FULLER (J.F.C), Col.: Pegasus. Problems of Transportation. A REMARKABLE COPY OF A MILITARY CLASSIC , Kegan Paul Trench Trubner & Co., [1925]

8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with a frontispiece and 7 plates; original plum boards, white labels printed in black on upper board and backstrip, joints very lightly rubbed else a near fine copy. With 12pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. A REMARKABLY CRISP, CLEAN COPY OF ONE OF THE SCARCEST TRACTS IN THE EVOLUTION OF MILITARY TRANSPORT. Fuller was one of most the far-sighted military thinkers of his generation; in this unassuming work he proposes a solution to both a desperate military requirement (driven by the appalling inadequacies of the Great War) and increased employment (following the unrest of the General Strike). The plates depict: Guy One-Ton Lorry; Sentinel Tractor; Crossley-Kegresse Car; Morris One-Ton Lorry; Vulcan Two-Ton Lorry; Guy Two-and-a-Half-Ton Lorry; Daimler Three-Ton Lorry; F.W.D. Three-Ton Lorry and Trailer. EXTREMELY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. (Book ref. 19343)  £160.00

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