, race, and speed hill climbs. He then retrained in illustration, working for publishers and popular magazines. This led to successful study for a Masters degree at the Royal College of Art, London, England. Since the mid eighties, Paul has taught full and part time in Illustration and Graphic Design in the UK, with guest lectureships in the USA and Sweden. He still manages to engage in his love and fascination of the motorcar.
There has been a huge resurgence of interest in Dune Buggies (Beach Buggies), kit cars based on the chassis and running gear of fatally corroded VW Beetles. Here is the complete step by step practical guide to the equipment and building techniques needed to build a Buggy, as well as sound guidance on the choice of donor car and new components. With this manual in your workshop, you can build any VW-based Dune Buggy avoiding all the common pitfalls and money sapping mistakes, and ending up with a superb, roadworthy multi-purpose vehicle.
Paul initially trained as an aircraft technician with The British Aircraft Corporation. This was followed with a job at a company who specialised in preparing Chrysler cars and engines for rally, race, and speed hill climbs. He then retrained in illustration, working for publishers and popular magazines. This led to successful study for a Masters degree at the Royal College of Art, London, England. Since the mid eighties, Paul has taught full and part time in Illustration and Graphic Design in the UK, with guest lectureships in the USA and Sweden. He still manages to engage in his love and fascination of the motorcar.
In the first-ever history book about BART, longtime agency spokesman Michael C. Healy gives an insider's account of the rapid transit system's inception, hard-won approval, construction, and operations, “warts and all.” Written with a master storyteller's homey wit and sharp attention to detail, Healy recreates the politically fraught venture to bring a new kind of public transit to the West Coast. What emerges is a sense of the individuals who made (and make) BART happen. From tales of staying up until 3:00 a.m. with Bill Stokes and Jack Everson to hear the election results for the rapid transit vote or weathering scandals, strikes, and growing pains, this look behind the scenes of an iconic, seemingly monolithic structure reveals people at their most human—and determined to change the status quo.
Brian Reed
Crewe Locomotive Works and its Men
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Brian Reed's account is widely acknowledged as the definitive work on the once mighty Crewe Works, with an emphasis on the pre-1947 period it also includes information on the post-nationalisation period. It provides a wealth of authoritative detail on the development of the works, including illuminating biographies of Crewe's major engineers, and is illustrated with historic photographs and line illustrations, including layout diagrams
Michael Köckritz
The Porsche Book
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The Porsche Book - a racing car legend becomes a coffee table book with class.
Driving a Porsche is a very special lifestyle, a philosophy of its own - and an absolute necessity in the life of a car fan. That's why this fascinating coffee table book inextricably combines everything that belongs to the luxury car brand created by Ferdinand Porsche: impressive photos, an avant-garde layout and cool texts make this coffee table book an essential must-have for Porsche enthusiasts and a valuable piece of German automotive history.
An illustrated book as luxurious as the cult sports car from Stuttgart – Germany.
The German car brand and success story of Porsche could not be presented in a more comprehensive and glamorous way than in this illustrated book: High-gloss images characterized by avant-garde aesthetics, exclusive design sketches and fascinating technical details on all series models - and yes, before you ask, the legendary Porsche 911 is also included! Michael Köckritz also sheds light on the significance of Porsche as a luxury brand and racing car icon, unique in the history of motor racing and sports cars. Expert interviews with insiders from the Porsche cosmos round off the coffee table book with fascinating details.
Avant-garde coffee table book from the pen of a car and lifestyle expert
Only a passionate Porsche driver like the journalist, artist and media maker Michael Köckritz can adequately describe the fascination of the sports car legend from Stuttgart - because he captures in words and intoxicating images exactly what Porsche fans and car collectors feel! The combination of luxury, lifestyle and the racing car history that unites perhaps the most legendary German car brand explains only part of the myth of "driving a Porsche". In the style of the car culture magazine ramp, founded by Köckritz, he presents a fascinating piece of automotive history in The Porsche Book: a coffee table book for which luxury is as natural as the number 911 is for Porsche.
Volodymyr Bilotkach
The Economics of Airlines
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The airline industry is fundamental to the workings of the global economy. Yet, ironically for an industry of such sheer scale and economic muscle, profit margins are razor thin and many airlines struggle to break even. The precarious economics of the sector were fully revealed when Covid-19 grounded flights across the world prompting many national carriers to seek government bailouts, while smaller airlines collapsed.
The third edition of this standard introduction to the economics of the airline industry has been fully updated and expanded to include new material on decarbonising aviation, aircraft leasing, the application of AI technology, changes to the international regulatory architecture, blocked mergers and the challenges facing Boeing, the cargo market, the growth of ancillary revenues, as well as further analysis of the impact of the pandemic on passenger numbers and the concept of delayed demand.
The book remains a comprehensive introduction to the economics of airlines, how carriers compete, how they develop their business, and how demand and cost structure, coupled with the complex regulatory regime, produces the industry we see today.
Volodymyr Bilotkach
The Economics of Airlines
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The airline industry is fundamental to the workings of the global economy. Yet, ironically for an industry of such sheer scale and economic muscle, profit margins are razor thin and many airlines struggle to break even. The precarious economics of the sector were fully revealed when Covid-19 grounded flights across the world prompting many national carriers to seek government bailouts, while smaller airlines collapsed.
The third edition of this standard introduction to the economics of the airline industry has been fully updated and expanded to include new material on decarbonising aviation, aircraft leasing, the application of AI technology, changes to the international regulatory architecture, blocked mergers and the challenges facing Boeing, the cargo market, the growth of ancillary revenues, as well as further analysis of the impact of the pandemic on passenger numbers and the concept of delayed demand.
The book remains a comprehensive introduction to the economics of airlines, how carriers compete, how they develop their business, and how demand and cost structure, coupled with the complex regulatory regime, produces the industry we see today.
Richard Gilbert
Transport Revolutions
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Modern societies rely upon prodigious amounts of oil for transport activity. The impacts over the near term of increasing oil scarcity and higher prices on transport will be among the major challenges facing humanity and will require a revolution in thinking about how we move people and goods.
Transport Revolutions analyzes five prior episodes of rapid and radical change in the way people and goods travel. It examines the worldwide state of transport today, especially its energy use and impacts, positive and negative. The authors then show how ample movement of people and freight could be sustained beyond 2025 with much-reduced dependence on oil, focusing on the United States and China. Preparations for the end of cheap oil include:
Substantial use of electricity for land transport, particularly through direct powering of vehicles
Use of wind to power water transport
Radical changes in aviation
Restructuring how transport is financed and managed
Written for transport professionals, those with a business interest in transport, and planners and policymakers, this book will appeal to anyone with an interest in how transport will evolve in the years ahead.
Richard Gilbert is a consultant on transport and energy and the author of numerous books, including several for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
Anthony Perl is a professor of political science and urban studies at Simon Fraser University. He has co-edited and co-authored four books, including New Departures: Rethinking Rail Passenger Policy for the Twenty-First Century and The Integrity Gap: Canada’s Environmental Policy and Institutions.
