Buy this book on-line Rhodes, G. D : Kenya and Uganda Railway. Report of the Acting General Manager on the Administration of the Railway and Marine Services for the Year Ended 31st December, 1926(Nairobi: Printed by the Government Printer, 1927)
335 x 212 mm; cloth-backed printed blue wrappers; pp. (vi) + 90; diagrams, longitudinal sections, photographs, a plan of Kilindini Harbour Works, and a large, folding map of Kenya Colony. Wrappers worn, grubby and foxed, endpapers and folding material at the rear likewise rather foxed; moderate foxing throughout; tags for card subdivisions curled and grubby. Fair condition. Uncommon. A fascinating document, providing an overview of the operation of the Uganda Railway, or 'Lunatic Express', in the years directly before its assimilation into the Kenya and Uganda Railways and Harbours in 1929. The plates are of particular interest, and include images of the Company's steamer service on Lake Kyoga. Photographs include Kilindini Harbour, Construction Works over the Mpologoma Swamp, Launching Bridge Girders over the Malawa River - Uganda Extension, Lake Kioga (A steamer and lighter caught in the sudd, Cutting sudd preparatory to towing down stream, The vessel S. W. Grant, Namasagali Wharf), Kisumu, and, One of the spirals on the Uasin Gishu section. Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Rhodes, G. D : Kenya and Uganda Railway. Report of the Acting General Manager on the Administration of the Railway and Marine Services for the Year Ended 31st December, 1926. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including livres rares, incunabula, libri rari, used books and out of print books. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |