Buy this book on-line DUCKHAM,BARON F & HUME,JOHN.R - ed by: : TRANSPORT HISTORY 1971 - Volume 4 of the journal Transport HistoryUK.NEWTON ABBOT,DEVON.DAVID & CHARLES,1972. ISBN 0715354698.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1st thus.NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn but price-clipped dw/dj.Orange and white, b/w pictorial illustrated upper wrap dw/dj with minimal shelf-wear to edges with light creasing to bottom rear edge and no nicks or tears.
Fore-edge bright and clean, top edge coloured.
Contents tight and near pristine.Slate grey paper-covered bds with stamped gilt letters to spine/
backstrip and plain white eps.8vo,344pp includes b/w maps+drawings,24pp b/w photographs/illus; references,book reviews,notes and indices(3).
This is a bound volume of the original issue journal,Transport History published three times a year,containing the complete articles,book reviews and notes and news which appeared in the 3 issues of volume 4,the principal journal of its kind.
Here is provided,in a convenient form,a wide range
of interesting material of permanent value to all who are concerned with transport development in its manifold aspects.The book will be of particular
use to those who do not usually see the separate issues of the journal immediately they appear.
Among the varied selection of signed articles are many authoritative contributions in their fields. Longer papers include:'The Railways and Steamboat Competition in Early Victorian Britain';'Continuous
Brakes-a vexed Question.How the Scottish Railways resolved it';'The Battle of the Manchester Railway junctions';'Beverley and its Beck;Borough Finance and a Town Navigation 1700-1835';'The Metropolis Roads Commission:an Attempt at Turnpike Trust Reform';and 'Transport Problems of Glasgow West India Merchants during the American War of Independence 1775-83'.
There is a full and varied crop of shorter papers and reviews of books and articles published in Britain and elsewhere.The 'Notes and News' section contains as usual items of interest to both scholar
and enthusiast alike.See also rja917 and rja1983.
This edn is now out-of-print as the publisher ceased trading in the late 1980's.
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