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• History and development of steam locomotion on common roads (E. & F. N. Spon, 1891), by William Fletcher (page images at HathiTrust)

• Landkryssarna (The tanks) (Hjalmar Lundberg & Gösta Olzon, 1910), by Philip Gibbs and Erik Sparre (page images at HathiTrust)

• Soviet Russian armor and artillery design practices (Marine Corps Intelligence Activity, 1995), by United States. Marine Corps Intelligence Activity (page images at HathiTrust)

• Soviet Russian armor and artillery design practices (Marine Corps Intelligence Activity, 1995), by United States. Marine Corps Intelligence Activity (page images at HathiTrust)

• Soviet Russian armor and artillery design practices (Marine Corps Intelligence Activity, 1996), by United States. Marine Corps Intelligence Activity (page images at HathiTrust)

• Soviet Russian armor and artillery design practices (Marine Corps Intelligence Activity, 1996), by United States. Marine Corps Intelligence Activity (page images at HathiTrust)

• Tanks and Industry: The Detroit Arsenal, 1940-1954 (Warren, MI: History Office, U.S. Army Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command, 1995), by Kevin Thornton and Dale Prentiss (page images at HathiTrust)
• This is armor. (Headquarters U.S. Army Armor Center and Fort Knox, 1986), by US Army Armor Center (page images at HathiTrust)

• Seek, strike, and destroy : U.S. Army tank destroyer doctrine in World War II (Combat Studies Institute, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College ;, 1986), by Christopher R. Gabel (page images at HathiTrust)

• Development of the agricultural tractor in the United States. (Beltsville, Md., 1954), by Roy Burton Gray and American Society of Agricultural Engineers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Development of the agricultural tractor in the United States (American Society of Agricultural Engineers, 1956), by Roy Burton Gray and United States. Agricultural Research Service. Agricultural Engineering Research Branch (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Anleitung zur Behandlung der Lokomobilen (in German; Berlin: P. Parey, 1888), by L. Paul Lázár
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• Album of historical steam traction engines. (Los Angeles, 1949), by Floyd Clymer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Power and the plow (Doubleday, Page & Company, 1911), by L. W. Ellis and Edward Aloysius Rumely (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A new system of heavy goods transport on common roads (Longmans, Green, and Co., 1902), by Bramah Joseph Diplock (page images at HathiTrust)
• Steam traction engineering : a book for operating engineers (D. Appleton, 1916), by Samuel Raymond Eighinger and Mancius S. Hutton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• English and American steam carriages and traction engines. (Longmans, Green, and co., 1904), by William Fletcher (page images at HathiTrust)
• A paper relating to traction engines and steam road rollers. ([Philadelphia], 1873), by Robert Henry Thurston (page images at HathiTrust)
• The economy of steam power on common roads... (Atchley & co., 1861), by Charles Frederic T. Young, J. K. Fisher, and Alexander Lyman Holley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Farm engines and how to run them. (F. J. Drake & co., 1903), by James Henry Stevenson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traction farming and traction engineering, gasoline--alcohol--kerosene; a practical hand-book for the owners and operators of gas and oil engines on the farm ... (F. J. Drake & co., 1913), by James Henry Stevenson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Motor vehicles and tractors. (P. M. Heldt, 1929), by P. M. Heldt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cyclopedia of automobiles, gas and oil engines and farm tractors : a complete manual of practical information for owners and drivers of automobiles, operators of gas and oil engines and farm tractors, with chapters on electric light and water supply systems for farm homes. (F. J. Drake & co., Pub. expressly for Sears, Roebuck & co., 1919), by L. Elliott Brookes and James H. Stephenson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Care and operation of the "caterpillar" 45 tractor. (The Holt manufacturing company, incorporated, 1917), by incorporated Holt manufacturing company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mechanical traction in war for road transport, with notes on automobiles generally. (S. Low, Marston and company;, 1900), by Otfried Layriz and R. B. Marston (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• On the rise and progress of steam locomotion on common roads ... : With an abstract of the discussion upon the papers (Printed by W. Clowes and sons, 1873), by John Head (page images at HathiTrust)
• Practical hand book of gas, oil and steam engines, stationary, marine, traction, gas burners, oil burners, etc., farm, traction, automobile, locomotive ; a simple, practical and comprehensive book on the construction, operation and repair of all kinds of engines. Dealing with the various parts in detail and the various types of engines and also the use of different kinds of fuel. (Charles C. Thompson Co., 1913), by John B. Rathbun (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tractor principles; the action, mechanism, handling, care, maintenance and repair of the gas engine tractor (D. Appleton and company, 1920), by Roger B. Whitman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The modern gas tractor : its construction, utility, operation, and repair, a practical treatise (Henley, 1918), by Victor Wilfred Pagé (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report on the use of caterpillars as motive power for big-wheels. ([n.p., 1924), by Vance S. Brown (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lincoln on agriculture; address, Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, State fair, Milwaukee, September 30, 1859 ... (Lincoln Fellowship of Wisconsin, 1943), by Abraham Lincoln (page images at HathiTrust)
• Farm tractor handbook. (Iliffe, 1919), by George Sherwood (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Traction farming and traction engineering, gasoline, alcohol, kerosene; a practical hand-book for the owners and operators of gas and oil engines on the farm, comprising a full description of the leading makes of farm tractors, with directions for their care and operation; also engines for water supply and electric lighting on the farm. A special section devoted to threshing machines and the science of threshing. (F. J. Drake, 1917), by James Henry Stevenson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Farm engines and how to run them : the young engineer's guide ... with ... a chapter on water supply systems in the farm home, the science of successful threshing (F. J. Drake & Co., 1918), by James H. Stephenson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Adams' common sense instruction on gas tractor operation (The Jensen printing company, 1920), by Harry W. Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• The traction engine, its use and abuse, including gas and gasoline engines : with special chapters on threshing machines and how to run a threshing rig (D. McKay, 1908), by James H. Maggard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gasoline tractors. A practical presentation of tractor problems and their soution (Amrican Technical Society, 1920), by Charles B. Hayward (page images at HathiTrust)
• Suggested unit course in farm tractor maintenance ... (The University of the state of New York, the state education dept., Agricultural bureau and the Bureau of industrial and technical education, 1942), by New York (State) Bureau of Agricultural education, Robert H. Smith, Kendrick Sherman Hart, Archie Augustus Stone, and United States Office of Education (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tractor world. ([Automobile journal pub. co.], 1918) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Power farming (M. Rumely company, 1913), by Raymond Olney (page images at HathiTrust)
• The tractor, selling it as an agricultural implement and fitting it to the midwest crop areas. (A. Capper, 1920), by Topeka Capper Farm Press (page images at HathiTrust)
• The tractor and its influence upon the agricultural implement industry (The Curtis Publishing Company, 1916), by Barton Wood Currie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Farm and garden tractors, how to buy, run, repair and take care of them (Frederick A. Stokes company, 1920), by A. Frederick Collins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tractor engines (American automobile digest, 1920), by E. F. Hallock (page images at HathiTrust)
• Caterpillar times. (Holt Manufacturing Co., in the 20th century), by Holt Manufacturing Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Farm power cyclopedia. A book of practical information for users of gasoline and other engines, stationary, portable, and traction, including successful methods of applying them to various farm, shop and household purposes (Shrewesbury Publishing Co., 1915), by Berton Elliot (page images at HathiTrust)
• The traction engine catechism ; a hand book of practical information for the farm engineer and thresherman, compiled from regular issues of the Threshermen's review, with additions of reference tables ... (The Threshermen's review co., 1906), by Threshermen's Review (page images at HathiTrust)
• Power wagon reference book 1919- (The Power wagon publishing company, 1919), by Stanley A. Phillips (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hart-Parr Company kerosene-gasoline traction engines. (Hart-Parr Co., 1910), by Hart-Parr Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• New Rumely engines and separators. (La Porte Printing Co., 1891), by Rumely Products Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Book of instructions for operators of farm engines (D. McKay, 1904), by James H. Maggard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Instructions for traction and stationary engineers : a book of instruction and reference for traction and stationary engineers, with questions and answers, useful tables, and rules (St. Anthony Park, Minn., 1906), by William Boss (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report from the Select committee on traction engines on roads; together with the proceedings of the Committee, minutes of evidence, appendix, and index. Ordered, by the House of commons, to be printed, 1 July 1896. (Printed for H.M. Stationery off., by Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1896), by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select committee on traction engines on roads and Henry Hobhouse (page images at HathiTrust)
• The traction engine : its use and abuse (Philadelphia : David McKay, 1902., 1901), by James H. Maggard (page images at HathiTrust)
• La mano d'opera e la macchine agrarie. (Piacenza, 1916), by Emilio Morandi, Paolo Ceresa-Costa, Società degli agricoltori italiani, and Federazione italiana dei consorzi agrari (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A book of instructions for operators of farm engines (Musson, 1904), by James H. Maggard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Handbook of the 5-ton artillery tractor, Model 1917 : with instructions for its care, operation and maintenance ; (one hundred thirty-three plates) ; July 15, 1918. ([publisher not identified], 1918), by United States Army Ordnance Department (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cost of operating power equipment on Oregon farms (Oregon State System of Higher Education, Agricultural Experiment Station, Oregon State College, 1942), by D. Curtis Mumford, George B. Davis, and Virgil D. Kennedy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Farm engines and how to run them; the young engineer's guide ... with special attention to traction and gasoline farm engines, and a chapter on the science of successful threshing (F.J. Drake & Co., 1910), by James H. Stephenson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ordnance maintenance: ordnance engine model RD-1820 (caterpillar) 9 December 1943. (War Dept., 1943), by United States Army Ordnance Department (page images at HathiTrust)
• English and American steam carriages and traction engines. (David & Charles, 1904), by William Fletcher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hilde's manual for demonstrating and selling tractors and special equipment for agricultural and industrial use. (Ford dealers' Service Bureau, 1926), by Arthur E. Hildebrand (page images at HathiTrust)
• Practical hand book of gas, oil and steam engines : stationary, marine, traction, gas burners, oil burners, etc., farm, traction, automobile, locomotive ; a simple, practical and comprehensive book on the construction, operation and repair of all kinds of engines ; dealing with the various parts in detail and the various types of engines and also the use of different kinds of fuel (Charles C. Thompson, 1916), by John B. Rathbun (page images at HathiTrust)
• Farming by motor. All about farm tractors and motor ploughing; illustrated examples of the work that can be done with motor tractors and a guide to the selection of machinery for motor tillage. (Temple Press, Limited, 1917) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tractor Principles: The Action, Mechanism, Handling, Care, Maintenance and Repair of the Gas Engine Tractor, by Roger B. Whitman (Gutenberg ebook)
• Practical Hand Book of Gas, Oil and Steam Engines: Stationary, Marine, Traction; Gas Burners, Oil Burners, Etc.; Farm, Traction, Automobile, Locomotive; A simple, practical and comprehensive book on the construction, operation and repair of all kinds of engines. Dealing with the various parts in detail and the various types of engines and also the use of different kinds of fuel., by John B. Rathbun (Gutenberg ebook)
• Farm Engines and How to Run Them: The Young Engineer's Guide, by James H. Stephenson (Gutenberg ebook)

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