Hello boy, In czech republic wents out this serie of books: 1000 trucks, 1000 fire trucks, 1000 tractors and 1000 building machine..
In this books are machines sorted by manufactor (trucks, fire trucks, building machines) or by manufactor and era of produce (tractors). By every manufactor are lot of photos and basic informations about produced models..
I don´t know, if this books exist in other languages, but I advise look for them!