A number of books have chronicled the history and vehicles of the Bristol Omnibus Co. It was one of the largest and greatest of British bus operators and ...with a nod in the direction of Midland Red... unique in that, as well as operating buses, it also constructed them and supplied them to the entire industry. This book is a little different. ......
Feel the ground quake with power across these 160 pages of full-color photos of modern earthmovers! Youll get the full scoop on the biggest, most powerful, diesel powered, juggernauts working today.
Just a few of the machines on display include bulldozers, wheel loaders, bucket wheels, walking draglines and more, from well-known ......
LONDONS FAMOUS RT-TYPE BUSES were an iconic symbol of our Capital city in the 1950s, before being superseded by the Routemasters. Most were built between 1947 and 1954 to replace worn-out pre-war and wartime buses, as well as our remaining trams. More than 7,000 were built in all and although London Transport favoured A.E.C. chassis, which the ......
Beginning with the development of the first Ford tractors in 1917 and finishing in 1991 with the purchase of the Ford tractor brand by New Holland, this is one of the few books to tell the complete story of Ford and Fordson tractors. The author covers the parallel development of Fordson tractors, made at Dagenham in Essex, with Ford tractors in ......
Public transport began in Barnsley in 1902 with the opening of the Barnsley & District Electric Traction Co. Ltd, with a small Y-shaped network from Smithies to Worsborough Bridge and Worsborough Dale. Motorbus operations commenced in 1913, which soon expanded outwards, bringing about the first name change, with the word electric being dropped ......
The 1970s were among London Transport s most troubled years. Prohibited from designing its own buses for the gruelling conditions of the capital, LT was compelled to embark upon mass orders for the broadly standard products of national manufacturers, which for one reason or another proved to be disastrous failures in the capital and were ......
Hampshire is the largest county in South East England, despite losing the Isle of Wight and other areas during the 1974 boundary changes. Three important cities fall within its present boundaries; Winchester, Southampton and Portsmouth. Winchester, once the capital of England and still the county town, was home to the famous green buses of King ......
Car production at Volvo began in 1926 in Stockholm with a prototype. By 1927 small goods vehicles based on the car designs were in production at Gothenburg, and heavier three-tonners were being produced by 1928. Already known for their robust cars, Volvo lorries first came to British roads in 1967 after Jim McKelvie, a former road haulier, saw ......
Classic trucks are an important part of our heritage and are supported by many enthusiasts in the preservation world and the general public. Events nationwide throughout the year command lots of vehicle entries from the many clubs and preservation groups, and large numbers of the general public. It could be well known liveries from the past, ......
This book covers the whole history of David Brown tractors from 1939 to the closure of the company in 1988. He describes the models developed at the factory in Huddersfield, Yorkshire and how they evolved over time. The author also covers the many innovative features that were pioneered by David Brown, including hydraulic systems and ......
Yorkshire Rider was created out of the 1985 Transport Act, which became known as Deregulation. The West Yorkshire PTE created Yorkshire Rider Limited, who had to bid for the bus services they wish to operate, produce timetables, maintain the fleet, replace time expired vehicles and promote the new company in print and other media avenues. The ......
Kingston upon Hull Corporations motorbus fleet was always varied and interesting. The azure and white streamline livery is well known but was one of five actually carried. Buses were initially an adjunct to the trams serving areas away from the radial tram routes, but they were instrumental in serving the new council estates of the 1920s and ......
Eastern Coach Works, known as ECW, was based in Lowestoft in Suffolk. The history of ECW goes back several decades, though in this book we pay tribute to buses and coaches bodied during the sixties, seventies and eighties. Originally formed by United Automobile Services, the Lowestoft operation was passed on to the Eastern Counties Omnibus ......
The Bristol Lodekka derived from a prototype of 1949. It offered the solution to a problem familiar to almost every bus operator: low railway bridges. An ingenious re-design of the transmission in which the propeller shaft was offset to the side and drove a drop-centre, double-reduction rear axle, eliminated the conventional step up from the ......
This book takes up the story of Massey Ferguson tractors from 1957, after the merger of Massey Harris and Feguson and when the new name and red and grey colour scheme was used for the first time. The book brings the reader right up to date with the latest developments as well as a look into the future. The author describes the early models that ......
This is the third in the Regional Tramways series that covers the history of tramway operation in the British Isles. Focusing on North-West England, the book provides an overview of the history of tramways in the region from the 1860s, when one of the pioneering horse trams that predated the Tramways Act of 1870 operated in Birkenhead (the ......
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