Glossops: Kings of Tarspraying
Language: English
Published by R.A.Whitehead and Partners, 2000
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- Title
- Glossops: Kings of Tarspraying
- Author
- Whitehead, R.A.
- Publisher
- R.A.Whitehead and Partners
- Publication year
- 2000
- Condition
- Used; Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0953826902
- ISBN 13
- 9780953826902
- Item weight
- 522 grams
W & J Glossop of Yorkshire's West Riding were a major road surface dressing firm through the 20th century, using a fleet of steam wagons and other vehicles converted to tarsprayers. Including 70 drawings and photographs, this book tells the history of the company from its foundation in 1906 to its acquisition in 1984, detailing the technicalities of the surface dressing trade and listing the firm's many articulated road burners, steam traction engines, road rollers and wagons. Off-mint.
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