Author: Mick WebberPublisher: Specialist Marketing International
ISBN: 9780711025288
Category : Trolley buses
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Presents in diary format the unfolding history of the trolleybus in London.
London Trolleybus Chronology, 1931-1962
Author: Mick WebberPublisher: Specialist Marketing International
ISBN: 9780711025288
Category : Trolley buses
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Presents in diary format the unfolding history of the trolleybus in London.
London Trolleybus
Author: Ken BlackerPublisher: Capital Transport
ISBN: 9781854142856
Category : Trolley buses
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Under the Wires at Tally Ho
Author: David BerguerPublisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750953535
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Today pollution-free transport is high on the political agenda yet it is sometimes forgotten that electric vehicles ran on the streets of London from the early 1900s until 1962. This book tells the story of that period and describes both the vehicles themselves and the effect they had on the development of the suburbs. Local historian David Berguer has endeavoured to paint a picture of what life was like in the capital during this golden age, travelling and working on the trams and trolleybuses, and includes material based on newspaper reports, council and official minutes and oral histories from those involved. With many previously unpublished photographs and detail on the vehicles and routes themselves, there is even a chapter on the colourful pirate buses which competed against trams in the 1920s.Full of local interest and insights into daily life on north London trams and trolleybuses, this celebration of the glory days of electric street traction in the suburbs of North London is bound to capture the imagination of both transport and local historians alike.
The British National Bibliography
Author: Arthur James WellsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 1264
Book Description
London Trolleybuses
Author: Mick WebberPublisher: Capital Transport
ISBN: 9781854143334
Category : Trolley buses
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
The London Trolleybus
Author: A-Z of British Trolleybuses
Author: Stephen LockwoodPublisher: The Crowood Press
ISBN: 1785002899
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
In the last century, the trolleybus developed into a successful provider of public transport in many towns and cities around Britain. It is often described as being part tram and part motorbus. The trolleybus was a fast vehicle whose acceleration from rest was far superior to that of any motorbus. Added to this it was quiet and fume-free, and consumed home-produced electricity generated using coal. During the last twenty years, there have been many books about trolleybuses published, but hardly any of these has tackled the subject from the vehicle manufacturers' angle, instead concentrating on individual trolleybus systems. This volume is, therefore, a summary of the British trolleybus, describing each manufacturer and its products, and then showing what happened to these vehicles throughout their life. It contains an alphabetical listing of all the manufacturers, detailing company history and trolleybus types produced including production totals. A second alphabetical company-by-company listing gives full details of every trolleybus built for British use, including data such as chassis number and any subsequent significant changes. As far as possible it is all presented in a non-technical way. This complete guide to the types of British trolleybuses produced, how many and their operational history is superbly illustrated with over 300 photographs, many in colour.
Rails in the Road
Author: Oliver GreenPublisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473869404
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 563
Book Description
There have been passenger tramways in Britain for 150 years, but it is a rollercoaster story of rise, decline and a steady return. Trams have come and gone, been loved and hated, popular and derided, considered both wildly futuristic and hopelessly outdated by politicians, planners and the public alike. Horse trams, introduced from the USA in the 1860s, were the first cheap form of public transport on city streets. Electric systems were developed in nearly every urban area from the 1890s and revolutionised town travel in the Edwardian era.A century ago, trams were at their peak, used by everyone all over the country and a mark of civic pride in towns and cities from Dover to Dublin. But by the 1930s they were in decline and giving way to cheaper and more flexible buses and trolleybuses. By the 1950s all the major systems were being replaced. Londons last tram ran in 1952 and ten years later Glasgow, the city most firmly linked with trams, closed its network down. Only Blackpool, famous for its decorated cars, kept a public service running and trams seemed destined only for scrapyards and museums.A gradual renaissance took place from the 1980s, with growing interest in what are now described as light rail systems in Europe and North America. In the UK and Ireland modern trams were on the streets of Manchester from 1992, followed successively by Sheffield, Croydon, the West Midlands, Nottingham, Dublin and Edinburgh (2014). Trams are now set to be a familiar and significant feature of twenty-first century urban life, with more development on the way.
A London Trolleybus Experience
Author: Doug FairhurstPublisher:
ISBN: 9781906919672
Category : Trolley buses
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
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