London Trams and Trolleybuses – CORRECTED REPRINTED VERSION
£13.95
by Michael H.C. Baker
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The Transport Treasury contains a vast archive of photos of rail and road vehicles, images of which are available to the public. The images in this publication all come from this archive, and they revive for us a bygone age in London. They also remind us how different London was but a relatively short time ago. Had it not been for the Second World War the trams would have disappeared from the streets of London a decade earlier. London Transport Passenger Board, set up in 1933, had made an early decision to replace its extensive tram network with trolleybuses prior to war breaking out in 1939. After the war London Transport saw no long-term future for the trolleybuses either. The relative cheapness of oil trumped clearly trumped the environmental benefits of electric traction.
PLEASE NOTE THAT EARLIER EDITIONS HAD ERRORS THAT HAVE BEEN CORRECTED IN THIS VERSION – ALL OLDER VERSIONS HAVE BEEN DESTROYED
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| Weight | 540 g |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 27.3 × 21.5 cm |
| pages | 112 |
| illustrations | 159 |
| cover | paperback |
| ISBN | 9781913251321 |
| dimensions | 273 x 215 mm |
| format | portrait |
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davididaines –
I have no hesitation in recommending the corrected version of this excellent book. The selection of photographs is very good and, in my opinion equally important, the captions are comprehensive and very informative, problems with these being the reason for the re-print. I still have my doubts about the caption on the ‘introduction’ page, but this shouldn’t influence your decision to buy this book. Highly Recommended.