Books For Sale

Books

“The Supreme Car”
Sunbeam 1899 – 1935 (NEW & Boxed)

Few copies only remaining out of now two print runs totaling more than a thousand copies in less than a year

£50 Including UK postage

"The History and Development of the Sunbeam Car"
1899 – 1924

A 54 page Sunbeam publication covering their first quarter century, with many illustrations covering cars planes and boats. Most interesting.

£200

“A Voyage in a Sunbeam”
by Mrs Brassey

This is the story of the first ‘round the world’ trip and taken by Mr & Mrs Brassey with family, (and staff) over ten months in 1876/77 in a 157 ft. 531 ton three masted topsail-yard schooner. Charming, alarming and beautifully written.

£100

“A Register of Sunbeam Motorcars”
printed in 1989

One mint copy only

Drawings & Charts

"The Cutaway Collection"

A fine detailed cutaway drawing of a 16 (18.2) hp. Coupe, a card 11” by 8”, probably from a classic car magazine.

£15

A very nice pencil / charcoal drawing of a 1913 12-16hp
Tourer AX 602 bought on eBay.

£20

A Lubrication Chart for the “Twenty” and “Speed Model” this is a 22” x 17” fold up chart in it’s own envelope all in near mint condition.

£50

Copies, ideal for laminating and hanging in the ‘Motor House’.

£10

Handbooks & Parts Lists

A Handbook of Instruction for the 20/60hp. model, Dec. 1924 no. 285
in near mint order,

£65

A similar copy, NOT in very good order, Mar. 1924 no. 262

£15

A Handbook of Instruction for the 16 hp. June 1928

£25

And a Parts List for the same model, January 1928

£40

Sales Catalogues

1911 Sales Catalogue, covering the 12-16, 16-20 and 18-22 H.P. range.
32 pages, ten or more pictures, lots of engineers type drawings, all pretty useless, but it is all there is. Rusty single staple but quite a good copy and very rare.

£200

A Sales Catalogue for the 1932 range of cars, covering the 16(18.2)hp.,
and ‘Twenty’ (23.8hp.) 30 pages
(two pages on the later model are missing)

£50

A Sales Catalogue for the 1933 range of cars, covering the 16(18.2)hp., ‘Twenty’ (23.8hp.) and Speed Model, 24 pages

£120

A Sales Catalogue for the 1935 range of cars, covering the ‘Dawn’ the ‘Twenty’, the ‘Twenty-One Sports and the ‘Twenty-Five’. 26 p.

£140

A ‘fold out’ Sales leaflet on the Sunbeam Range for 1929 showing 18 different coachwork variations with prices.

£75

A ‘fold out’ Sales leaflet on the Sunbeam 35hp. of 1937? near mint,

£50

A Patent Specification paper for 1921/2 for ‘Improvements in Removable Window and Fittings therefore for use on a Motor Vehicles’. Sunbeam Motor Car Co. with line drawing.

£15

Workshop Manuals

Copies of workshop manuals of most Sunbeam models from

£10

Miscellaneous

A pair of brass (should be nickelled) coachbuilder's door plates, late twenties and thirties.

£50

An early (late 50s) cast aluminium Sunbeam Talbot Darracq Register car badge. Number S782

£50

I am pleased to see that it’s not very popular these days, but I do have a nice Sunbeam engraved cigarette case, ‘Sylva (sic) Chrome, made in England’, holds about 15 ‘fags’ of the old fashion short type.

£50

Bruce Dowell, Somerton, Somerset, 01458 274700