The Story of the Steam Plough Works Fowlers of Leeds
London; (1980): Northgate Publishing Co. First Edition. Quarto. Item #024059
409 pp. with a foreword by Isabel A. Pelly, illustrated with photographic images and line drawings of various tractors and steam engine ploughs. John Flowler was from a family of strict Quakers. He has a vision and was inspired to devote his considerable energies and resources to the cheapening of food production. Following his visit to Ireland during the Potato Famine, 1 1/2 million people either died of starvation or left the country. Fowler had a hard time achieving recognition for his work but finally winning 500 pounds from the Royal Agricultural Society of England's in 1858. Following his untimely death in a hunting accident, his brothers and their heirs continued successfully to develop the business which then manufactured traction engines, road locomotives, generators, industrial machinery and a host of other machines. An interesting work for anyone in the field of social and mechanical historians, engineers and agriculturists, traction engines, railway and more. Bound in a dark leather like cloth, spine lettering gilt, lower corners only lightly bumped, near fine in a fine pictorial dust jacket.
Price: $50.00