Download or read book Midland Red Single Deckers written by David Harvey and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the history of each type of single-decker and offers a fascinating insight into the history of these captivating, iconic buses.
Download or read book Midland Red Double Deckers written by David Harvey and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2017-06-15 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Harvey looks at the iconic double-deckers of Midland Red.
Download or read book Midland Red Coaches written by David Harvey and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Harvey explores the coaches of the iconic Midland Red company.
Download or read book Midland Red in Retrospect written by Bernard Warr and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Midland Red in Retrospect covers the period during the 1960s when the Midland Red bus company dominated the Midlands, operating the lions share of the bus services and also operated express coach services from the Midlands to London and other locations. Like London Transport, Midland Red had a very distinctive image and had its own fleet of vehicles designed exclusively for its operations. This volume is written by someone who worked for the company during this period and reflects the color and atmosphere of this much loved and well remembered bus operator. Sadly the author passed away in September 2020, before the book was published and this volume of Midland Red bus pictures is a tribute to him.
Download or read book Leyland Single Decker Buses written by Howard Berry and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This, the second in a series of books showcasing the products of the passenger division of Leyland since 1960 with previously unpublished images covering a variety of types and eras of Single-Decker Buses.
Download or read book Branch Line Louie and His Stories in Rhyme written by Puffing Louie and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique book aims to share the happy memories of a past era of transport through poems and illustrations. Most of the vehicles can still be seen in local and national museums today. We hope you enjoy this book and that the poems bring the pictures to life for you to recall memories of your own.
Download or read book Birmingham Buses After Withdrawal written by David Harvey and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Harvey explores, with the help of illustrations, what happened to Birmingham buses after withdrawal from service.
Download or read book Birmingham Buses Trams and Trolleybuses in the Second World War written by David Harvey and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delving into his superb collection of wartime shots, renowned Midlands bus expert David Harvey offers a fascinating snapshot of theses buses’ life during the Second World War.
Download or read book British Buses in Colour written by Gavin Booth and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An all-colour illustrated book that tells the story of the buses that served Britain between 1950 and 1986.
Download or read book Across Birmingham on the 29A written by David Harvey and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A nostalgic journey across Birmingham on the 29A.
Download or read book B E T Group Bus Fleets written by Jim Blake and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2016-10-19 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at the wonderful variety of buses and coaches operated by British Electric Traction group fleets in the 1960s, featuring previously unpublished photographs from Jim Blake's extensive archives. Not only did these fleets, which served most of England and Wales, have a splendid variety of British-built buses and coaches with chassis manufactured by the likes of AEC, Crossley, Daimler, Dennis, Guy and Leyland with bodywork by such firms as Park Royal, Weymann, Metro-Cammell, East Lancs, Northern Counties, Roe, Duple, Plaxton, Willowbrook and Leyland again but they also had an array of distinctive liveries. Many dated back to the early part of the century when the operators first started bus operation. The smart maroon and cream of East Kent, the dark green and cream of Maidstone & District or the light green and cream of Southdown, for example, were supplemented by ornate fleet-names, often in gold lettering. These three fleets were just a few of those that served seaside towns, and will remind readers of holidays they spent in the 1950s and '60s. Sadly, the years covered by this book are the final years of the BET group, which was taken over by the nationalised Transport Holding Company in late 1967, as a prelude to the creation of the National Bus Company, under which the distinctive liveries of the BET group fleets, and even some of the operators themselves, would disappear. The 1960s also saw the demise of many traditional types of bus that these fleets operated, owing to the introduction of rear-engined double-deckers, such as the Leyland Atlantean and Daimler Fleetline, as well as the spread of one-man operation. Many of the photographs featured in this book show the older types in their final days pure nostalgia for the transport enthusiast!
Download or read book British Buses 1967 written by Jim Blake and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2015-08-30 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at an important turning point in the history of the bus industry in Britain. 1967 was the penultimate year to the end of an era, when private and semi-nationalized company's operated the bus networks in this country.After 1967 the network was never the same again, with the formation of the National Bus Company in 1968.The NBC was a very bland organization compared to the colourful bus companies that had existed before nationalization, and many small municipal fleets amalgamated to form Passenger Transport Executives.This comprehensive volume covers a large number of the bus companies throughout the country in 1967 and also has a good readable narrative describing Jim Blake's journeys travelling on these services across Britain.
Download or read book The Commercial Motor written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book And it Came to Pass written by Stanley Gibbons and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story starts in April 1937 when Stanley entered the Prep. Dept. of the old established grammar school, King Edward 6th School. The clouds of war were gathering in 1937 as the community was recovering from the Great Depression of the early 1930s. The war clouds broke as he entered the Main School in September 1939. When the war ended Stanley was starting his second year in the Sixth Form. In writing his story of these years Stanley has tried to portray events and experiences so that his children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren may have a glimpse of the life that many lived in those traumatic years. The story is framed by School Terms. The development and progress of the War, itemized in summary, was the ever-present and dominant factor in everyones lives.
Download or read book British Buses Coaches in the 1960s written by Jim Blake and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2021-08-30 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pictorial history of buses and coaches of the period, drawn from a British transport photographer’s vast collection. British Buses and Coaches in the 1960s is an overview of the bus and coach scene during a decade of great social and economic change in Britain’s history. This volume looks at the interesting and varied number of bus and coach operators that still existed, before and just after the formation of the National Bus Company in 1968. With around 300 photos, Jim Blake has compiled an informative volume of material from his extensive collection of negatives taken during that period, which give a flavor of how things were at that time of great transformation.
Download or read book Around Hockley Through Time written by Ted Rudge and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2010-10-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating selection of more than 180 photographs traces some of the many ways in which Hockley has changed and developed over the last century.
Download or read book Buses and Coaches of Bristol and Eastern Coach Works written by Nigel RB Furness and published by Crowood. This book was released on 2014-03-31 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Buses and Coaches of Bristol and Eastern Coach Works outlines the history of Bristol Commercial Vehicles and Eastern Coach Works (ECW), two manufacturers that together developed some of the most familiar buses and coaches of the twentieth century. The book covers the full production histories and specifications for the standard range of models produced from 1936 to 1983. The variety of engines used to power Bristol-ECW is outlined and a mechanical specification for each chassis is provided, along with a description of the different body styles produced by ECW for each chassis. There is also a chapter on owners' experiences and advice on buying a bus for preservation.Coverage includes the development of Bristol models in the 1930s - J-type single-decker, K-type double-decker and L-type single decker; the engines, including the Bristol petrol and diesel engines, and other manufacturers' engines used in Bristol chassis; the Lodekka - the radical replacement for the Lowbridge double-decker in the 1950s; the single-deckers of the 1950s - The LWL, LS, SC, and MW; the rear-engined era - The RE single-decker and the VR double-decker; the lightweight LH single-decker and the final years of production. Illustrated throughout with 250 colour photographs - many of them previously unpublished.
