Reminiscences as office boy and apprentice at Swindon Railway Works, 1944-1951 : the sights, sounds, smells, personalities, and jobs remembered with nostalgia and affection from steam days / Ken Gibbs
by Gibbs, Ken
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0860933806
- ISBN 13
- 9780860933809
- Seller
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Galway, Ireland
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About This Item
Poole, Dorset : Oxford Pub. Co., 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 192p.,[16]p. of plates : ill., facsims.,plans ; 23cm. Subjects; Industries England Swindon History. Locomotive works England Swindon (Wiltshire) Design and construction History. Railroad repair shops England Swindon. Railroad repair shops England Swindon (Wiltshire).
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- Bookseller
- MW Books Ltd. (IE)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 361093
- Title
- Reminiscences as office boy and apprentice at Swindon Railway Works, 1944-1951 : the sights, sounds, smells, personalities, and jobs remembered with nostalgia and affection from steam days / Ken Gibbs
- Author
- Gibbs, Ken
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0860933806
- ISBN 13
- 9780860933809
- Publisher
- Poole, Dorset : Oxford Pub. Co.
- Place of Publication
- Poole
- Date Published
- 1986
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