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Dejiny rýchlosti
Martin Roach rozpráva neobyčajný príbeh ľudí posadnutých rýchlosťou. Jeho veľkolepá kniha je poctou jazdcom i konštruktérom áut, motoriek, ako aj iných bizarných vozidiel. Dejiny rýchlosti sú oslavou odvahy, odhodlania a inovácií. Od Camilla Jenatzyho, ktorý v roku 1899 ako prvý človek prekonal rýchlosť 100 km/h, až po modernú éru automobilov s prúdovým a raketovým pohonom. Kniha sa venuje technológiám, Formule 1, zberateľským autám, motoristickým subkultúram a mnohým iným témam. Dejiny rýchlosti potešia aj nadšencov veteránov, fanúšikov pretekania, lámania rekordov a prekonávania nemožného. Knihu dopĺňajú stovky dobových fotografií a historických dokumentov, ktoré ilustrujú, že rýchlu jazdu sme milovali odnepamäti.
Ako dokáže Bugatti Chiron prekonať vzdialenosť jeden
a pol futbalového ihriska za jednu sekundu?
Ktoré vozidlo používa rakety generujúce rovnaké teplo,
aké panuje vo vnútri sopky?
A kto dostal vôbec prvú pokutu za prekročenie rýchlosti?
Cars
Discover more about the invention, development and future of the automobile in 10 captivating essays for those with a need for speed!Cars have shaped our world, giving us the freedom to travel and changing the pace of life as we know it. But how were cars created? How does fuel get us from A to B? And what will cars look like in years to com? rom understanding how cars were first produced, to showing how cars are adapting for our environment, and even helping you to choose a vehicle that's right for you, this book is the essential guide to understanding how automobiles continue to shape our lives.
200 Years of Britain's Railways in 14 Journeys
Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine… E. M. Forster The world’s first public railway, the Stockton & Darlington Railway, opened in the northeast of England in 1825 and marked the start of rail travel in Britain and across the world. Over the following two centuries the rail network expanded over the country and led to the construction of some of the most spectacular examples of British architecture and engineering.Through a selection of 14 varied journeys, this book takes the reader on a breathtaking illustrated tour of Britain’s rail network, taking in stations, bridges, viaducts and other architectural elements, but also the people and personalities associated with them. This beautiful and engaging book is filled with stunning illustrations by the author and will appeal to anyone with an interest in Britain’s railway history and architecture.
Cars Reimagined - Restomods
Restomods: The New World Order of Handcrafted Cars celebrates the thrilling world of super-refined and highly personalised car restoration. Fusing classic design with cutting edge technology requires an almost impossible level of imagination, creativity and workmanship, resulting in models that frequently test the technical boundaries of vehicle design and engineering. Restomods collects over 50 companies who are at the forefront of this world, among them Singer, Eagle, Tuthill & Alfaholics. Each of the featured firms has contributed directly to these pages, supplying specifications, quotes and the very highest quality professional photographs. The result is a spectacular volume that showcases the new world order of personalised automobile restoration. Restomods: The New World Order of Handcrafted Cars is the first volume in the Cars Reimagined series, showcasing the cars and their creators who are pushing motor vehicles to the next level.
Sightseeing Buses in Britain
While bus services in Britain have generally been in decline since the heady days of the early 1950s, there has been one area of bus operation that has seen significant growth. There has been a boom in overseas tourists to Britain’s historic towns and cities with the advent of cheaper long-haul flights and budget European airlines, along with the Channel Tunnel.Bus companies started to offer tours of these towns and cities, often using open-top buses. This idea was not new. London Transport had an existing Round London Sightseeing Tour which had been started in 1951 for the Festival of Britain. In 1972 open-top buses were hired in as an experiment, this proving successful and services were expanded rapidly.In Scotland, Edinburgh Corporation Transport had a long tradition of sightseeing tours. Elsewhere, sightseeing tours took off in such locations as Bath, York, Oxford and Cambridge. As tourists came all year round it became viable to operate separate vehicles and even invest in new buses. New developments included Hop-on-Hop-off tours and tours with taped commentaries in a variety of languages. New specialist companies began to emerge. Guide Friday started up in a small way at Stratford-upon-Avon and spread nationwide. They were replaced by the City Sightseeing brand started by Ensignbus which operates internationally.Malcolm Batten offers a fascinating photographic tour of the sightseeing buses of Britain.
100 let autobusů v Praze a historie autobusového dispečinku
Stoletý vývoj pražské městské autobusové dopravy znamenal proměnu periferních linek vedených od konečných stanic tramvajových tratí k plnohodnotnému dopravnímu sytému, který si od konce 60. let minulého století vyžádal samostatné dispečerské řízení.
Kniha vychází z řady archivních pramenů a nechává nahlédnout pod pokličku dispečerské činnosti, nezbytné součásti každodenního provozu autobusových linek. Historii autobusového dispečinku, podrobná data i autentické vzpomínky důležitých aktérů naleznete v publikaci doplněné o bohatě ilustrované kalendárium představující historii provozu pražských autobusů.
Isle of Wight and Central South Coast Buses
The principal bus operator on the Isle of Wight is Southern Vectis, the name a nod to the Romans who once inhabited the island. In more recent times, from the reign of Queen Victoria, the popularity of the island increased – as has the provision for transport. Dr Beeching’s axe saw the once extensive rail network on the island reduced to just 9 miles of mainline track after 1966. This remains the same today with Island Line serving eight stations between Ryde Pier and Shanklin. This presented bus and coach companies with the opportunity to expand their operations to fill the gaps. Matt Cooper explores these operations on the island from the late 1990s before venturing across the Solent to the mainland to look at bus and coach operators running along the central South Coast. Loosely covering the area between Dorset and Sussex, the operators within it are as varied as the vehicle types to be seen. Both the ‘tourist trail’ and the routes travelled regularly by local residents are documented here.With a superb array of images, this book will be of interest to South Coast bus enthusiasts and will hopefully inspire visits to this beautiful part of the country.
Porsche Carrera 3.0
The last of a line of illustrious 1970s Carreras to evolve from the revered 1973 RS model, the Carrera 3.0 has become a sought-after classic for Porsche collectors and enthusiasts. In this authoritative and readable book, Porsche Club GB registrar and owner Guy White provides the full background history and model development of a car that is widely considered the pinnacle of the 1970s Carrera series. All aspects of engine development, transmission and running gear as well as bodywork, interior and competition history are covered.Accompanied by both contemporary and archive colour illustrations and packed with useful tips, this book is a concise and complete tribute to a very special car.
The Birmingham to Derby Line
This important stretch of railway line through the Midlands connects England’s second city with the strategically important railway centre of Derby. The area is served by local passenger services as well as forming part of the strategically important cross-country route linking Scotland and the North East of England with Bristol and the South West. However, it is the variety of freight traffic that draws the rail enthusiast to this area. The frequent passing of coal trains may have ceased, but this key stretch of railway still has a lot to offer. From oil and steel to aggregates and container traffic, all the country’s main freight operators are regular visitors to the area. This rail enthusiast popularity extends to the intermediate stations of Burton-on-Trent and Tamworth. The latter’s split-level platforms are particularly busy as the town sits at the crossroads of this cross-country route and the West Coast Main Line, which passes below. Less well-known outside of the enthusiast circle is the important junction at Water Orton, where services towards Leicester and the east of England leave the main Derby line.In this publication, John Jackson examines the 40 miles of railway from Birmingham to Derby in detail. The selection of photographs includes a nostalgic look back at the now-closed diesel depot at Saltley, close to the heart of Birmingham, as well as demonstrating the railway’s importance to Derby that continues to the present day.
Tanfield Waggonway
Dating back to the 1720s and still partly in use today as the preserved Tanfield Railway, the line has a justifiable claim to be the world’s oldest railway, running on the track bed that 300 years ago was travelled over by horse-drawn coal waggons on wooden rails. In these pages the history of the Tanfield Waggonway is told, from its origins as part of a network of wooden waggonways that ran from coal pits to the River Tyne, its rebuild with iron rails and inclined planes, introduction of locomotives in the 1880s through to its closure in the early 1960s.Lavishly illustrated throughout with rare images covering the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Rob Langham covers the fascinating pre-preservation history of the 300-year-old Tanfield Waggonway.
The Titanic Fleet
On the night of 14–15 April 1912 RMS Titanic sank with the loss of around 1,500 people after hitting an iceberg. The ship was on its maiden voyage across the Atlantic to New York and it was the world’s worst shipping disaster at that time. The dramatic events surrounding the tragedy have captured the world’s imagination ever since and yet the story covers many more ships than just Titanic itself – from sister ships and tenders bringing out the passengers and mail, to passing ships that warned of ice, the rescue ships that raced to the scene when disaster struck and those who arrived later and collected the bodies of those who lost their lives. Controversy surrounded some ships such as Californian immediately after the disaster and ships such as the Carpathia and Mesaba which ended up becoming shipwrecks themselves many years later. All the ships involved had their own fascinating careers, some serving their country as well as their owners, transporting or evacuating troops in wartime, experiencing collisions and being torpedoed by U-boats and all sailed in an era when today’s safety rules and sophisticated chart data fed by a global positioning system did not exist.Richard M. Jones reveals the stories behind the ships involved in the Titanic disaster in this lavishly illustrated book which will appeal to those with an interest in the Titanic as well maritime history.
The Untold Railway Stories
A compendium of new writing telling of little known journeys and uncovered histories of railway routes around the world - from the UK, Europe and Africa to North America, the Middle East and Asia. This collection will appeal to general readers around travel, history and railways, as well as readers of post-colonial writings, geo-political explorations or global family histories.From the Burmese highlands to the British Pennines, from the history of a precipitous coastal stretch of Indian railroad to a cross-continent odyssey on African railways, this is a new way of exploring the world and its history, by train.The Untold Railways Stories is a testament to both the joy and impact of train travel - to the ambition and ingenuity, and also to destruction and sacrifice within the history of passenger railways - and is published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of first passenger railway line.
For the Love of Trains
Coincides with the 200th anniversary of the modern railway - with a foreword by Pete Waterman"As a railwayman's son I am chuffed to write a book in celebration of trains for the bicentenary year of the world's first public railway. Covering every aspect from the Victorian railway mania, the heyday and end of steam, the railway at war and my boyhood passion of trainspotting, to the triumph and debacle of HS1 and HS2."Dedicated 'Puffer Nutter' Paul Routledge has loved trains all his life. Whether it's chugging along on a scenic steam railway or whizzing through towns and fields to the other side of the country, for Paul it has never lost its magic. A journalist for nearly 60 years years and Daily Mirror columnist for 27 of those, Paul has written regularly about the joys of train travel. Now the country is set to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the modern railway - The Stockton & Darlington Railway opened on September 27, 1825 - when better to pen a love letter to train? ooking at everything from the earliest days, fascinating stories, famous faces and future of the railways, Paul's ode to trains is a must-read for any railway fan as well as those enthusiastic amateurs who just want to know a little more about transport they possibly take for granted.
Railroads in the Midwest
Discover how railroad companies in America's heartland developed a monumental network that spanned nearly 70,000 route miles. Over a century, a wide array of carriers ranging from short lines to trunk roads spread through the Midwest and represented over 35% of the country's rail mileage in the 1920s. Railroads in the Midwest is a portrait of two premier rail hub rivals, Chicago and St. Louis, and of Iowa and Ohio, which boasted the highest line densities. Before World War I, Iowa railroad officials bragged that the Hawkeye State had a depot and agent located no farther than thirteen miles from any point within its borders. In Railroads in the Midwest: An Epic History, renowned historian H. Roger Grant draws on fifty years of research into America's celebrated railroad history to examine what effect railroads had in the heartland and what has happened to them since the early twentieth century.
Jaguar - The Last Classic XJ's
When Jaguar’s XJ range arrived in 1968, it quickly established itself not only as a world-beater but also as the central model in the Jaguar range. Riding high throughout the 1970s, it was nevertheless losing some of its appeal by the time Ford bought the Jaguar company at the end of the next decade. These last three generations of the classic Jaguar XJ saloons closed an era in which Jaguar had symbolised the British approach to luxury motoring. That it no longer reflected what many buyers wanted by the end was a sad reflection of the changing times, but cannot take away from the excellence and desirability of the cars themselves. Today increasingly prized by enthusiast owners, these XJs in so many ways show the marque at its peak, and this book highlights why that is so.
The Railways of Northern England in the 1960s
The Railways of Northern England in the 1960s covers the area from Crewe and Doncaster up to the Scottish border. Specific locations include Birkenhead, Liverpool (Edge Hill), Warrington, Northwich, Manchester (Gorton), Preston, Southport, Morecambe, Isle of Man, Oxenholme, Shap, Whitehaven, Workington, and Carlisle. The Stainmore route over the Pennines is visited with photographs at Barnard Castle, Barras, Belah and Deepdale Viaducts, Bowes, Kirkby Stephen, and Penrith. The Sheffield tram system is seen in 1960, then Wakefield and Leeds, before time is spent at York. We continue via Market Weighton, Bridlington, Filey, Scarborough, Malton, Kirbymoorside, Tadcaster, Alne, Thirsk, Melmerby, and Northallerton. An early morning visit is made to the Catterick Military Railway, then Darlington, Sunderland, Tyne Dock, Gateshead, and Newcastle to conclude at Tweedmouth and Coldstream. Industrial sites are also visited and include Bickershaw, Corkickle Brake, South Kirkby, Peckfield, Seaham, Doxfords, the Bowes Railway, and the Harton Railway. The time period is largely between 1955 and 1967 and although steam predominates, diesel and electric power are represented, even rope-worked inclines. It will appeal to railway enthusiasts, modelers and those interested in local history. Virtually all of the photographs, a mixture of monochrome and color, have never previously been published and are accompanied with extensive and informative commentaries.
Elektrické jednotky řady EM 488.0/460. Historie, vývoj, technika
V létě 2024 se definitivně uzavřela kapitola provozu elektrických jednotek řady EM 488.0/460, známých mezi železničními fanoušky i veřejností pod přezdívkou „panťák“. Kniha „Elektrické jednotky řady EM 488.0/460“ přináší komplexní pohled na historii, techniku a provozní život těchto ikonických souprav, které byly po desetiletí nedílnou součástí příměstské i meziměstské dopravy v Československu a později v Česku a na Slovensku.
Publikace se věnuje nejen technickému popisu elektrických i vložených (nemotorových) vozů, ale také historickému vývoji elektrických jednotek obecně – od prvních pokusů ve 20. letech 20. století po masivní nasazení v poválečném období. Důraz je kladen na vývoj, sériovou výrobu i specifika jednotlivých výrobních sérií.
Čtenář v knize najde přehled provozního nasazení v různých regionech, kapitolu věnovanou nehodám a vyřazování jednotek a samozřejmě i popis jejich postupného zániku a náhrady moderními vozidly. Součástí knihy je detailní tabulka všech vyrobených jednotek, včetně dislokací, data zrušení a případné fyzické likvidace. Publikace je bohatě ilustrována – obsahuje množství dosud nepublikovaných barevných fotografií z provozu i odstavování jednotek a také typové náčrtky elektrického a vloženého vozu.
Tato kniha je nejen poctou „panťákům“, ale i cenným dokumentem pro všechny zájemce o železniční historii a techniku.
Landings in America
Automotive journalist Peter Egan is probably best known for his many years of columns and feature stories about cars and motorcycles in Road & Track and Cycle World magazines, but in the early 1980s he finally gave in to his lifelong fascination with classic airplanes and managed to pursue the third branch of his addiction to romantic modes of travel - namely, flying. While living in Southern California, Peter and his wife Barbara both earned their pilot''s licenses, saved up six weeks'' vacation from their respective jobs, and took off on a seven-thousand-mile trip around the US in their yellow 1945 J-3 Piper Cub. Flying low and slow, they crossed the deserts of the Southwest and sneaked through the Rocky Mountains to visit friends in Texas, then down through the bayou country of Louisiana and around the Gulf to visit Peter''s father in south Florida. From there, they flew up the Atlantic Coast to Kitty Hawk, across the battlefields of the Civil War to the old Piper factory in Pennsylvania, and back to their home state of Wisconsin. The return to California took them across the farmlands of the Midwest and ranches of the Great Plains, with another shot at the dreaded mountain passes of the Rockies. The story is partly travel adventure, with occasional camping under the wing and a survey of the nation''s small towns and budget motels (with the rare surrender to luxury and self-indulgence), but also a memoir of the post-Vietnam era of 1980s America, with personal reflections triggered by the places and names along their route. And always in the background of their trip is the unspoken search for a new place to live, far away from urban sprawl and crowded freeways, a possible rehearsal for someday flying home.
Northern Diesels
In this companion volume to his Northern Electrics: EMUs in the North of England, Martyn Hilbert showcases the huge variety and types of first- and second-generation Diesel Multiple Units that have operated in the North of England, including many items of rolling stock that have passed into history. The period covered runs from the late 1970s to the present day. The photographs have been in taken in a wide range of locations, including North Staffordshire, Cheshire (including Crewe), Merseyside and the Wirral, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Cumbria, Newcastle and the Tyne, the Tees area and Yorkshire. The first generation of DMUs was introduced by British Railways in the mid-1950s as part of the modernisation programme. These were replaced by a second generation of units in the 1980s, many of which are still in service, but are slowly being replaced by new state-of-the-art designs to suit modern-day operations, passenger expectations and environmental considerations. All those who wish to know more about Britain’s railways in the last five decades will find this book of interest.
Auto-moto literatúra je určená pre všetkých nadšencov motorizmu, automobilov a motocyklov. V tejto kategórii nájdete široký výber kníh, ktoré sa zameriavajú na rôzne aspekty áut a motocyklov, ich históriu, technológie, modely, závody a iné súvisiace témy.
V knihách z kategórie Auto, moto sa dozviete viac o svetových automobilových značkách, ako aj o histórii ikonických modelov. Nájdete tu aj knihy o motocykloch, ich rôznych typoch, značkách a športových udalostiach súvisiacich s motocyklovým svetom. Preskúmajte históriu motocyklového dizajnu, výkonu a príbehov legendárnych automobilových a motocyklových pretekárov.
