The Land Rover File

The Land Rover File
Author: Eric Dymock
Publisher: Dove
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Land-Rover trucks
ISBN: 9780956953360

'The Land Rover File' includes everything about Land Rovers, Range Rovers, Range Rover Sports, Discoverys, and Freelanders. The five ranges are described model by model, each one with a entry and specification, and there is a history of Land Rover's evolution from a stop-gap replacement for the wartime Jeep to the Range Rover Sport.

Land Rover

Land Rover
Author: John Christopher
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2014-06-15
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 1445640694

Designed as a utilitarian vehicle for farmers, the Land Rover has become an automotive legend- the best 4 x 4 x far

The UFO Files

The UFO Files
Author: David Clarke
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2013-03-30
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1408194821

'What does all this stuff about flying saucers amount to? What can it mean? What is the truth?' Winston Churchill, prime minister's personal minute, 28th July 1952 The UFO Files tells the story of over 100 years of UFO sightings, drawing on formerly secret government documents at the National Archives in London. Alongside extraordinary reports by ordinary people, it reveals details of official interest and investigations stretching back more than 80 years. In this remarkable book, fully updated for this second edition, David Clarke reveals an array of startling stories from possible UFO reports hidden among Met Office investigations of aerial phenomena in the 1920s to the conclusions of Project Condign, the secret British Intelligence UFO study completed in 2000. As well as covering Roswell and Britain's own Rendlesham Forest mystery, Clarke raids the records for dramatic stories of abductions and close encounters, ghost aircraft and crop circles, and UFO reports by both civilian aircrew and military personnel. Dramatic witness statements and interviews combine with rarely seen photographs, drawings and newly available documents to offer a unique guide to one of our most intriguing mysteries.

Range Rover First Generation

Range Rover First Generation
Author: James Taylor
Publisher: The Crowood Press
Total Pages: 548
Release: 2018-04-23
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 1785004123

The Range Rover's designers intended it to be a more comfortable and road-friendly passenger-carrying Land Rover, but customers quickly saw something much more in it. During the 1970s, while its immense practicality and capability were appreciated and acknowledged, a Range Rover became a sought-after and prestigious possession. It went on to change the face of Land Rover for ever. Range Rover First Generation - The Complete Story delves into the real story of the Range Rover, examining what lay behind the multiple changes in its twenty-six years of production. The book covers the full development story; custom and utility conversions; Range Rovers for the US market; full technical specifications and Range Rovers assembled overseas. If ever a car deserved the over-used epithet 'iconic', the first-generation Range Rover is it. The book provides an insight into the little-known difficulties and problems that were so well concealed by the Range Rover's makers and is a must read for all Range Rover and Land Rover enthusiasts. Superbly illustrated with 223 colour and 97 black & white photographs.

Digital Manufacturing

Digital Manufacturing
Author: Chandrakant D. Patel
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 485
Release: 2022-07-06
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0323950639

Digital Manufacturing: The Industrialization of "Art to Part" 3D Additive Printing explains everything needed to understand how recent advances in materials science, manufacturing engineering and digital design have integrated to create exciting new capabilities. Sections discuss relevant fundamentals in mechanical engineering and materials science and complex and practical topics in additive manufacturing, such as part manufacturing, all in the context of the modern digital design environment. Being successful in today’s "art to part" cyber-physical manufacturing age requires a strong grounding in science and engineering fundamentals as well as knowledge of the latest techniques, all of which readers will find here. Every chapter is developed by leading specialists and based on first-hand experiences, capturing the essential knowledge readers need to solve problems related to digital manufacturing. Helps produce the "T-shaped" engineers needed in today’s digital manufacturing age by providing carefully selected foundational information from a range of disciplines Covers every step in the additive manufacturing process, from product design through inspection Addresses business models and socioeconomic trends related to cyber physical manufacturing, along with technical aspects

Under the Batholith

Under the Batholith
Author: Kurt Larson
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 696
Release: 2003-01-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0595267815

Kurt Larson has developed an epic mining exploration novel in the pages of Under the Batholith. The principal character is a young mining engineer called Lars Svensson, down on his luck in Wyoming, having being fired over an office affair with an older woman. A big oil company, desperate for success in its newly acquired mining interests, selects him to represent their interests on a gold exploration site on the Isle of Mull in Scotland. How Lars gets there, who he meets and what he finds is the stuff of great adventure. Kurt Larson's exciting style of writing and eye for detail will keep you turning the pages to find how greed gets the better of people.

The Lilitu Trilogy

The Lilitu Trilogy
Author: Toby Tate
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 496
Release: 2017-09-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1682613216

CIA operative Gabrielle "Gabe" Lincoln has been tracking the beast once known as Lilith MacIntyre and her organization ever since she and her unborn child were taken into custody and held at a top secret facility. Gabe soon finds that most in the organization are Lilitu, a race of beings as old as time that may have once dominated the galaxy itself.

Rover Group

Rover Group
Author: Mike Gould
Publisher: Crowood
Total Pages: 652
Release: 2015-05-31
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 1847979408

The Rover Group - Company and Cars is a comprehensive history of the company and a guide to its products. Centring on the period of the official existence of the Rover Group, the book also examines the events leading up to its formation in 1986 and its controversial aftermath, following its dismemberment in 2000. The book is backed by first-hand accounts from Rover employees, as well as a foreword by Jon Moulton, the man behind several bids to acquire elements of the company. Including production histories and full specification guides to its cars, The Rover Group is a compelling insider's account of one of the most controversial periods in the British motor industry. The book covers: the beginnings of Rover and its place in British Leyland; Land Rover's expansion in the 1980s and how it led to the foundation of the Rover Group; Rover under British Aerospace and the sell-off to BMW; Rover's struggle under German management and BMW's disposal of the Group and finally, the aftermath of Rover's collapse - MG Rover, Land Rover and MINI. Fully illustrated with 270 historical and original colour photographs.

Racing Cars

Racing Cars
Author: Philip Raby
Publisher: Lerner Publications
Total Pages: 40
Release: 1999-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780822524878

Presents the design, performance, and statistics of a variety of high-speed cars, including indycars, rally cars, and dragsters.