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  • A gallery of old timers: 51 pictures of steam wagons, traction engines, fairground rides, ploughing engines, rollers and other old-timers.

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    • Hemel Hempstead, Model & Allied Publications, 1970.
    • 1970
    • 1 Item
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    Text JSC 72-116Offsite
  • The building and running of steam traction engine and roller models [by] H. R. Plastow.

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    • Hardwick, "Lion" Engineering Company, 1971.
    • 1971
    • 1 Item
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    Text JSD 72-1270Offsite
  • Traction engines in review, by Barry J. Finch, with text by Jack Hampshire.

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    • London, Allan, 1971.
    • 1971
    • 1 Item
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    Text JSE 73-680Offsite
  • Reparatur- und Einstelltabellen für Motoren in Schleppern [Unter Mitarbeit von Kurt Gagel.

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    • Würzburg] Vogel-Verlag [1972-74]
    • 1972-1974
    • 2 Items
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    Text JSK 74-45 v. 1Offsite
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    Text JSK 74-45 v. 2Offsite
  • A century of traction engines: being an historical account of the rise and decline of an industry whose benefits to mankind were are are incalculable, by W. J. Hughes.

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    • London, Pan Books Ltd., [1972, c1970]
    • 1972-1970
    • 1 Item
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    Text JSD 74-214Offsite
  • The compleat traction engineman [by] E. E. Kimbell.

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    • London, Allan, 1973.
    • 1973
    • 1 Item
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    Text JSD 74-985Offsite
  • Traction engines past and present.

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    • Newton Abbot, David & Charles [1974]
    • 1974
    • 1 Item
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    Text JSE 75-1607Offsite
  • An illustrated history of traction engines / [by] Peter Wilkes.

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    • Bourne End : Spurbooks, 1974.
    • 1974
    • 1 Item
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    Text JSD 77-298Offsite
  • Pride of the road : the pictorial story of traction engines / [by] Michael R. Lane.

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    • London : New English Library, 1976.
    • 1976
    • 1 Item
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    Text JSG 78-64Offsite
  • Model boilers for road and ploughing engines / John Haining.

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    • Lingfield, Eng. : Oakwood Press, 1974.
    • 1974
    • 1 Item
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    Text JSE 79-1515Offsite
  • The story of the steam plough works : Fowlers of Leeds / by Michael R. Lane ; with a foreword by Isabel A. Pelly.

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    • London : Northgate Pub. Co., 1980.
    • 1980
    • 1 Item
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    Text JSG 81-39Offsite
  • A source book of traction engines / Denis Miller.

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    • London : Ward Lock, 1983.
    • 1983
    • 1 Item
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    Text JSB 88-23Offsite
  • The steam engine builders of Norfolk / Ronald H. Clark.

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    • Sparkford [England] ; Newbury Park, Calif. : Haynes, 1988.
    • 1988
    • 1 Item
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    Text JSF 89-189Offsite
  • Power wagon reference book.

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    • Chicago, Ill. : Power Wagon Pub. Co., 1919-
    • 1919-present
    • 3 Items

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    http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015002952417
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    Text TOL+ (Power wagon reference book) 1919Offsite
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    Text TOL+ (Power wagon reference book) 1920Offsite
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    Text TOL+ (Power wagon reference book) 1923Offsite
  • The Arbroath affair : being an account of the 1959 Steam Engine Inquiry in which a traction engine and a gas works locomotive met together, enjoyed an unusual legal affair and won a resounding victory / Ian N. Fraser.

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    • Arbroath : T. Buncle & Co. Limited, 1961.
    • 1961
    • 1 Item

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    http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433045014374
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    Text D-14 6594Offsite
  • God speed the plow; the coming of steam cultivation to Great Britain.

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    • Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1960.
    • 1960
    • 1 Item
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    Text E-11 1738Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.

  • Mechanical traction in war for road transport, with notes on automobiles generally, by Lieut.-Col. Otfried Layriz ... Tr. by R.B. Marston ...

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    • London, S. Low, Marston and Company; Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Company, 1900.
    • 1900
    • 1 Item
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    Text VWG (Layriz, O. Mechanical traction in war for road transport)Offsite
  • Farm and industrial tractors; a manual for the owner and operator. By D.N. McHardy. Foreword by Charles Crowther.

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    • London, C. Lockwood & son, 1930.
    • 1930
    • 1 Item
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    Text VPK (McHardy, D. N. Farm and industrial tractors)Offsite
  • Farm engines and how to run them; the young engineer's guide... by James H. Stephenson and other expert engineers; with numerous illustrations showing the different parts of a boiler and engine, and nearly every make of traction engine, with a brief description of the distinctive points in each make.

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    • Chicago, F. J. Drake & Co. [1903]
    • 1903
    • 1 Item
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    Text VPK (Stephenson, J. H. Farm engines, and how to run them)Offsite
  • The tractor and its influence upon the agricultural implement industry, by Barton W. Currie ...

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    • Philadelphia, The Curtis Publishing Company, 1916.
    • 1916-
    • 1 Item
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    Text VPK (Currie, B. W. Tractor and its influence)Offsite
  • Power and the plow, by L. W. Ellis and Edward A. Rumely.

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    • Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Page & Company, 1911.
    • 1911
    • 1 Item
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    Text VPK (Ellis, L. W. Power and the plow)Offsite
  • Farming by motor. All about farm tractors and motor ploughing; illustrated examples of the work that can be done with motor tractors and a guide to the selection of machinery for motor tillage. Produced by "The motor" and "The commercial motor."

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    • London, Temple Press, Limited [1917?]
    • 1917
    • 1 Item
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    Text VPK (Farming by motor)Offsite
  • The need for, analysis of the demand (domestic and foreign) and potential market for farm tractors.

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    • New York, Internat. Machine & Tool Corporation of Delaware [1917?]
    • 1917
  • The Caterpillar "45" tractor / the Holt Mfg. Co., incorporated.

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    • Stockton, Cal., Peoria, Ill. : The Company, [c1915]
    • 1915
  • Instructions for starting and operating Avery "light-weight" gas and oil tractors.

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    • Peoria, Ill., 1916.
    • 1916
  • Case tractor manual, instructions on operation and care of the Case 12-20 tractor.

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    • Racine, Wis., J.I. Case Threshing Machine Co. [c1926]
    • 1926
  • Studies in power farming.

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    • Oxford : The Agricultural Economics Research Institute, 1936.
    • 1936
  • The farm tractor handbook ... by George Sherwood.

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    • London, Iliffe & Sons, Ltd. [1918]
    • 1918
    • 1 Item
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    Text VPK (Sherwood, G. Farm tractor handbook)Offsite
  • Tractor versus U-boat, written by D.N. McHardy ...

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    • [Reading, Eng., Power Farmer] Distributed by W.H. Allen & Co. Ltd. [1943]
    • 1943
  • Vergleichende untersuchungen über den antrieb von dreschmanchinen durch dampflokomobilen, verbrennungsmotoren und elektromotoren 1913/14, ausgeführt im auftrage der Deutschen landwirtschafts-gesellschaft und des Württ. elektrotechnischen vereins, von Prof. Dr. Holldack ...

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    • Berlin, P. Parey, 1916.
    • 1916
  • The economy of steam power on common roads ... with its history and practice in Great Britain, by Charles Frederic T. Young ... and its progress in the United States by Alex. L. Holley ... and J. K. Fisher.

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    • London, Atchley & co. [1861]
    • 1861
    • 2 Items
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    Text (Parsons) VDCP (Young, C. F. T. Economy of steam power on common roads)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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    Text TON (Young, C. F. T. Economy of steam power on common roads)Offsite
  • Farm gas engines and tractors, by Fred R. Jones ...

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    • New York, London, McGraw-Hill Book Company, inc., 1938.
    • 1938
    • 1 Item
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    Text VFM (Jones, F. R. Farm gas engines and tractors. 1938)Offsite
  • Traction engines and steam vehicles in pictures.

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    • New York, A. M. Kelley [1969]
    • 1969
    • 1 Item
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    Text VFK (Beaumont, A. Traction engines and steam vehicles in pictures)Offsite
  • Steam traction engineering : a book for operating engineers / by S. R. Eighinger and Mancius Smedes Hutton. --

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    • New York : D. Appleton, 1916.
    • 1916
    • 1 Item

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    http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433066422084
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    Text VFK (Eighinger, S. Steam traction engineering)Offsite
  • A rally of traction engines [by] Barry J. Finch.

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    • Shepperton; Allan, 1969.
    • 1969
    • 1 Item
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    Text VFK (Finch, B. J. Rally of traction engines)Offsite
  • History and development of steam locomotion on common roads, by William Fletcher.

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    • London, New York [etc.] E. & F. N. Spon, 1891.
    • 1891
    • 1 Item
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    Text VFK (Fletcher, W. History and development of steam locomotion)Offsite
  • I worked with traction engines.

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    • Falmouth (Cornwall), J. H. Lake & Co., 1967.
    • 1967
    • 1 Item
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    Text VFK (Hampshire, J. I worked with traction engines)Offsite
  • Practical hand book of gas, oil and steam engines, stationary, marine, traction, gas burners, oil burners, etc., farm, traction, automobile, locomotive ; a simple, practical and comprehensive book on the construction, operation and repair of all kinds of engines. Dealing with the various parts in detail and the various types of engines and also the use of different kinds of fuel. By John B. Rathbun...

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    • Chicago, Charles C. Thompson co., 1913.
    • 1913
    • 1 Item
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    Text VFM (Rathbun, J. B. Practical hand book of gas, oil and steam engines)Offsite
  • Farm engines and how to run them; the young engineer's guide ... with a chapter on water supply systems in the farm home, the science of successful threshing, by James H. Stephenson ... with numerous illustrations ...

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    • Chicago, F.J. Drake & Co. [c1918]
    • 1918
    • 1 Item
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    Text VFM (Stevenson, J. H. Farm engines and how to run them)Offsite
  • Traction farming and traction engineering, gasoline--alcohol--kerosene; a practical hand-book for the owners and operators of gas and oil engines on the farm ... by James H. Stephenson ...

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    • Chicago, F.J. Drake & Co. [c1913]
    • 1913
    • 1 Item

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    http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433066408687
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    Text VFM (Stephenson, J. H. Traction farming and traction engineering)Offsite
  • Farm tractors, by Archie A. Stone.

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    • New York, J. Wiley & sons, inc.; London, Chapman & Hall, limited, 1932.
    • 1932
    • 1 Item
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    Text VFM (Stone, A. A. Farm tractors)Offsite
  • Chronicles of a country works, being a history of Messrs. Charles Burrel & Sons, Ltd. of Thetford, the famous traction engine builders.

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    • London, Marshall [1952]
    • 1952
    • 1 Item
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    Text TNK (Burrell)(Clark, R. H. Chronicles of a country works)Offsite
  • Gasoline tractors. A practical presentation of tractor problems and their soution, by Charles B. Haywood ...

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    • Chicago, Amrican Technical Society, 1920.
    • 1920
    • 1 Item

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    http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433019101512
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    Text TON (Hayward, C. B. Gasoline tractors)Offsite
  • A century of traction engines, being an historical account of the rise and decline of an industry whose benefits to mankind were and are incalculable.

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    • London, P. Marshall, 1959.
    • 1959
    • 1 Item
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    Text TON (Hughes, W. J. Century of traction engines)Offsite
  • Traction engines worth modelling.

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    • London, P. Marshall [1950]
    • 1950
    • 1 Item
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    Text TON (Hughes, W. J. Traction engines worth modelling)Offsite
  • Tractor engines, by Edward F. Hallock, over 140 illustrations, a complete course of lessons on the construction and economical operation of the tractor engine; adjustments and repairs made easy; and how to acquire [!] maximum efficiency.

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    • Cincinnati : American automobile digest, 1920.
    • 1920
    • 1 Item
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    Text TON (Hallock, E. F. Tractor engines)Offsite
  • Gasoline tractors. A practical presentation of tractor problems and their solution, by Charles B. Hayward.

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    • Chicago, American technical society, 1919.
    • 1919
    • 1 Item

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    http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433019101504
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    Text 3-TON (Hayward, C. B. Gasoline tractors)Offsite
  • Motor vehicles and tractors; a textbook for students and a handbook for engineers, by P. M. Heldt.

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    • Nyack, N.Y., P. M. Heldt [c1929]
    • 1929
    • 1 Item
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    Text TON (Heldt, P. M. Motor vehicles and tractors)Offsite
  • Care and operation of the "caterpillar" 45 tractor.

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    • Stockton, Cal., Peoria, Ill., The Holt manufacturing company, incorporated, c1917.
    • 1917
    • 1 Item
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    Text TON (Holt manufacturing company, incorporated. Care and operation of the "caterpillar" 75 tractor)Offsite
  • Steam road vehichles; the underlying elements of theory and practice in the use of the steam waggon, by L.M. Meyrick-Jones ...

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    • London, Iliffe & Sons, Ltd. [1917?]
    • 1917
    • 2 Items
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    Text 3-TON (Meyrick-Jones, L. M. Steam road vehichles)Offsite
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