Science & Technology

The First Hundred Years, numerous b&w illustrations from photographs, engravings, drawings, adverts and portraits, maps, genealogical table, bibliographical notes, index, 256 pp, brown boards in d/w, slight dent to top of rear board, otherwise in very good condition, Alan Sutton (Gloucester) 1979

21.3 x 13.3 cm, 580g, ISBN 0 90438 723 2

Primarily known nowadays as makers of diesel engines, the company started out as makers of agricultural machinery. During the Second World War the company built small trucks and tractors for moving aircraft, as well as generators powering searchlights and later radar stations. See the description below from the dustwrapper flap.

Long out of print, and now very scarce.