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      • Travel & Transport
        February 2020

        Classic Engines, Modern Fuel

        The Problems, the Solutions

        by Paul Ireland

        This book tells you why and how. This book brings together a collection of popular articles previously published by the author in assorted car magazines. Based on in-depth research carried out at Manchester University, the articles investigate how classic engines respond to modern petrol/gasoline, and the results are presented in a way that any enthusiast can understand. One chapter ranks some brands and grades of modern petrol/gasoline, helping you choose the best type for your vehicle, while other chapters present the findings that debunk some of the myths about petrol/gasoline and engines. Real data is provided to help you tune your classic vehicle, ensuring that it runs as it should, allowing you to experience the pleasure of driving your classic car instead of worrying about it breaking down. The appendix gives a down-to-earth description of how to rebuild and tune SU and similar carburettors.Paul Ireland’s years of experience and no-nonsense scientific approach will help you get the best from your classic car.

      • Agriculture & farming
        July 2021

        Agricultural Engineering

        A Practical Manual

        by P. Kandaswamy

        This book on Agricultural Engineering integrates post harvest engineering, protected cultivation, land surveying and soil-water conservation engineering. The book organizes the scattered information and provides better practical skills to the students and to serve as a practical reference book for the undergraduate students of Agricultural Science, Horticulture and Agricultural Engineering. The book includes different topics as per the undergraduate agricultural science curriculum. The book will suit to the needs of Agricultural Polytechnics, Trainees of professional training institutions including post harvest laboratories, KVK, Soil Conservations Training Centres.

      • Agriculture & farming
        July 2015

        Tractors and Agricultural Machinery

        2nd Fully Revised and Updated Edition

        by K. Srinivasan, Sanjeev Kumar Singh, V.V. Narayanan & L.Geetha Lakshmi

        This fully revised and updated second edition contains updated information on working of different subassemblies that make a tractor. Uses of tractor for various agricultural and non agricultural operations are vividly described. Besides, updates are also incorporated on various implements, equipment and machinery developed in India for different agricultural operations, viz,. land preparation, sowing/planting, weeding, plant protection, harvest threshing, post harvest and agro-processing. Information on agriculture relation sections like special tools and equipment used in horticulture, water lifting devices, calibration of seed drills has also been given. The first edition was widely used as a standard reference book for graduate students in agricultural engineering and regular engineering colleges. The present edition would also serve the same purpose and can be used as a ready reference for the teaching staff in educational institutions and testing institutions, extension workers, scientists and farmers.

      • Road & motor vehicles: general interest

        DIGGERS - LITTLE BOOK OF

        by Ellie Charleston

      • Road & motor vehicles: general interest

        TRACTORS - LITTLE BOOK OF

        by Ellie Charleston

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