CAR BUILDERS' CYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN PRACTICE, 1940
by Wright, Roy V., editor
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very good plus
- Seller
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Talent, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York: Simmons-Boardman Publishing Company, 1940. Fifteenth edition . Hardcover. Very good plus. Definitions and typical illustrations of railroad and industrial cars, their parts and equipment; cars built in America for export to foreign countries; descriptions and illustrations of shops and equipment employed in the construction and repair of cars. 1352 pages with text, photographs of freight and passenger cars, and dimensional diagrams of the same. Features cars built by American Car and Foundry, Budd, General American Transportation Corp. (GATX), Pullman-Standard, Greenville Steel Car Co., The Bettendorf Company, to name but a few. Bound in black cloth. Mining Department stamp on the front endpapers. A very good plus copy.
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- Bookseller
- Robert Gavora, Fine and Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 29270
- Title
- CAR BUILDERS' CYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN PRACTICE, 1940
- Author
- Wright, Roy V., editor
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good plus
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Fifteenth edition
- Publisher
- Simmons-Boardman Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1940
- Keywords
- First edition, railroad, railroads, railroading, trains, freight-cars, passenger-cars.
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Robert Gavora, Fine and Rare Books
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Talent, Oregon
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- Cloth
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