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Eagle Comic Vehicle Cutaways from Road Building to Warfare © Mumfordebooks.com Knowledge at the speed of Light Eagle Comic Vehicle Cutaways from Road Building to Warfare Copyright MumfordBooks-Guides 2020 1 © Mumfordebooks.com Knowledge at the speed of Light Eagle Comic Vehicle Cutaways 20 matched double centers Visual Aids Educational Series PublishedCopyright by ©MumfordBooks-Guides Mumfordebooks.com 2020 2020 27 The Cloisters Rhos-on-Sea Colwyn Bay Conwy LL28 4PW This edition is published as an eBook PDF FREE Download Suitable for helping to teach industrial history by illustrations, ideal for special needs help in reading text using GOOGLE Translate with a choice of over hundred languages. Publisher & Editor Michael Robert Mumford Original All Eagle material © Dan Dare Corporation - Colin Frewin We claim Fair Use for study, research, education & special needs. Fully compliant with the Copyright Act 2 © Mumfordebooks.com Knowledge at the speed of Light INTRODUCTION Mumfordbooks Vehicle Cutaway Illustrated: A selection of matched and paired Eagle Centres showing vehicle history from the pioneers to the late sixties. Examples of vehicles range from private, commercial to military. This wide range of vehicles include experimental to mass produced. Each download is great value, yours for FREE. Each download can be printed to A4 size, not big enough to read all the original text and technical fine detail. The first issue of Eagle Comic’s was released in April 1950. Revolutionary in its presentation and content, it was enormously successful, the first issue sold about 900,000 copies. Featured in colour on the front cover was its most recognisable story, Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future, created by Hampson with meticulous attention to detail. Other popular stories included Riders of the Range and P.C. 49, news and sport sections, and educational cutaway diagrams of sophisticated machinery. Children’s comics usually contained a mixture of adventure stories, presented as text rather than strip cartoons. Some BritishCopyright boys were buying MumfordBooks-Guides American horror comics produced for G.I.s. Morris was impressed by the high standard of artwork in the US magazines,2020 but disgusted by their content, which he described as “deplorable, nastily over-violent and obscene contents. These educational cutaway diagrams of machinery were the best professional knowledge-based information ever produced. Each full colour drawing showed how the latest complicated industrial processes worked; in the Air, on Land or Sea. Each section would show types of aircraft and all their working parts. On land from Sport-cars to Land-rovers, Lorries to Trains. On the sea from Lifeboats to Oil-tankers. More complicated technologies like Runways and Airports, Motorways, National Grid, Coal Mines, Power Lines, Generation of Electricity, Telephone Exchanges and much more. A gold mine of information and understanding specially paired to give the maximum visual impact. It may be nearly 70 years ago that the first centrespreads were published. Fashions have dated, like a classic car like the Morgan, still British made, still a family business, lives on. A good design that functions well, adding new materials, electronics and a computer controller, you can be bang up-to-date, and still be of service, to enjoy. 3 © Mumfordebooks.com Knowledge at the speed of Light Vehicle Hydraulics in Action Mechanical Tipping & Digging Copyright MumfordBooks-Guides 2020 4 © Mumfordebooks.com Knowledge at the speed of Light Diesel Power put to Heavy Earth moving wheel-less Tracks Copyright MumfordBooks-Guides 2020 5 © Mumfordebooks.com Knowledge at the speed of Light Magnetic Crane & Turn-Table Fire Quencher Copyright MumfordBooks-Guides 2020 6 © Mumfordebooks.com Knowledge at the speed of Light Airport Fire Engine & Snow-Plough Copyright MumfordBooks-Guides 2020 7 © Mumfordebooks.com Knowledge at the speed of Light 2 & 3 People Carriers Copyright MumfordBooks-Guides 2020 8 © Mumfordebooks.com Knowledge at the speed of Light Modern British Bus & Refuse-Collector Lookout for the New Electric Powered Bus Copyright MumfordBooks-Guides 2020 9 © Mumfordebooks.com Knowledge at the speed of Light Compressed Air & Bulldozer Power Copyright MumfordBooks-Guides 2020 10 © Mumfordebooks.com Knowledge at the speed of Light Grain Carrier & Aircraft Fuel Lorry Copyright MumfordBooks-Guides 2020 11 © Mumfordebooks.com Knowledge at the speed of Light Military Light-Weight & World’s First Tank Copyright MumfordBooks-Guides 2020 12 © Mumfordebooks.com Knowledge at the speed of Light Seaworthy & Saw Bench Land Rover Copyright MumfordBooks-Guides 2020 13 © Mumfordebooks.com Knowledge at the speed of Light Large Mobile Crane & Large Walking Dragline Copyright MumfordBooks-Guides 2020 14 © Mumfordebooks.com Knowledge at the speed of Light Last of London’s Trams & Trolleybuses with today’s Motor Express Coaches Copyright MumfordBooks-Guides 2020 15 © Mumfordebooks.com Knowledge at the speed of Light From London’s Horse Bus to Single & Double Decker Copyright MumfordBooks-Guides 2020 16 © Mumfordebooks.com Knowledge at the speed of Light Mechanical Digging Open Ground to Automatic Coalmining Copyright MumfordBooks-Guides 2020 17 © Mumfordebooks.com Knowledge at the speed of Light From Wooden Fire Ladders to Large Extendable Aluminium Copyright MumfordBooks-Guides 2020 18 © Mumfordebooks.com Knowledge at the speed of Light Road Making the Modern Way, helped with a Heavy Roller Copyright MumfordBooks-Guides 2020 19 © Mumfordebooks.com Knowledge at the speed of Light A Rotary Snow-Plough & Mobil Dental Clinic Copyright MumfordBooks-Guides 2020 20 © Mumfordebooks.com Knowledge at the speed of Light London full of Royal History Full of Museum’s & Art Gallery’s Copyright MumfordBooks-Guides 2020 21 © Mumfordebooks.com Knowledge at the speed of Light Fire Engine Design is always changing to Bigger & Better Copyright MumfordBooks-Guides 2020 22 © Mumfordebooks.com Knowledge at the speed of Light From our 1st Tanks to Large Tanks, soon to be replaced by Flying Drones Copyright MumfordBooks-Guides 2020 2223 © Mumfordebooks.com Knowledge at the speed of Light Eagle Comic Educational Series for Kids and Teachers Eagle Comic Educational Series Part of a FREE DOWNLOADS Kids eBooks FREE DOWNLOADS for visual aids eBooks https://www.mumfordbooks.com/product- category/choicecutaway/ Copyright• Aircraft MumfordBooks-Guides Cutaways • Vehicle2020 Cutaways • General Civil and Social Cutaways • Car Types & Makes Cutaway • General Science Cutaways • Ships and Shipping Cutaways • Trains and Railways Cutaways Publisher & Editor Michael Robert Mumford Original All Eagle material © Dan Dare Corporation - Colin Frewin We claim Fair Use for study, research, education & special needs. 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