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Digital Library
We have digitised thousands of early publications from 1833-1950 and these are available in PDF format for a small subscription.
General Engineering
The Engineer - (1856-1950)
Engineering - (1866-1950)
Automotive
Autocar - (1895-1915)
Automobile Engineer - (1910-1930)
Automotor Journal - (1896-1917)
Light Car and Cyclecar - (1912-1939)
Motor - (1902-1914)
Books
Life of Sir William Fairbairn by William Pole
Life of Robert Stephenson by William Pole
Life of Richard Trevithick by F. Trevithick
Men of Invention and Industry by Samuel Smiles
The Evolution of the Parsons Steam Turbine by Alexander Richardson
Latest additions
- Whitworths
- W. and M. Pumphrey
- Pumphrey of Thornaby
- Spottiswoode Ballantyne and Co
- Herbert Benham and Co
- Benham and Sons
- Percy Benham
- McCorquodale (Scotland)
- Stag Plastics
- William Robert Clapcott Wakley
- W. R. Wakley
- John Maple
- John Blundell Maple
- Maple and Co
- Henry Laurence Peters
- Partington Steel and Iron Co
- James Elston Waring
- John William Waring
- Turnell and Odell
- Turner and Odell
- Chapman Packaging
- John Horn (of Glasgow)
- 1977 Health and Safety Exemptions
- McCorquodale and Co
- Norton Opax
- Samuel James Waring (1837-1907)
- Samuel James Waring
- Waring and Gillow
- Gillow
- Gillow and Co
- Tornado
- Smith Industries
- Staedtler (UK)
- 1982 Health and Safety Exemptions
- Winthrop Laboratories
- William Watson (Dundee)
- W. Moore and Osborne
- W. L. Miller and Sons
- Synthetic Fabrics (Scotland)
- Sweetheart Bristol