Buy this book on-line SMITH, RAY & WHITEHEAD, JOHN: : READING'S MUNICIPAL TRANSPORT 1939-1950: WAR AND AUSTERITYUK.READING,BERKSHIRE.MILLANE PUBLISHING,2014. ISBN 9780992873400.
UK,slim Qrto HB,no dw/dj - as issued,1st edn.FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price (£30.00) removal to cover-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,sepia+ monochrome photographic illustrated dw/dj, with yellow lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present - though 2 bottom corners minimally bumped. Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,would appear unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp, clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original glazed photographic illustrated boards and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,slim Qrto HB,no dw/dj - as issued,1st edn,2- 240pp [paginated] includes copyright details,contents list/table,authors' introduction,notes for guidance,6 sections comprising 22 chapters in total,profuse contemporary b/w photographs (buses - the majority,scenic and biographical), appendices (A-F),and an index,plus [unpaginated] a contemporary b/w photographic scenic illustrated title page and laid in loose,2 facsimile folded maps - a) bus routes through town centre and b) a network map - one each to inside of front and back covers.
A view of Reading,Berks in the years of turmoil,adversity and austerity seen through the operations of Reading Corporation Transport.
The corporation's trams,buses and trolley buses have been,progressively,part of Reading's townscape for more than a century,and this book is the first in an intended series detailing the history of public transport in the town from the nineteenth century to the present day. Between them,the books will record the history of a public service which has been vital to the life of Reading and which,for over sixty years,has been under scrutiny from a band of local transport historians and enthusiasts whose observations and notes have added considerably to the detail of the story.
In this volume the authors record the history of Reading Corporation Transport in the years of war and austerity.It vividly recounts the difficulties of operating a provincial bus fleet during the Second World War in the face of shortages,yet with increasing passenger demand and under the ever present threat of air raids.Rising post-war demand for its services then stretched the undertaking further as the town expanded and leisure pursuits boomed again.
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