Every now and then, one of our designers will bring in a book for show-and-tell that gets us a bit excited. One unlikely candidate that had us genuinely enthralled is Simon’s gem of a charity-shop find: From Paddle Steamer to Nuclear Ship, published by Watts & Co, London, in 1965. Here are a small handfull of the incredible quantity of exquisite technical illustrations of ships and engines which lie within:
