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Book Condition: Used Very Good +
Seller: Diversity Books, IOBA

Australia
About Item: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia: H.J.Green, Government Printer, 1924. Original brown cloth. 147pp., intext, b/white schematic line-drawings throughout, plus an intricate series of fold-out diagrams affixed in rear [all extant]. Book clean and 'square' [distortion from fold-outs excepted]. Spine firm. Tanned endpapers, minor biopredation on rear fep, and margin of Index, an important errata label affixed to plain verso of Contents page, otherwise leaves clean. Printed cloth boards nominally bumped only. Issued in 1924, for motormen and guards working with electric trains in the Victorian Railway System, numerous contents include: Definitions, Descriptions [Systems, Equipment], Circuits: Main, Compressor, Protective Relay, Dynamotor, Master Controller, Panograph, Traction Motor, Testing, Stabling, General instructions, more. This volume was published just five years after the first electric trains ran in Melbourne in 1919 . . . Book weight approx. 250g. Postage charge will be reduced as this item… Read More
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