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Weird and Wonderful Ways of Travelling by Road, Rail, Air and Sea
by John Wade
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781399003971
Pub Date: 2022-04-13
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Pen and Sword Transport
208 Pages
Over the years many weird and wonderful types of transport have come and gone, some of which succeeded against all odds, others that spectacularly failed, and some that never got beyond a designer’s drawing board.
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