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THE PAKENHAM ARNOLDA rare eight-day mantel chronometer By John Roger Arnold, London, No. 619, circa 1830In a Derbyshire 'Ashford' marble case attributed to John MaweWith gilt engine-turned bezel, beneath an associated glazed push-on bezel, with lacquered brass drum-shaped case; the 3¾in. white enamel dial signed 'Arnold London' and with eight-day power reserve indicatot, seconds subsidiary, and numbered 619, with gold Breguet hour and minute hands, the eight-day chain fusée movement signed 'Jno. Arnold / London / Invt. Et Fecit No 619 ', with Harrison's maintaining power, within semi-elliptical plates, the escapement carriage with blued steel helical spring, J. R. Arnold's U + I bi-metallic balance with diamond endpiece and Earnshaw spring detent escapement, a circular countersunk recess to the plate with blank locating holes and two screw-holes, blued steel screws; within a black marble case with a turned drum-shaped surround, on block foot, raised on a stepped plinth, the front diamond engraved with a Bacchic figure pouring wine, the sides each engraved with a griffin, (1 key)37cm high overall. IllustratedPROVENANCE, BY REPUTE:Possibly, Admiral Sir Thomas Pakenham, GCB (1757-1836)More likely, his son, Vice Admiral John Pakenham (1790-1876)Thence by descent through the Pakenham family to the current vendor.John Roger Arnold (1769-1843), the son of John Arnold, learnt his craft in his father's business and also working for Abraham-Louis Breguet in Paris. The Arnolds were in business as 'Arnold & Son' from 1787 until the father's death in 1799. John Roger continued with the business and entered into partnership in 1830 with Edward John Dent, an agreement which lasted 10 years. In Vaudrey Mercer's John Arnold & Son, London 1972, he mentions that No. 620 'would appear to be the end of this series up to the year 1830' (the start of the Arnold & Dent partnership). Plate 174 shows the third version of the J. R. Arnold balance, which this chronometer has. Designed with a non-ferrous bi-metallic bar, formed from silver and platinum, and probably used experimentally by the partnership.In the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers' Library (held in the Guildhall Library) is a household financial daybook from the Arnolds covering the period 1796 - October 1830. October 1830 is significant as the month in which the Arnold & Dent partnership was formally started. Intriguingly, Arnold's penned entry for 7 January 1830 in the account book is 'Mawe for marble cases'. It was probably not the first transaction between these two businesses, especially taking into account their proximity to each other in the Strand. Perhaps it was Mawe who would have supplied Arnold with his jewels for pallets, endpieces and balances? It is worth noting here, Arnold's use of the fine engine-turned bezel, which recalls his Paris training, as he would have seen such decoration incorporated there. John Mawe was the proprietor of the renowned mineral shop at 149 Strand, just a short walk from the Arnolds at 84 Strand. Established in 1811, Mawe had travelled the world and his shop would have been well-known to Arnold. Mawe (b. 1764 Derby) was apprenticed to the Derby mason Richard Brown (d. 1816) and married his daughter Sarah in 1794. They established a retail business near Covent Garden at the end of the 18th century called Brown & Mawe, selling objects created from Derbyshire marble and minerals, including 'Blue John', from the factory in Derby. The pedestal base is finely engraved, most probably with a diamond and would suggest Anne Rayner (b.1802-1890) as the artist. In her 1876 work English Female Artists, Ellen Crayton recorded that "Mrs Rayner was distinguished in early life for her beautiful engravings on black marble". Her work is rare, examples can be seen at the Buxton Art Gallery, as well as Chatsworth.Mawe died in 1829, and the Strand business was continued by his wife, who held the official title of 'Mineralogist to the Queen'. Their apprentice, James Tennant (d. 1881), continued with the business after her retirement during which time he oversaw the cutting of the Koh-i-Noor for the Great Exhibition.No doubt the Pakenham Admirals would have been well aware of Arnold's reputation and would have seen his chronometers used under their commands. It would have been second-nature to ask Mr. Arnold for a version that could be used as a mantel timepiece, as this eight-day chronometer does not appear to have been mounted in gimbals and boxed.In Staeger's book he lists 619 and gives a reference to a sale at Christie's as '11/1978'. There was no Arnold chronometer in this sale (Christie's King Street 22 November 1978).COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:Rupert T. Gould, The Marine Chronometer, London, 1973Vaudrey Mercer, John Arnold & Son, Chronometer Makers, 1762-1843, London 1972 Hans Staeger, 100 Jahre Präzisionsuhren von John Arnold bis Arnold & Frodsham 1763-1862, Stuttgart, 1997Peak District Mines Historical Society, Vol. 11, Number 6, Winter 1992
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A late Victorian ivory tower thermometer and inset compassBy T. Straight, London, circa 1890The compass scale below a convex glass, with pierced surround, on an engine-turned columnar support with thermometer scale on turned base, mounted on an ebonised plinth, lacking dome15cm high. IllustratedProbably Thomas Straight, 26 Bartlett Buildings, Strand, London.
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A Viennese mahogany and boxwood outlined wall regulator 'Dachluhr'By Peter Peuker, Wien, circa 1845The six-glazed panel case with an architectural pediment, enclosing the 7 1/4in. silvered dial with engine-turned bezel, signed to the central reserve 'PETER PEUKER / IN WIEN', with finely cut blued steel hands, the movement with tapered plates, deadbeat escapement, Harrison's maintaining power and steel rod brass bob pendulum and brass cased weight, (1 pendulum, 1 weight).86.5cm high overall. Illustrated
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A rare and unusual pyramidical brass skeleton timepiece of eighteen-day durationBy John Pace, Bury St. Edmunds, No. 253, circa 1855The cast frame of good gauge, with chamfered edges on scrolled feet, the movement with going barrel and three wheels to the escape wheel, each of five or six crossings, with Graham's deadbeat escapement, inset jewelled pallets, surmounted by an arched bridge with fine knurled screw adjustment for regulating to the spring suspension, steel and brass halberd-shaped pendulum, the pierced and engine-turned gilt dial with Arabic numerals, blued steel spade hands, linked by a fine thread at the back to drive the hands, on an oval tapering base, signed 'John Pace BURY St. EDMUNDS No. 253', raised on a velvet plinth and rosewood stand, under a glass dome, (1 pendulum, 1 key).The timepiece 33cm high; 43cm high overall. IllustratedJohn Pace (d. 1867) lived and worked in Bury St. Edmunds. His workshop was at 19 Abbeygate Street. He exhibited a virtually identical skeleton timepiece, of three-month duration, at the 1851 Great Exhibition.See Antiquarian Horology, No. 1, Vol. 34, March 2013, for an article on the Pace family of Quaker clockmakers, by David Edmund Pace.This clock is illustrated in Derek Roberts' Skeleton Clocks, Britain 1800-1914, Antique Collectors Club, 1996, fig. 3/15a, p. 97, and other Pace clocks are discussed p. 89-97.
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A French ormolu-mounted mahogany Second Empire mantel clockIn the Neo-Classical style, by Laine, Paris, circa 1855The case in the form of a portico, the rectangular pediment with a stepped edge, raised on four columns, each with a gilt engine-turned capital and base, on a stepped conforming plinth, on bun feet, the convex gilt dial signed 'LAINE A PARIS' above the VI, centred with two raised winged lions, within a beaded surround, the twin train movement with outside countwheel strike on a bell, and bi-metallic grid-iron pendulum, cast with a bird-mounted lyre support, above a foliate cast bob, (1 pendulum, 1 key).54.5cm high. Illustrated
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A large scale model of a Charles Burrell & Son traction engine, early 20th century, burgundy livery with applied plaque 'The Burrell Road Locomotive', coal fired with forward and reverse gears, chain driven steering from front axle, nine inch fly wheel, single piston and boiler over four spoked wheels, 95cm wide, 59cm high. Illustrated
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WHOSE SURVIVORS WERE SAVED BY GRACE DARLING, 7TH SEPTEMBER, 1838, cast in brass, the domed whistle threaded to steam pipe with outlet under, now mounted to a wooden display board for wall hanging, the whistle – 12¼in. (31cm.) highProvenance: Recovered and identified by recreational divers in 1978 and allocated Droit Number 229/12 by the Receiver of Wreck in July 2014. A full account accompanies the lot.Built in Dundee in 1836 and measured at 192 tons burthen, she was 132 feet in length with a 20 foot beam and was paddle-powered from a 190hp. 2-cylinder engine. On 5th September 1838 Forfarshire left Hull, bound for Dundee, carrying both passengers and freight. Early the next morning the starboard boiler sprang a leak and the same afternoon the engines gave out completely in deteriorating weather. Instead of putting into port for repairs, Captain Humble made sail and stubbornly maintained his course until, at about 4 o'clock the following day, the ship ran aground amongst the Farne Islands and broke her back. The stern section sank immediately taking most of the passengers and six crew. The forepart with thirteen passengers lodged precariously on a rock where, just before 5.00am on the 7th September, Grace Darling finally spotted them. It was a further two hours before she and her father saw any survivors and, as he made ready to launch a boat, William Darling realised that he could not manage the task alone. Looking to Grace for assistance, she did not hesitate and the two of them made the perilous journey out to the Big Harcar Rock and rescued a woman, an injured man and three others. Once back at the Longstone lighthouse, Grace and her mother tended the distraught woman and injured man whilst her father and two of the rescued men returned to the wreck for the second time. News of the Darlings' exploits soon became known and before long Grace was the toast of the nation. The Darlings, and particularly Grace, were showered with gifts as well as the medals of various lifesaving institutions but, sadly, Grace did not live to enjoy her fame for long and died of tuberculosis in October 1842 aged just 27.
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The P.S. 'Marquis of Bute'Oil on canvas laid down on board15½ x 30¾in. (39.5 x 78cm.)Built by Barclay, Curle & Co. of Whiteinch in 1868, the Marquis of Bute was a finely proportioned passenger steamer typical of the many which competed for commuter and pleasure traffic around Glasgow. Registered at 173 tons she was 196.6 feet in length and was powered by a single diagonal engine of 85h.p. Owned and run by A. & T. McLean, she entered service on the Glasgow-Rothesay run where she remained until 1889. Sold several times after this date, she ran railway connected services between Princes Pier and Fairlie for the Glasgow & South Western Railway 1891-1904 during which she had an aft deck saloon added. Thereafter she was used for excursions from Preston and was finally broken up in 1908 after forty years' service.
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modelled by G. Cheikhet from his own detailed researches the bespoke fibreglass hull with planked deck and bulwarks, gold-plated armament and fittings including decorated bow and stern, anchors on brackets, a finely-realised 10in. muzzle-loading rifled Armstrong gun mounted in bow, deck rings, winches, coal shute covers, deck lights, capstan, ventilators, helm with heat shield, bilge pump, funnel with whistle, engine room light surrounded by shell cases, companionways, water casks and other details, mounted on two turned gilt pedestals within glazed wooden case, the model – 13 x 31in. (33. x 79cm.) Originally developed as coastal defence vessels, flatirons were unusual for the time in having no rigged 'back-up' to their coal-fired engines. Somewhat ungainly in appearance, their sole armament was a single 10in. muzzle-loading rifled gun by Armstrong located in the bow. Whilst they were slow, cumbersome, and not considered a great success, about thirty were made over three decades and they generally ended up in harbour service or as tenders. Griper was one of four in this class built by Pembroke Dockyard, displaced 254 tons, measured 85ft x 26ft and her 2 cylinder reciprocating engine pushed her along at a stately 8½ knots. Sold in 1923 she was renamed Flora before changing hands - and continents in 1933, and spent her remaining years as Afrikander, being broken up at Cape Town in 1951.
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carved and hollowed from the solid with deck and back board, finished in polychrome, the port side revealing the frames and starboard as completed with galleries with pierced railings, 'glazed' windows, waste pipe and rudder top – 9¼ x 9 x 9½in. (23.5 x 22.8 x 24cm.)Built at Pembroke Dock and converted for screw propulsion whilst still on the stocks, she was launched on 14th September 1852, the day of the Duke of Wellington's death, and thus renamed in his honour two weeks later. A splendid 1st Rate measured at 3,759 tons (5,829 tons displacement), she was 240 feet in length with a 60 foot beam and 131 mounted guns of varying calibre, including 30-8in. on her gundeck and 30-32 pdrs on each of her other two decks and incorporated the new-but-unpopular rounded stern represented by this model. For her auxiliary power, she was fitted with a 700nhp. engine by Napier – removed from the iron-screw frigate Simoom when she was converted into a troopship in April 1852 – which, on her trials in April 1853, gave her a very satisfactory cruising speed of 10.15 knots. Sent to the Baltic as flagship to Admiral Sir Charles Napier's fleet for the campaign against the Russians in 1854-55, she was widely admired both for her sailing as well as her steaming qualities, although her sea-going career proved a short one, apparently, due to the age of her secondhand machinery and the indecent haste of her conversion to steam as she approached completion. After a brief spell in the Mediterranean as Second Flagship in 1856, she came home to be paid off and was then placed in reserve until 1863 when she became a receiving ship at Portsmouth. This last role proved a lengthy one and, for nearly forty years, she remained a familiar sight at her permanent mooring in the harbour there until she was sold in 1902 and finally broken up in 1909.Charles Miller Ltd is grateful to Prof. Andrew Lambert, Kings College London, for his assistance with this lot.
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BUILT BY MITSUBISHI DOCKYARD AND ENGINE WORKS, NAGASAKI, CIRCA 1910 AND BELIEVED TO BE THE ONLY SURVIVING PRE-1945 EXAMPLE, the laminated and carved hull finished in lacquer with bilge keels, rudder, gilt propellers and portholes, lowered and moored companionway, lined decks and hatch covers, with fittings including anchor crane and winch, capstans, ventilators, bitts, rigged derrits, white painted superstructure with bridge with search lamp over, carved and covered lifeboats in davits, stayed funnels, with safety value, extension pipe and funnel, raked masts with standing rigging and ladders, wood capped deck rails, engine room lights, multiple fire buckets, mushroom ventilators, water buckets, emergency helms, telegraphs and binnacle and much other fine detailing, mounted on four turned baluster supports to painted display base with dual ivorine builder's plates in Japanese and English (restoration and some replaced parts) – 44 x 144in. (112 x 366cm.) together with a folder of data and letters from Mitsubishi regarding history etc.; and including a contemporary advertising brochure (2)Provenance: Brussels World's Fair, 1910 (Japanese Pavillion); Museum of Human Knowledge, Brussels, 1910-closure; Private owner-1997; 1997-date Private Collector, BelgiumLaunched on the 18th February 1911 with her maiden voyage on August 26th that year, Shinyo Maru was the third and last of a class of crack turbine liners built between 1908-10 for the Toyo Kisen Line which was competing strongly for trans-Pacific traffic against the Pacific Mail Steamship Company and the Occidental and Oriental Steamship Company. Measuring 575ft with a breadth of 63ft. she displaced nearly 22,000 tons and her triple screws gave her a brisk speed of 21 knots. The company went so far as to state in their own literature that The three steamships undoubtedly represent, on the Pacific, the high standard maintained by the "Mauretania" and the "Lusitania" on the Atlantic. Luxuriously appointed throughout to top Western specifications, they were elegantly furnished with Oriental-style Western furniture and decor and could accommodate 210 First; 57 Second and 754 Third Class passengers. Plying a regular route between Hong Kong and San Francisco, in 1926 the Toyo Line was taken over by Nippon Yusen and from 1932 she was laid up, eventually broken up in 1936. This model is a scarce survivor - modelled in the English style, there are several distinctly Japanese elements - such as the lacquered hull and rudder, and the multiple chain stays applied to the funnels. Having been displayed at the World's Fair in Brussels in 1910, it seems that it was donated to a local museum. As a consequence it survived the atomic bomb that devastated Nagasaki in 1945 and which incinerated every other Mitsubishi model.This model will be available for viewing at Imperial Road
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A 14½IN. RADIUS VERNIER SEXTANT BY JESSE RAMSDEN, LONDON, CIRCA 1772, AND PROBABLY USED DURING CAPTAIN COOK'S SECOND AND THIRD VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY constructed in brass, signed on the lower cross bar Ramsden London, scale divided to 130º direct to arc, vernier inscribed G. Vancouver, braced index arm, index mirror with Maskelyne flap, sighting tube, four shades, secondary mirror on rear-mounted adjusting lever, wooden handle and brass pin feet (missing secondary mirror and part of sighting tube) – 17 x 17in. (43 x 43cm.) overallProvenance: Acquired unidentified 2005 from the estate of a retired R.N. officer in DevonGeorge Vancouver (1757-1798) joined the Royal Navy as a 'young gentleman' in 1771 and served as a midshipman on Captain Cook's second and third Voyages of Discovery (1772-75; 1776-79) during which he is recorded as using a Ramsden sextant. Promoted Lieutenant upon his return in 1780, he served on several foreign tours thereafter and proved adept at hydrographic survey work. Latterly given his own command he was sent on his own 'voyage of discovery' in command of the Discovery (1791-95) where he produced some of the most significant and accurate surveys of the Pacific and North West coast of America. Like Cook, he was sent off with a selection of instruments to test including no less than twelve sextants by various makers including Ramsden, Adams, Dollond, Troughton and Gilbert and which he reported agreed exceedingly well together upon his return. In Canada, Vancouver Island and the city of Vancouver are named after him, as are Vancouver, Washington, in the United States; Mount Vancouver on the Yukon/Alaska border; and New Zealand's sixth highest mountain. His final promotion was to Captain in August 1794 however, despite his impressive achievements, his work was never fully recognised in his own time and he died unmarried at Petersham, Surrey, on the 18th May 1798, his grave marked by a plain stone.Ramsden's Sextant for Vancouver, It seems Vancouver was not entirely satisfied with this instrument's error and wrote a stiff enough letter of complaint that Ramsden - who brooked very little criticism - responded with a robust defence of it to the Board of Longitude, claiming the error was no more than a ¼ of a minute of arc having re-tested it on Vancouver's return. As a midshipman on Cook's Second and Third voyages, he would certainly have taken many of the measurements recorded and possibly used them in conjunction with the trial 'sea clocks' sent by John Harrison to determine their location - an error of just 1 minute of arc equates to two nautical miles which would have to be compensated for. It would have been produced on Ramsden's first circular dividing engine of 1768 which, whilst representing a great leap forward in scale division, he himself found wanting mainly for ease of usage, and he had completed new updated engine in 1774, selling the first engine to a French collector. The instruments he would have sent for testing with Vancouver would have had smaller radii and therefore frames as this second engine could divide accurately and to a finer degree. The instrument offered here conforms closely to the example held by the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, believed to have been taken by Cook on his Third Voyage, item number NAV1236. , Literature: McConnell, A: Jess Ramsden (1735-1800) London's Leading Scientific Instrument Maker, Ashgate, 2007.
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A Victorian silver spirally-fluted cylindrical scent bottle by Sampson Mordan, London, 1886, complete with interior glass stopper, gilt interior to cover, marks inside cover overstriking design registration, 5 cm. long; a small silver engine-turned toothpick, Birmingham, 1977; and a late Victorian mother-of-pearl handled folding fruit knife with silver blade, by George Howson for Harrison Brothers & Howson, Sheffield, 1896 (3).Slight wear to marks on base of scent bottle, there are some cracks inside the glass liner of scent bottle. Slider on toothpick a little loose.
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Two engine-turned silver cigarette cases, Birmingham 1925/31, to/w five George III fiddle and thread egg-spoons with gilt bowls, Eley & Fearn, London 1819, a cased pair of silver cauldron salts, Sheffield 1971, three other small spoons and a Victorian penknife with silver blade, Birmingham 1886 Condition Report 13oz weighable silver (not including knife)
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Invicta 6 Cylinder. A c1930 Instruction Book, 88pp bound in a dark blue buckram cover with silver tooling, free end papers, tyre, fuel and engine record sheets at the rear, some with pencil manuscript. The rear pocket with a folded wiring diagram for the 'A' Series Chassis, and a multi-fold Lubrication Chart. The binding is tight, the covers a little rubbed, the first pages with some grease marks, but basically sound (1)
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Delage D8. A late 1930s sales brochure featuring the Normal, Sports and Long Chassis cars, with specifications in English, details of component parts, pictures of the engine, interiors and chassis profile. At the rear are placed 7 full-page semi-three-quarter images of different coachbuilding styles. The cream cover held together with a cord tie, the edges of the cover and style cards a little soiled, otherwise good (1)
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Th. Schneider 2-litre. A circa 1930 Instruction Book for the 12.8hp car. 10pp with a fold-out chassis plan at the rear, engine and lubrication diagrams. Issued by the London concessionaires, possibly after production of the model ceased. With a blue buckram hard cover with gilt titles, good clean condition (1)
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1903 - The Lanchester Motor and Carriage. Offered in two volumes; 'Descriptive Manual' dated January 1903 and 'Driving Manual' of a similar period. Book One having 73pp and book two starting at page 73 and continuing to 197. Full of good images of component parts, chassis layout, engine, controls, wheels, steering and the like. Manual II explaining the controls, driving skills, maintenance and tools available. Matched black bindings with gilt titles. The title page and front end-paper missing from Manual I, both books have seen 'use', but are fundamentally sound (2)
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1935 Rolls-Royce 40-50hp Phantom II. A large 8vo brochure, having a grey cord-tied figured-card cover. 34pp with six tipped-in colour prints of body styles: Touring Saloon, Limousine, Landaulette and Sedanca, with full descriptions, specifications, detailed line drawings, engine views, component parts, etcetera. There are also sepia images of the London showrooms and interior views. In excellent condition, save for a little creasing to the cover edges. Original cord intact (1)
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1911 A. W. Wall - Birmingham. Arthur William Wall, famous for the Wall-Auto-Wheel, yet this very rare 4pp and cover brochure features the 'All Weather' open frame motorised bicycle with either 4 or 5/6hp engines, together with an 'All Weather' Tricycle operated by the same ROC engine. In excellent, unused condition with a figured green card cover (1)
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1938 Alvis 4.3. A brochure issued Sept 1938 for this luxury sports car. Frontispiece being a full-colour artwork of an open 4-seater at speed. Photographic illustrations of engine, ghosted chassis across two pages, and six of engine parts. 12pp printed in black and gold on thick paper with end-papers and hardback binding in red with gold embossing. A wallet at the rear of contains a full set of artwork coachwork plates; sports-saloon 4-door, DHC, Vanden Plas pillarless saloon and the special short chassis open tourer with cutaway doors and fold-flat screen. 9 1/2 x 11 1/2-inches. Together with an Alvis issued road test in card covers. Both in good condition, some pencil notations (2)
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1936 Alvis Speed Twenty, a 16pp brochure issued in January, with full colour artwork tipped-in plates of a saloon, DHC, sports 4-seater with fold-flat screen, side-mounts, cutaway doors and massive headlamps. Beneath each plate is a dimensioned seating plan and elevation. Also included are full page artwork line drawings of chassis and engine and four other line drawings of engine and gearbox, printed black on cream, plus thick card covers and printed silver and black on deep cream sheets.10 x 14 1/4-inches. With a creased corner, and a rubber stamp on the front cover (1)
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Rolls-Royce & Bentley. A set of three books by Peter Pugh: 'The First 40 Years', 'The Power Behind the Jets' and a 'Family of Engines', in excellent condition with their DJs; Rolls-Royce and Bentley by Klaus Robfeldt, 1991 1st ed, with specifications and production data, retaining its slipcase; Twenty Silver Ghosts by Brindle (two copies); Magic of the Name by Harold Nockolds, 1945 1st ed with its DJ; other Bentley titles; and three books by Edward Butler, Transmission Gears 1917, Internal Combustion Engine 1912, and Carburettors 1909, all 1st eds (a quantity)
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The High-Speed Internal Combustion Engine by Harry R. Ricardo, revised by H. S. Glyde, 3rd ed, reprint, 1945. A small 4to hardback copy of this classic work, black cloth covers (a little creased, rubbed and marked) with gilt lettering to the spine, pp (viii), 434, 270 text figures (some folding), fore-edge to the pages marked, but otherwise clean and sound internally (1)
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1928 Bentley 4 1/2-Litre. A rare large 8vo deluxe brochure. Numbered 24 and issued in April 1928, This is the first issued brochure for the model, with 16pp and a black faux leather effect card cover with a gilt label, the editorial and title page with coloured decoration and black text. There are well-defined images of the engine, chassis, Sporting Four-Seater, Weymann Saloon, Two-Seater and Single Coup‚, with specifications and prices. The original cotton tied spine is intact, the cover a little rubbed, there is just a little discoloration on the first fly page, and a little paper loss to one corner, otherwise in very good order (1)
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1928 Bentley Six & Half Litre. A large format brochure numbered No 27 and dated October 1928. With 16pp, the catalogue is without its cover, but the editorial is intact, to include the title page. With yellow tinted vignettes of chassis and components, larger profile images of the engine and chassis, together with full specifications, description of the dual ignition system, dimensions for the coachbuilder and full accounts of the braking, lubrication and OHC. This document has been 'enjoyed' over the years, with some creasing to the fore-edge, a black taped spine, and a dealership rubber stamp in various places (1)
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c1934 Lagonda Brochure. A 20pp illustrated linear format publication featuring the 16/80hp Tourer and Saloon with the Special Six 'S' Chassis specification; the 3-litre Tourer and Saloon; 3 1/2-Litre Tourer and Saloon; the 4 1/2-litre Tourer and Saloon, the 'Rapide and Gurney Nutting Saloon, together with dimensions and performance data. Staples a little rusty, some marks to the cover, but otherwise in good fettle. Also, a similar sized, 'An Evaluation of Lagonda', a booklet describing and illustrating WWII work, list of contracts and a monochrome picture of the new 2 1/2-litre engine and W. O. Bentley in attendance (2)
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1921 Bentley Three Litre. A very rare cotton-tied 8pp brochure with a card cover, 8vo booklet printed by Herbert Fitch & Co for Bentley Motors Ltd., probably for use at the Olympia or White City motor shows. Indeed, the publication may date from 1920. The card cover is plain save for a blue Bentley motif, opening to reveal a three-colour title page with the Hanover Court address, the following pages describing the car, ' put on the market to appeal to the motorist who appreciates a fast touring car', together with chassis dimensions, images of the engine, a centre-spread profile of the chassis, five tonal images of coach-built cars to include the '4-seater All-Weather with V-Screen' and the 'Semi-Sporting Two-seater Model'. No prices are quoted but instead says, 'Specifications and drawings will be submitted on application'. The final page with monochrome images of the factory. The overall condition is very good, there is a hint of a vertical crease and the cover edges are a little feathered without paper loss, the spine split at the base. The editorial is sound with good colour (1)
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*Jacques Anquetil Bicycle & Borini Engine Attachment. Currently unregistered for the public road, having apparently been used by the previous owner on his private estate. Finished in blue and retaining correct badging, the engine is fitted to a 22-inch frame, with a 1-litre fuel tank mounted on the rear rack. The drive is to the rear wheel just below the bottom crank. 10-speed gearing is fitted, as is a speedometer, calliper braking and a sports saddle (1)
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*Supermarine Schneider Trophy S.6. Seaplane model. chromium-plated on brass, the inscription Rolls-Royce embossed beneath the right float. Highly detailed, with well-crafted floats, cockpit, engine banks, propeller, etcetera. Designed by R J Mitchell, who later designed the Supermarine Spitfire, the Supermarine Seaplane won the Schneider Trophy outright in 1931 at a speed of 357mph. Mounted on a wooden display base, in excellent condition.12cm long (1)
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The Common Road Steam Conveyance Company. Dated 1840 (in manuscript, but likely to be 1841), a most interesting prospectus for the company, offering 40,000 shares at each with a provisional management committee of Messer's Beningfield, Ekin, Herring, Hullmandel, Parry and Watson. A folded double-sided broadsheet, opened and sandwiched between glass in a double-sided frame, and hand-addressed to Mr D Brown, Oxford Buildings, Cheltenham. Verso is printed a testimonial by Mr J T Beale to Colonel Maceroni's steam-engines and boilers, together with various overviews of 'Steam Locomotion' dating from the 1830s, and with a profile of Col. F. Maceroni and his personal introduction to Mr Gurney, etcetera Historic Note: It seems that Col. F. Maceroni was perhaps one of the most colourful entrepreneurs of self-propelled road locomotion, at a time when steam road transport was road tested by many. He designed a number of steam carriages which he built at his own works in Paddington in the 1830s, but was brought to debt by creditors. He then got involved with steam carriages built by Beale in East Greenwich, which were tested to great aplomb in Kent, but the share floatation failed to fund the £1100 bill for the building of the carriage, which was subsequently seized by bailiffs. The well-detailed image at the top of the handbill is believed to be that of Maceroni's carriage, with a very similar, although not the same image, as illustrated in Dr Dionysius Lardner's 'The Steam Engine Explained' of 1840. (1)
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