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If your house needs a new vacuum cleaner do read this Book Review by Michael E. Ware: "This 106 page soft cover book is out of the ordinary, it tells of the many products built by Wolseley between 1901 and 1926 (when they were owned by Vickers) that are not cars! Vickers bought Wolseley because they could see that the motorised vehicle had many military possibilities but they used them for many other ideas.
Norman Painting has found many very interesting photographs with which to illustrate this book, some have not reproduced too well. Most photographs have long and informative captions to go with introductory text. It is also surprising how many of the items illustrated did not go into production! Take the narrow gauge shunting locomotive of 1904 with steam outline powered by a 20hp 2 cylinder horizontal engine. They built only one but did go on to build 80 hp 4 cylinder engines to drive an electric dynamo to power standard gauge railcars (continue at Read More)

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