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1.   Aerial Fire Apparatus (The Evolution of)

An inventive machinist in the San Francisco Fire Department repair shop, Daniel Hayes patented the first successful aerial ladder in American in 1868. Includes 350 B&W and 48 color photos. Soft Cover.
Author: Walter McCall - Stock Code: 88016
Karen's Price: $29.95 - List Price: $32.95


2.   Aerial Fire Trucks

Take a look at the fire trucks that elevate water and firefighters via hydraulic platforms and ladders at a fire scene, the aerials. A comprehensive look at all manufacturers of aerials that give you a brief overview of early aerials, then concentrates on the trucks in use today (1950 to 1999). 40 b&w and 80 color ill. Soft Cover.
Author: Larry Shapiro - Stock Code: 88000
Karen's Price: OUT-OF-PRINT


3.   American Fire Station

The fascinating history of fire stations from the 1880s stables filled with horse-drawn fire wagons through the advent of "modern" styled stations of the late 1960s. Includes historical black and white and modern color photography of restored stations, vehicles, and equipment. See how fire engines, firefighters, and their gear evolved in The American Fire Station. 71 b&w & 151 color. Soft Cover.
Author: Gerry & Janet Souter - Stock Code: 88001
Karen's Price: OUT-OF-PRINT


4.   American LaFrance 500/600 Series Photo Archive

This is the first hydraulically-operated all-steel aerial ladder along with the industry's first compact, cab-forward aerial ladder truck. But the biggest news that eventful year was its ultra-streamlined 500 Series fire apparatus. With its dramatically clean styling the art deco 500/600 Series suddenly made everything else look old-fashioned. Soft Cover.
Author: Walter M. P. McCall - Stock Code: 40033
Karen's Price: $29.95 - List Price: $32.95


5.   Autocar Trucks: 1899-1950 Photo Archive

Early advertisements declared "The design of the Autocar chassis lends itself to almost every style of body." Large, detailed archival B&W photographs with informative captions tell the story from the first Autocar Driver Cab was introduced. Soft Cover.
Author: Robert Gabrick - Stock Code: 88012
Karen's Price: $27.95 - List Price: $29.95


6.   Autocar Trucks: 1950-1987 Photo Archive

In 1950 the Autocar Driver Cab was introduced, which along with the Autocar Sleeper Cab and the Autocar Aluminum Driver Cab, was used on all conventional models produced until Volvo replaced it after purchasing Autocar. Large format photos with informative captions illustrate all of the major models produced during this period. A brief history of the Autocar company is included. B&W Photos. Soft Cover.
Author: Robert Gabrick - Stock Code: 88007
Karen's Price: OUT-OF-PRINT


7.   Big Rigs of the 1950s

Includes Brockway, Autocar Company, Chevrolet, Dodge and more. Filled with B&W and some color photos. Soft Cover.
Author: Ron Adams - Stock Code: 40034
Karen's Price: OUT-OF-PRINT


8.   Big Rigs of the 1970s

Travel the 1970s, what may have been the last great era of the big rigs, with the man who knows semi trucks better than anyone. Spotlighting manufacturers from Mack and Freightliner to White, Peterbilt, and Kenworth, Autocar, GMC, Ford, Marmon, International, Diamond Reo and featuring Adams' fabulous photography, this is the 1970s on the highway. Soft Cover.
Author: Ron Adams - Stock Code: 40044
Karen's Price: $22.95 - List Price: $24.95


9.   Brass Train Guide Book Deluxe Edition

A compilation of high quality photos and the most accurate data of the World of Brass Train Models. Accurate lists of brass Models. Complete details of identifying traits of each model with each railway. Historical accounts of the evolution of Brass Trains. Hard Cover.
Author: Dan Glasure - Stock Code: 13277
Karen's Price: $49.95


10.   Brockway Trucks 1948-1961 Photo Archive

From its beginnings in 1912, Brockway earned a reputation for reliability and rugged design that was carried on after the company was acquired by Mack Trucks in October, 1956. This collection of photographs highlights Brockways post-war years and into the early Sixties. Photographs from the Mack Trucks Historical Museum Archives. 120 B&W Photos. Soft Cover.
Author: Thomas E. Warth - Stock Code: 88009
Karen's Price: $14.95 - List Price: $29.95


11.   Bucyrus Heavy Equipment

Bucyrus-Erie Company is a name synonymous with moving the earth. From the smallest loader-backhoe to some of the largest machines ever to move on land, no other company has produced such a wide variety of types and sizes of excavating equipment. With a rich heritage going back 128 years the company, now known as Bucyrus International Inc., is still designing and building some of the world's largest shovels and walking draglines. Soft Cover.
Author: Keith Haddock - Stock Code: 60015
Karen's Price: $36.95 - List Price: $39.95


12.   Caterpillar Earthmovers at Work

Soft Cover.330 b/w photos.

From building roads through dense forests, mining the earth for raw ore, laying pipe, constructing power developments, to creating golf courses, Caterpillars earthmoving machines have played an important role in shaping our world.

Caterpillar Earthmovers at Work features Caterpillars in action moving massive amounts of rock, dirt, trees and anything else in their path. See these machines used in forestry & logging, road construction, railway construction, hydroelectric power projects, mining and much more.
Author: Bill Robertson - Stock Code: 88023
Karen's Price: $27.95 - List Price: $29.95



13.   Dodge Heavy-Duty Trucks 1928-1975

From Dodges earliest three-ton models in 1928 to the 1975 models that never happened because Chryslers management pulled the plug on the heavy-duty truck business, this informative reference guide chronologically walks the reader right through time. With this easy-to-follow format, find a specific model year or time period to know what your favorite trucks specifications were, what engine it used, what improvements and changes were made on it from the prior year, and so much more. Vintage photos. Soft Cover.
Author: Don Bunn - Stock Code: 88030
Karen's Price: $27.95 - List Price: $29.95


14.   Earthmover Encyclopedia

Here, in detailed pictures and authoritative text, are the machines that have moved the earth from the 1800s to today. This illustrated encyclopedia catalogs nearly every piece of heavy equipment ever made, by model and manufacturer, from the largest dozers and diggers to smaller utility tractors and loaders. 329 pages. Soft Cover.
Author: Keith Haddock - Stock Code: 60008
Karen's Price: TEMPORARILY OUT-OF-PRINT


15.   Emergency One Fire Apparatus 1974-2007

Emergency One rocketed to the front rank of the U.S. fire apparatus industry in less than a decade. This rise stunned its long established competitors and changed the way fire apparatus was constructed in the U.S. This is the story, including aircraft rescue vehicles. 302 color photos. 112 pages. Soft Cover.
Author: Kent Parrish - Stock Code: 80016
Karen's Price: $27.95 - List Price: $29.95


16.   Encyclopedia of Canadian Fire Apparatus

Soft Cover.

A complete encyclopedia of every Canadian Fire Apparatus Company of the 20th century. Each company is listed alphabetically and its apparatus is documented in text and high quality photographs.

There have been over 20,000 pieces of fire apparatus built in Canada, and every manufacturer is documented here.

Includes Allain, Almonte, Amertek, Anderson, Bickle and Bickle Seagrave, Carl Thibault, Ft. Garry, Hub, King and King Seagrave, LaFleur, LaFrance, Marsh, Maxi Metal, Metalfab, Phoenix, Pierreville, Superior, Thibault, Tibotrac, Waltek and more.
Author: Bob Dubbert - Stock Code: 88024
Karen's Price: $22.95 - List Price: $29.95



17.   Extreme Trucks

Extreme Trucks includes custom rigs from Peterbilt, Kenworth, and Freightliner. Dozens of America’s most radical and desirable customs roll across the pages of this stunning collection. Photo illustration wizard Greg Smith, digitally combines the best semi trucks with beautiful backgrounds in this must-have book. Soft Cover.
Author: Greg Smith - Stock Code: 88302
Karen's Price: $9.95


18.   FWD Trucks: 1910-1974 Photo Archive

Established in 1910, the Four Wheel Drive Auto Company was created to produce automobiles. "The Battleship," America's first four-wheel-drive automobile was offered for sale. However, with WWI looming the U.S. Army needed trucks and FWD changed direction resulting the in production of over 24,000 FWD Model B Trucks. B&W photos. Soft Cover.
Author: Roert Gabrick - Stock Code: 88002
Karen's Price: $27.95 - List Price: $29.95


19.   Federal Trucks Photo Archive

Martin L. Plucher, vice president and general manager of the newly formed Federal Motor Truck Company, personally conducted the first Federal truck to Lynn, Massachusetts, for delivery to its owner. From 1910 to 1959, Federal assembled over 160,000 trucks for all types of uses including delivery vans, buses, garbage trucks, and over the road heavy haulers. Soft Cover.
Author: Robert Gabrick - Stock Code: 88036
Karen's Price: $27.95 - List Price: $29.95


20.   Ferries of San Francisco Bay

Decades before San Francisco Bay was crisscrossed by bridges, an extensive network of ferries moved passengers, vehicles, and freight between San Francisco, Alameda, Marin, Solano, Sonoma, and Contra Costa Counties. Very few of the ferries survive today, but at one time, elegant and sturdy vessels like the Santa Clara, Sacramento, Encinal, Eureka, Oakland, and Tamalpais ruled the waves and supported the critical commerce of this region. Soft Cover.
Author: Paul Trimble & William Knorp - Stock Code: 12818
Karen's Price: $18.95 - List Price: $19.99


21.   Fighting Fire: Trucks, Tools, & Tactics

In powerful, on-the-scene pictures and text, author/photographer Shapiro explores the special techniques and equipment brought to bear on fires in cities and suburbs, rural outposts and wilderness, in homes and industrial structures. He also takes a close look at hair-raising rescues and other "non-firefighting" tasks that firefighters find themselves facing. From bold photography and detailed descriptions of fire fighting to close-up looks at the fire house and its full array of equipment--trucks, ladders, pumpers, and tankers--this book conveys both the technical nitty-gritty and the fiery action of meeting and containing one of nature's most brutal forces. Hard Cover.
Author: Larry Shapiro - Stock Code: 40046
Karen's Price: $31.95 - List Price: $35.00


22.   Fire Engines

With sirens screaming, this blazing book delivers a stunning tribute to firefighting history over the past 200 years. From human bucket brigades and horse-drawn steam pumpers, Fire Engines arrives on-scene to fans the flames of technology from the earliest rigs to todays powerful trucks, engines and rescue vehicles. 168 color and 45 black & white photos. Soft cover.
Author: Hans Halberstadt - Stock Code: 40029
Karen's Price: $22.95 - List Price: $24.95


23.   Fire Trucks - Used

Like new condition. 1987. Hard cover. Dust cover in like new condition.American fire fighters on the street.
Author: Rasmussen - Stock Code: 20160U
Karen's Price: $20.00


24.   Ford Medium-Duty Trucks: 1917-1998 Photo History

Ford Medium-duty trucks are rugged, dependable, economical, and easy to work on. Ford helped ease the growing pains of American evolution by building hundreds of thousands of tough trucks for medium-duty service. This book focuses on Ford's medium-duty line—everything is covered from the early Canopied Express and continues through the various models and engines, sales figures, styling and technical developments, and more.
Author: Paul G. McLaughlin - Stock Code: 88008
Karen's Price: $22.95 - List Price: $24.95


25.   German Firefighting Vehicles WW II

Hard Cover.Over 300 b/w photographs!!!

This book presents over 300 photographs showing the service of German fire fighting vehicles in World War II, with the emphasis on the various vehicles, manufacturers, and the organization of the German fire fighting regiments.
Author: Michael Foedrowitz - Stock Code: 40024
Karen's Price: $27.95 - List Price: $29.95



26.   Heavy Equipment

Soft Cover.240 color photos.

Monster machines of all shapes and sized are featured in this colorful package. Bulldozers, Giant Dump Trucks, and Earthmovers combine in this value priced paperback.

Contained in glossy pictorial card covers are 287 printed pages shared between text and mostly colour, but a few black and white photographs.
Author: Michael Alves - Stock Code: 88025
Karen's Price: OUT-OF-PRINT



27.   Heavy Rescue Trucks:1931 - 2000 Photo Gallery

Soft Cover.400 b/w photos.

For more than a half-century, heavy rescue trucks have played a vital role in plucking hapless souls from such precarious situations as fires, auto accidents, floods, and other disasters.

This comprehensive history uses a collection of 400 factory and on-scene photographs to examine and depict the evolution of these life-saving vehicles and their specialized equipment.

The book features rigs from early builders like Gerstenlager, Swab, and Reading, along with modern trucks from well-known companies like E-One, Pierce, Saulsbury, and Supervac. The trucks are shown in both small towns and major metorpolitan areas across the United States.
Author: PAUL BARRETT - Stock Code: 88026
Karen's Price: $18.95 - List Price: $24.95



28.   International Heavy Trucks of the 1950s

With worn-out trucks after World War II and plans laid out by the Federal Government to build the Interstate Highway System, truck production really took off in the 1950s.Includes B&W photos of Garrett Freightlines, Southern Pacific Truck Service, North American Van Lines and many more. This large-picture format book shows the fine details of these trucks at work. Soft cover.
Author: Ron Adams - Stock Code: 88005
Karen's Price: $27.95 - List Price: $29.95


29.   International Heavy Trucks of the 1960s

The success of International's 1950s semi-trucks continued into the 1960s. Many series were carried over from the 1950s, but International now offered more models in each series. The pictures you see in this book mainly cover the bigger straight trucks and over-the-road and off-highway trucks; the popular trucks like the V series, R series, D-400, DCO-400, and CO-4000. Many of these trucks are long gone. Soft Cover.
Author: Ron Adams - Stock Code: 88004
Karen's Price: $27.95 - List Price: $29.95


30.   John Bean & FMC Fire Apparatus

The diverse Food Machinery & Chemical Corporation, later named FMC Corporation, made chemical & agricultural equipment dating back to the late 1800s. The Bean Spray Pump Company was an FMC division, changed to the John Bean Mfg. Co. in 1915 & sometime in the late 1930s an orchard owner used his dependable John Bean sprayer to extinguish a house fire. The success story led to the development of the high pressure fog system for putting out fires. 140 B&W and 180 Color Photos. Soft Cover.
Author: John H. Rieth - Stock Code: 88017
Karen's Price: $29.95 - List Price: $32.95


31.   Kenworth Semi Trucks

Customized Kenworth semi trucks are the kings of the open road. Dozens of America’s most radical and desirable customs roll across the pages of this stunning collection. Photo illustration wizard Greg Smith, digitally combines the best Kenworth semi trucks with beautiful backgrounds in this must-have book. Soft Cover.
Author: Greg Smith - Stock Code: 88303
Karen's Price: $9.95


32.   Marion Construction Machinery 1884-1975 Photo Archive

Soft Cover.2002.

Marion Construction Machinery 1884-1975 Photo Archive is a photographic history which includes photos of shovels,draglines,backhoes,clamshells,cranes,log loaders and railroad ditchers.
Author: Historical Construction Equipment Association - Stock Code: 88013
Karen's Price: $27.95 - List Price: $29.95



33.   Motorized Fire Apparatus of the West: 1900-1960

Fire apparatus used in the Western States often tended towards unique designs and local manufacturers. This is a pictorial history of the development and operation of motorized fire apparatus used in the Western States. Historians will enjoy the information on Western fire apparatus manufacturers. Includes info on Eastern manufacturers who supplied fire apparatus that was used in the West. A fourth chapter covers apparatus on commercial chassis. Soft Cover. More than 525 photos.
Author: Wayne Sorensen & Donald F. Wood - Stock Code: 40028
Karen's Price: $39.95 - List Price: $43.00


34.   NEW YORK CITY FIRE TRUCKS

Discover the equipment that New York's bravest have taken into battle, from the earliest steam pumpers and horse-drawn rigs, to the modern hi-tech marvels.

Includes equipment lost in the World Trade Center disaster, and some of the machines targeted to replace those trucks that were lost. In Chapter 12 there are photos commemorating 9-11-01.

400 photos, complete with identification and insightful commentary and an 8 page color section spotlighting some FDNY's most colorful vehicles. Soft cover.
Author: SORENSON / WOOD - Stock Code: 88301
Karen's Price: NO LONGER CARRY



35.   Navy & Marine Corps Fire Apparatus:1836-2000 Photo Gallery

400 b/w photos. Rare and fascinating photos of Navy and Marine fire apparatus used at shore installations worldwide. Filled with horse-drawn vehicles, early motorized fire trucks, unusual vehicles built for special operations, commercial and custom chassis and military fire department "built" trucks. See structural pumpers, aerial ladders, water tankers, brush trucks, airfield rescue fire fighting vehicles, and remote controlled robots built by US and worldwide manufacturers including American LaFrance, FWD, Mack, Peter Prisch, Seagrave, Darley and others. Soft cover.
Author: Bill Killen - Stock Code: 88027
Karen's Price: $19.95 - List Price: $24.95


36.   Peterbilt Trucks 1939-1979

Starting in 1939 when Peterbilt was formed this era of trucking is portrayed through large period photos when these heavy haulers were put to work. Captions tell about the truck and the companies and owners who operated them. 128 pages. Soft Cover.
Author: Ron Adams - Stock Code: 88029
Karen's Price: $27.95 - List Price: $29.95


37.   Pierce Fire Apparatus 1939-2006

An informative history of Pierce fire apparatus from its first fire apparatus bodies to its ultra-modern machines of today. The progression of Pierce fire apparatus is displayed through the use of black and white photographs from both well-known fire apparatus photographers and company archives. 50 color & 300 B&W photos. Soft Cover.
Author: Kent Parrish & Shane MacKichan - Stock Code: 88031
Karen's Price: $29.95 - List Price: $32.95


38.   Pittsburgh's Vintage Fireman - 1790 - 1915 -Used

Soft Cover.May 1997. First Edition. First Printing. Fine Condition.

This is the story of Pittsburgh's vintage firemen, intertwined with the history of the Iron City and surroundings.

Wonderful vintage black and white photos throughout the book!.
Author: Worley - Stock Code: 74061U
Karen's Price: $49.95



39.   R.G. LeTourneau Heavy Equipment: The Electric Drive Era 1953-1970

In the history of heavy equipment development, no single man's name is more respected as that of LeTourneau. His designs of the 1920s, 30s and 40s laid the fundamental groundwork for many of the earthmoving machines we see today. This volume covers the Electric Drive Era from 1953-1970, including the model LT-360 at 5,080 horsepower and 360 tons. Soft Cover.
Author: Eric Orlemann - Stock Code: 88037
Karen's Price: $27.95 - List Price: $29.95


40.   Semi-Truck Color History - Used

Soft cover.1997. Like new condition.

14 Chapters, 128 pages with index. Many color and black/white photos. Some of the trucks highlighted are: Refrigerated haulers, dumpers, petroleum haulers, flatbed and oversize bullhaulers, hay and alfalfa, log, lumber, bedbug, rolling billboards, big rigs and famous truckers trucks!!!
Author: Holtzman - Stock Code: 74085U
Karen's Price: $12.95



41.   Semi-Trucks of the 1950s

By the 1950s new highways were being built, new trucking companies were being formed and old ones revived. Semi-trucks helped pave the way for this huge growth spurt in America with trucks built by Mack, GMC, Chevrolet, Ford, Dodge, International, Peterbilt, Diamond T, Reo, Autocar, Brockway, Sterling and others. Soft Cover.
Author: Ron Adams - Stock Code: 88035
Karen's Price: $27.95 - List Price: $29.95


42.   TOW TRUCKS A PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY

Soft Cover. This is a collection of towing images gathered from many corners of the world.

Some of the truck makers included within are:Cheverolet,Dodge,Ford,Diamond T,Federal,FWD,GMC,International,Jeep,Mack,Nash,Studebaker,White and more.

There is a chapter dedicated to preserved and restored trucks and Military trucks.Color and black and white photographs throughout.
Author: GUNNELL/COLLINS - Stock Code: 88033
Karen's Price: $18.95 - List Price: $21.99



43.   The Trucking Pioneers - Book II - Used

Soft cover. 1991. Front cover has rub mark right upper corner. Otherwise in very good condition.

During the 50's and early 1960's the trucking industry was in its hey-day.Many trucking companies blossomed out to become giants and fortunes were made.

Many of these trucking giants have already been merged or have gone out of business, and only a very few remain today.

We simply hope that these stories and photos about the trucking companies and the men who drove them will continue to live on.
Author: Terebecki - Stock Code: 74097U
Karen's Price: SOLD



44.   Tonka

Hard Cover.150 color and 25 archival images

Tonka takes you through the early days of the company, to its purchase by Hasbro in 1991. Through the years, there were many ups and downs, but a few things remained constant: the rugged quality, realism, and durability of the toys.

The employees were an integral part of the company, and profiles of a handful of former employees help bring a personal level to the story of the company that drove its way to the top of the toy truck industry.
Author: Dennis David - Stock Code: 88021
Karen's Price: $13.95 - List Price: $14.99



45.   Truck and Vans 1897-1927 - Used

1972. First American edition. Book in very fine condition. Dust jacket very good condition. Eighty pages of color illustrations depict important vehicles from the United States, Great Britain and other European countries

Includes a variety of vintage vehicles originating as long ago as the closing years of the nineteenth century.Also includes the colorful vehicles which served public authorities throughout the world.
Author: Marshall / Bishop - Stock Code: 20347U
Karen's Price: $4.00



46.   Trucking in America - Moving the Goods - Used

Soft cover. 1995. Very good condition. A nostalgic reflection on the rigs that rolled the roads of America in the glory years of truck history.Covered within are Transporters,Moving Vans,SemiTractors,Reefers,Tankers,Vans & Wagons,Dump Trucks,Delivery Trucks,Lumber Trucks,Express Trucks and more.
Author: Kowalke - Stock Code: 740107U
Karen's Price: SOLD


47.   Twin Cities by Trolley: The Streetcar Era in Minneapolis & St. Paul

The development of light rail transit in the Twin Cities has been an undeniable success. In TWIN CITIES BY TROLLEY, a rolling snapshot of Minneapolis and St. Paul from the 1880's to the 1950's, when the streetcar system shaped the growth and character of the entire metropolitan area, is wonderfully presented with more than 400 photos and 70 maps. Hard Cover.
Author: John Diers & Aaron Isaacs - Stock Code: 16559
Karen's Price: $36.95 - List Price: $39.95


48.   Ultra-Custom Semi Trucks

This book focuses on custom working trucks - Kenworths, Peterbilts, Freightliners, Western Stars, Internationals, Mack, even a GMC, offering ultimate examples of custom paint jobs, sleeper units, lighting, and more. Side stories showcase 2- and 3-generation trucking families, plus “Monster Motifs” and "Cutting Edge" customization with examples of gorgeous paint, lighting, and custom metal work. A special section is devoted to trucks inspired by Harley-Davidson motorcycles. Soft Cover.
Author: Bette S. Garber - Stock Code: 88015
Karen's Price: $16.95 - List Price: $17.95


49.   Van Pelt Fire Apparatus: 1925-1987 Photo Archive

Van Pelt was the west coast fire apparatus builder that was in business the longest, from 1925-1987 and became the largest builder of fire apparatus west of the Rocky Mountains. Van Pelt built all types including pumpers, water tenders (tankers), aerials, elevating platforms, brush engines, and more. See them all in highly detailed black & white photographs. Fire buffs will appreciate the in-depth coverage of this interesting company. Soft Cover.
Author: Chuck Madderom - Stock Code: 88200
Karen's Price: $27.95 - List Price: $29.95


50.   White Trucks of the 1950s

White Motor Company was a major producer of American Trucks between 1919 & 1980 with its primary manufacturing facilities in Cleveland, Ohio. This book reviews White medium & heavy-duty truck models in roughly the decade of the 1950s, including the WC, 3000, 4000, 5000 & 9000 series. 172 B&W & 8 Color photos. Soft Cover.
Author: Barry R. Bertram - Stock Code: 88018
Karen's Price: $29.95 - List Price: $32.95

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