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If you've never seen an Eddie Stobart truck, you've never driven down a British motorway. This is the story of a multi-million pound business that spawned a middle-class motorway game.
Dealing with design principles, influences, appreciation, and application, this manual presents a different approach to becoming a professional furniture maker and designer. It discusses examples of work suitable for both batch production and one-off commission work as well as the tools and machinery required for a variety of working situations.
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The world’s greatest haulier – a rags-to-riches tale of British entrepreneurialsim.
Timber deals with wide-ranging use of the material in historic buildings, from vaststructural timber-frames through to high-class joinery and simple fixings. Particular attention is paid to how and why timber decays or faults occur, and the methods of assessing and dealing with this. The bulk of the book covers appropriate methods of repair and maintenance.
Written by a woodworker for fellow woodworkers, this book will teach how to get great designs out of readers' heads and into working drawings. They will create original furniture that is strong, attractive, and well-proportioned. Includes information on how to develop a design philosophy; how to apply standards of size, shape and style; how to select the proper materials and tools; and more.
This work provides an insight into the history of Welsh stick chairs and includes instructions on how to make a chair, covering methods of bending the wood for chair construction. Illustrations show each stage in the building process.
The first authoritative account of the history of the wooden bowl.
A book covering the UK and European Health and Safety directives. It deals with various aspects of this useful woodworking machine, including spindle speeds, cutting action theory, operation safety, cutter and cutter types and their preparation and performance, development of cutters, grinding, profiling and development.
Now in its 37th edition, and compiled in association with the Publishers Association, this is the most authoritative, detailed trade directory available for the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, listing over 900 book publishers. Comprehensive entries include, where available: - full contact details including addresses and websites - details of distribution and sales and marketing agents - key personnel - listing of main fields of activity - information on annual turnover, numbers of new titles and numbers of employees - ISBN prefixes including those for imprints and series - details of trade association membership - information on overseas representation - details of associated and parent companies. In addition to the detailed entries on publishers, the Directory offers in-depth coverage of the wider UK book trade and lists organizations associated with the book trade: packagers, authors' agents, trade and allied associations and services. The directory is also available to purchase as an online resource, for more information and a free preview please visit www.continuumbooks.com/directoryofpublishing