Motor Car Maintenance Motor Repair and Overhauling : Vol V : Garage Equipment, Organisation, Management, Salesmanshp, Legal ( A Comprehensive, Practical and Authoritative Guide for the Owner-Driver, Mechanic and Garage Proprietor )
by CLARKE, GEORGE T
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- Hardcover
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London, London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Home Library Book Company. Hardback with Dustwrapper. Good+/Poor. Brown marbled boards, gilt title to spine. 280pp. Marbled endpapers. Volume 5 deals with the business side of garage work - topics such as 'Typical layouts of Modern Garages and Service Depots', modern trends in garges, equipment etc. Includes fold-out specimens of petrol check sheet and confirmation of instrutions sheet - both in very good unfilled-in condition. No date but illustration of an example of a check sheet is filled in with the date 1929. Fascinating piece of motoring history. Plain red dw ( may or may not have been issued with book) bumped and frayed with small pieces missing at ends of spine. This has protected the book itself however - clean tight and good+
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- Ripping Yarns
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- 5000183
- Title
- Motor Car Maintenance Motor Repair and Overhauling : Vol V : Garage Equipment, Organisation, Management, Salesmanshp, Legal ( A Comprehensive, Practical and Authoritative Guide for the Owner-Driver, Mechanic and Garage Proprietor )
- Author
- CLARKE, GEORGE T
- Format/Binding
- Hardback with Dustwrapper
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Poor
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Home Library Book Company
- Place of Publication
- London
- Keywords
- CARS, MOTORING, EARLY MOTORING
- Bookseller catalogs
- Engineering & Technology;
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- Dustwrapper
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- Gilt
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