Tuesday, 8 September 2009

WW2 radio direction-finding transmitters

A scarce and very large (47 inches x 35 inches, 120 cms x 89 cms) German double-sided military intelligence map dating from 1940/41, showing the locations of Britain's wartime radio stations including Navy radio transmitters and Air Force transmitters with direction-finding facilities is for sale at http://ukbooklink.com/ncc2jp

Sunday, 6 September 2009

1912-13 British army airships flight reports

An album containing nine original typescript and manuscript flight reports of the British Army Airships "Gamma" and Delta", based at Farnborough, in 1912 and 1913 has turned up at http://ukbooklink.com/ncc4vn.

These flights were under the command of or crewed by, variously, three of Britain's pioneer aviation and airship pioneers - J.N. Fletcher, Edward M. Maitland, and Clive Maitland Waterlow.

Thursday, 20 August 2009

1920s Mesopotamia/Iraq; Bradford

The UniqueOrRare.com website is listing two items which you're unlikely to ever come across again and which have become available:

A 1920s photograph album containing 175 private photographs of army life in Mesopotamia (modern day Iraq), 1925-1926 including unpublished photographs of Alan Cobham's flight to Australia and Rolls Royce armoured cars and a magnificently illustrated 1913 trade catalogue, with pricing, of gearings, pulleys, clutches, swivelling bearings and similar mechanical devices for the transmission of power issued by Frank Wigglesworth & Company of Shipley, near Bradford, Yorkshire.

Pick up further details at http://ukbooklink.com/xkx6ny

Thursday, 13 August 2009

Get your own online bookshop free for six months

If you're a UK-based bookseller, you can now get your own UK bookselling website free for six months at http://ukbookinfo.com/fwp3et

Friday, 15 May 2009

Scarce 1926 book on road construction in Britain

A privately-printed book on road construction in Britain in the mid-1920s is listed for sale at ukbooklink.com/ncc3wa

Wednesday, 13 May 2009

1944 report on Italian Camproni-Campini aircraft

An exceedingly scarce and important 1945 military intelligence report on the Italian contribution to jet development during the war (the Camproni-Campini aircraft) has been listed for sale at ukbooklink.com/ncc9pn

1944 : Captured Messerschmitt 110

A difficult-to-find original 1944 WWII military intelligence report on a German Messerschmitt 110 night-fighter captured in France has been listed for sale at ukbooklink.com/ncc3gn