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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
- Thomas Newton (of Lakenheath)
- Christopher Selleck
- Selleck Nicholls and Co
- Selleck Nicholls Williams
- Arthur Marshall (c1909-1969)
- Claude Selleck
- John Harrison (1896- )
- John Harrison (b.1897)
- Henry King Hiller
- Edward Cockey and Sons
- Preston George Tonkin
- Reginald Howard Tonkin
- Central Cornwall Concrete and Artificial Stone Co
- C. F. Palmer
- William Neville Ashbee
- Richard Inns and Co
- Pigott and Farrar
- Town - Bridlington
- Town - Bourne End
- Yale and Valor
- Richardson Tee Rycroft and Co
- William Fox and Sons (Smethwick)
- Townley and Sons
- William Sugg and Co
- Birmingham Museum
- The Engineer 1886/09/10
- 1914 Whitakers Red Book: I
- Perry and Co (Bow)
- K. and A. Water-Gas Co
- U. and A. Water Gas Co
- Herbert Edmund Smith
- William Ludlam Ramsden
- Gas Engineering
- J. H. Holt and Son
- Town - Lymm
- Lancashire Tool Co
- Michael Uttley
- William Blythe and Co
- Mexican Eagle Oil Co
- Country - Mexico