Item #004026 ATELIERS: De Tours Et St-Pierre-des-Corps
ATELIERS: De Tours Et St-Pierre-des-Corps
ATELIERS: De Tours Et St-Pierre-des-Corps
ATELIERS: De Tours Et St-Pierre-des-Corps
ATELIERS: De Tours Et St-Pierre-des-Corps

ATELIERS: De Tours Et St-Pierre-des-Corps

SNCF (Societe nationale des chemins de fer francais), 1939. 1st Edition. Wraps. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Good. Item #004026

1st edition. TEXT in French. A Good copy. Oblong 4to., 38 pp., illustrated with numerous plates, many folding: blueprints, diagrams, plans, b&w photographs, original photographs, and maps. Bound in stiff brown wraps, with title on the front panel in silver. Some curling to the pages, particularly along the bottom edge. A Good to Very Good copy. Additionally a July 1941 Visite Des Ateliers pamphlet is laid in. **** "The workshops of the railway of Tours and its region" was published by SNCF in June 1939, on the eve of World War Two. It shows the Railyards, and rail workshops in the Tours region. Plans, blueprints and real photographs of the railyards and routes, offices, workshops, Grosse Chaudronnerie, etc. An interesting snapshot of the French National Rails just months before WWII begins. ***.

Price: $75.00