Flying Carpets, Flying Wings is a biography about Moye W. Stephens, his friends, and his achievements in aviation. During the 1920s, Moye flew with Eddie Bellande, Jack Northrop, Allan Hancock, Howard Hughes, William Boeing and many other aviation notables. This led to a career flying Ford trimotors for Maddux, TAT, T&WA. From 1930 to 1932, Moye flew author Richard Halliburton around the world in a Stearman C-3B named the Flying Carpet. This is the first and only factual narrative of that flight. In 1939, Moye was one of a select few who founded Northrop Corporation when he flew several Northop prototypes including the N-1M flying wing. Moye’s well-researched and definitive biography covers nearly 80 years of aviation history. Pictures are interspersed throughout the text – some photos have never been published before. The Appendix includes extra pictures, the Flying Carpet timeline, and the TAT information handbook.
Repair * Restoration * Maintenance (Enthusiast’s Restoration Manual)
Here is the ultimate resource packed with restoration know-how on all kinds of interior fittings in your classic car.
Starting with an initial cleaning, this new volume produced in close co-operation with the editors of Europe’s largest vintage car magazine OLDTIMER MARKT, provides easy-to-follow guidance on how to repair and renovate carpets, headlinings, seats, wood and synthetic material parts, instruments, steering wheels: even how to succeed in making your radio sound just like new!
A special chapter is dedicated to the reproduction of parts on a 3D printer.
“Antique Auto Body Leather Work for the Restorer,” by Herbert J. Butler. Find out how to restore or recreate your early auto interior. This guide reproduces period sources that show you how reupholster seats, doors, headliners, and interior trim. You will learn about the materials & tools used in the art and craft of motor trimming: motor hides, Morocco leather, imitation leather, combined leather and lining material, cloth, canvas, carpets, coach laces, stuffing materials, cushion springs, trimmers’ tools, and tufting machines. Find out the specifics of making seat cushions: the amount of fullness, the cushion pad, making the cushion borders, cushion with wood frame foundations, cushion without borders, plain trimming, the front roll, backs, side quarters, side and backs in one. You will also learn about other interior upholstery: door trimming, doors of closed bodies, front lining boards, headlining leathers, and metal beading. You can use the scaled layouts (with descriptions and instructions) for typical body types to recreate authentic leather trim for your restoration: limousine in hand-buffed leather, coach, depot wagon, landaulet, Electric Opera Bus, Brougham, Full Leather Phaeton, Limousine in Bedford Cord, Electric Brougham, the High-Wheeler, Limousine in Cloth, Runabout Roadster, and the Electric Stanhope Phaeton. You will also learn about cutting curtains, filling cushions, spring construction, and ventilating cushions. This book faithfully reproduces trim data originally appearing between 1905 and 1908 in rare American trade publications, together with relevant British material from 1924. Includes introductory text from “Motor Body Work” by Herbert J. Butler. The publisher states that “for mastery, this practically lost art requires no more than common sense, coupled with qualified instruction. 127 pages, softbound. Year Application – General.
