Good book for Christmas

Nice book, there are a lot on the internet at £10 - £12 plus postage, makes it even better!

(Haynes charges for p&p: Delivery charge per order - £2.75 for UK 2nd Class Post; £4 for UK 1st Class Post)

Peter

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ SPITFIRE MANUAL AN INSIGHT INTO OWNING, RESTORING, SERVICING AND FLYING BRITAIN'S LEGENDARY WORLD WAR 2 FIGHTER: \N (ISBN: 1844254623) PRICE, ALFRED BLACKAH, PAUL Bookseller: Quartermelon Bookseller Rating: Price: US$ 23.89 (£ 11.30) Quantity: 1 Shipping within UK: US$ 8.87 (£ 4.32)

Book Description: HAYNES PUBLISHING GROUP Country = UNITED KINGDOM, 2007. Hardback. Book Condition: BRAND NEW HARDBACK. 160 pages. (\N) Provides an insight into what it takes to own, restore and operate a Spitfire. This book also offers an insight into the engineering and construction of this aeroplane. ILLUSTRATIONS (CHIEFLY COL.) (Hardback).

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£10.62 plus £2.50 p&p for one. I bought it! :-))

Peter

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For the brave of you there's these as well:

Spare a thought for the poor authors.

John

I've had 30 years of just getting by, I certainly don't want a book to tell me where I have been going wrong. My wife is good at that already :-))

The relaxing effects of a good book are not to be underestimated, Martin!

The Rolls-Roce Heritage Trust books are also very much recommended if a little expensive in the UK.

I noticed that they were no longer for sale at the USAF Museum either, where they were almost half the price of the UK sellers, less our membership discount.

Peter

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I read loads of books, just don't want a Haynes manual on Woman. Ones enough without the theory :-))

I have 'The knife and fork man' and 'Rule of thumb' on my Christmas list. Plus, for no easily discernable reason, I just bought a Wartburg workshop manual off ebay!

Nick H.

When all else fails - read the book. QED

John

John,

Don't tell me that when you cant get the video working you look for the manual, same applies to the wife. Eventually the thing sorts itself out :-)) Anyway you would go and buy a new one and still not read the book :-))

Martin P

One has to ask why a Wartburg manual :-))

They were quite interesting little beasties, cousins of the Trabant/DKW/Saab (although SAAB would throw their hands up in horror at any connection!)

Brother in Law had a DKW that he shoehorned a Triumph Herald engine into...

Peter

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Cant disagree with you but I would not have bought a manual for a Rover P6

3500 unless I actually owned the car :-))

Martin P

Dunno, I guess I just like to know how things are put together - when I worked at EMI in Hayes I used to spend lunchtimes at the local library which had a particularly good collection of factory workshop manuals. I'm also particularly attracted to vehicles which fall into the 'minimal motoring' catagory from ancient cyclecars to modern micros and taking in cyclemotors along the way. Have a look at this delight on ebay at the moment:-

too much money, nowhere to put it and I know in my heart of hearts that I'd never actually use it - I can dream though!

Nick H

BTW. If any excuse is needed to be interested in three cylinder two-strokes, have a look, or rather a listen, to this:-

Nick H

Are you refering to a new video or a new wife?

John

Both :-))

Scroll down a bit further and get either of Gunston's aero-engine books. I'm glad to see those back in print, they were expensive recently.

My non-ownership of an E-type is largely because I _have_ read the manual!

One of my favourite old Haynes / Autobooks is the Daf 66, just for the crazy gearbox.

Yes, that would be an interesting one to read (though 'gearbox' is surely something of a misnomer). I'm particularly fond of the 2CV and Honda

50/70/90 ones - both vehicles are engineering masterpieces in their own way.

Nick H.