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Melbourne, Victoria, Australia: John Mason Press, 1989. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket. 245mm x 175mm x 8mm. 84 Pages with Black/White Photos. From October 1889 until January 1896, an electric tram ran between the Box Hill Post Office, on the corner of Whitehorse Road and Station Street, and a terminus near the intersection of Elgar and Doncaster Roads, Doncaster. It was the first electric tram in Australia, and the southern hemisphere, to operate as a regular service. The history of this pioneer electric tramway is a story of technical innovation, initiative and perseverance by the early settlers at a time when Box Hill was a small but growing township. The origin of the Box Hill-Doncaster electric tramway dates from the Centennial International Exhibition, held at the Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne, in 1888-89. Among the unusual attractions at this elaborate event was a working electric tramway exhibited by the electrical importer W.H. Masters and Company. The people of… Leer más

Clophill, Bedfordshire, UK: Irwell Press, 1998. 1st Edition . Soft cover. New/No Jacket. 295mm x 210mm x 3mm. 52 Pages with Black/White Photos. The Glasgow system was the largest outside London in the UK and operated more trams (over 1200 at its maximum) than all the other Scottish systems put together. It was the last of the big city systems to close in 1962 and its life was prolonged by being self sufficient to a large extent through having the Coplawhill Car Works to service the fleet and where most of the trams were built. Glasgow Corporation operated a route colour system until 1938 but examples of red, yellow and blue trams were still to be seen until the early 'fifties. From 1871 - 1894 the lease of the Corporation-owned tracks was held by the Glasgow Tramway & Omnibus Company.

New South Wales, Australia: Lucas Publications, 2017. Revised & Enlarged . Soft cover. New/No Jacket. 300mm x 210mm x 7mm. 57 Pages with Black/White and Colour Photos.

Hudson, Wisconsi, USA: Iconografix, 2004. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket. 260mm x 220mm x 6mm. 78 Pages with Colour & Black/White Photos. Bus and Greyhound fans will enjoy this selection of just under three hundred postcards. Each page has four photos and it's a pity they are not all in color, as it is every other spread has eight in color. None of the cards are dated so a pleasant few hours can be spent with a car and this bus guide Greyhound Buses 1914-2000 Photo Archive to approximately put a year on each postcard, there are plenty of Silversides, GM PDA's 4101, 4104 and stunning Scenicruisers to spot. The postcard reproduction is pretty good, too and I was pleasantly surprised to see that all the cards have a drop shadow on them which gives the pages extra sparkle. The typography and graphics on the cover, title, intro and content pages are rather dull though, this seems a common book design problem for transport publishers. Fans of Moderne or Streamline architecture will… Leer más

Clophill, Bedfordshire, UK: Irwell Press, 2012. 1st Edition . Laminated Pictorial Boards. New/No Jacket. 250mm x 190mm x 8mm. 64 Pages with Colour Photos. Latest in a growing series of bus topics. Full colour to show the joyous variety of liveries we enjoyed then, described by a life-long enthusiast, technical expert and senior man in the industry today. Most people living in the Cannock Chase, Aldridge and Brownhills areas, before 1975, will have heard of Harper Bros (Heath Hayes) Ltd. This company, almost always simply referred to as 'Harpers' was synonymous with public transport in the area, taking many residents on their journeys to school, work, days out, tours and even on a summer Saturday coastal express service to their chosen holiday destination. The company also put the name of Heath Hayes, a small Staffordshire mining village, on the national map as bus enthusiasts throughout the country took an interest in this well-known operator. Their mixed fleet amounted to over 50 vehicles, making… Leer más

Hersham, Surrey, United Kingdom: Ian Allan Publishing, 1999. 1st Edition . Hardcover. New/New. 245mm x 180mm x 15mm. 128 Pages with Black/White Photos. With its origins in the period immediately after WW1, the Leeds-based bus bodybuilding company of Charles H. Roe was one of the longest established in the business, before its closure in the 1980s. This book examines the history of the company

East Roseville, New South Wales, Australia: Kangaroo Press, 1997. 1st Edition . Hardcover. New/New. 270mm x 190mm x 18mm. 152 Pages with Colour and Black/White Illustrations. Sydney once operated, reputedly, the world's largest steam tram network. Beginning with a temporary line to the International Exhibition of 1879, the system rapidly spread into the far corners of the city. Today's long-established suburbs such as Coogee, Bondi Beach, Dulwich Hill, Leichhardt and Rozelle took shape along the tracks of those quaint little hissing, whistling Yankee "steam motors" hauling ungainly double-deck cars. At the turn of the century steam trams were making 1200 daily journeys through the City and carrying some 70 million passengers each year. More than just a convenient means of transport, the 'Juggernauts' and 'Manglers' became an indispensable part of the city's social fabric: a bloody accident rate, the nefarious deeds of larrikin conductors, wolf-whistling drivers and the Bondi tram that 'shot through'… Leer más

Clophill, Bedfordshire, UK: Irwell Press, 2006. 1st Edition . Soft cover. New/No Jacket. 300mm x 210mm x 4mm. 56 Pages with Black/White Photos. The author's first evocation of the Trams of his boyhood, LEICESTER'S TRAMS, was published by Irwell Press in 2000 and sold out long ago. This new account is compiled from all new material - an unrivalled further sequence of photographs and Leicester streetscapes, from the long-distant days before the Great War to the petrol-rationed times of austerity after the Second. Beautifully painted and kept in excellent order the Leicester Trams fought a long rearguard until 1949 - they were the Great Survivors of the tram world. By the 1930s, tramways had been abandoned in every East Midlands municipality, with one notable exception - the City of Leicester.

Clophill, Bedfordshire, UK: Irwell Press, 2000. 1st Edition . Soft cover. New/No Jacket. 300mm x 210mm x 4mm. 56 Pages with Black/White Photos. From 1904 the tramway used a fleet of 99 double deck trams, supplemented by an additional 40 in 1905. Twenty new trams arrived in 1913/1914 for an experiment with "pay as you enter" boarding. The last new, numbers 161-178, came into service in 1920.

Clophill, Bedfordshire, UK: Irwell Press, 2010. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Laminated Pictorial Boards. New/No Jacket. 250mm x 195mm x 10mm. 64 Pages with Colour Photos. Having spent his youth photographing steam locomotives Garry Yates switched, in1968, to taking black and white bus photographs on a 'box' Brownie 127 camera of the exposed radiator Birmingham City Transport buses which, at the time, were disappearing fast as new Fleetline buses took over. In 1973 he could finally afford a better camera and from that time onwards took colour slides and over the last 35 years has covered every bus fleet in the British Isles and Ireland including the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. Many of the fleets and buildings have disappeared over the years, and today's four large bus companies have certainly made the hobby less interesting with a standardisation of vehicle types and liveries. In this book Garry has tried to give a flavour of London's buses in the 1970s showing the variation of vehicle types in… Leer más

Clophill, Bedfordshire, UK: Irwell Press Limited, 2014. 1st Edition . Soft cover. New/No Jacket. 300mm x 210mm x 4mm. 76 Pages with Colour & Black/White Photos. What is a Trolleybus? In essence it is a bus that runs on rubber tyres (as a normal road vehicle) but is powered by electricity collected from overhead wires by way of a pair of poles (correct term being booms). It is not like a tram where the power is collected by a single collector and the return of the current is through steel wheels running on steel rails laid into the roadway. The trolleybus gives slightly more flexibility than a fixed tram route in that it can overtake or negotiate normal road vehicles but is still limited to the route of the overhead wiring. Of course, unless on a separate 'track', they cannot overtake each other - thus the old saying, another convoy on its way". London had one of the largest fleets of trolleybuses in the world and at its peak had about 1 800 such vehicles. They were introduced to give longevity to… Leer más

Clophill, Bedfordshire, UK: Irwell Press, 1999. 1st Edition . Soft cover. New/No Jacket. 300mm x 210mm x 4mm. 50 Pages with Black/White Photos. In 1908 a forwarding thinking town council invested in an electronic tram system for the people of Luton. This was an unusual step for the local borough councillors requiring intervention at a parliamentary level. Given that travel by tram was uncomfortable to both pedestrians and travellers alike and at the mercy of the elements it proved to be a master stroke and the system enjoyed a 25-year career serving the people of Luton. However, in 1932 the last few of these great trams were finally sold off.

Clophill, Bedfordshire, UK: Irwell Press, 2002. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket. 300mm x 210mm x 3mm. 52 Pages with Black/White Photos. The history of this little-known tram system which opened in 1905 and was abandoned in favour of motor buses in 1932. With a detailed, lively text, and packed with rare archive photographs, this is a fascinating focus on transport from the past. Map.

Pinewood, Victoria, Australia: Train Hobby Publications, 2008. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket. 210mm x 297mm x 10mm . 56 Pages with Colour Photos. Illuminated advertising trams in the streetscapes of Melbourne

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia: Transit Australia Publishing, 2001. Reprint . Soft cover. New/No Jacket. 210mm x 140mm x 13mm. 155 Pages with Black/White Photos. Operating from 1885 until 1940, Melbourne's cable tram system was the fourth biggest in the world, with about 75 km of double track, 17 inner-suburban routes, and 600 cable car and trailer sets. Cable trams depended for their motive power on a cable in a slot between the rails, kept moving by an engine house along the route. In the first car (the dummy), the driver (the gripman) worked the levers that gripped the cable to make the tram move. Passengers could ride in the dummy, but apart from the roof it was quite open. To warn passengers to hold on when the tram departed from a straight line, the gripman usually called 'mind the curve!' The second car was more like a conventional small tram, but was only a trailer, pulled along by the dummy. Melbourne's first cable tram ran on 11 November 1885 from Spencer Street along Flinders Street… Leer más

Elizabeth, South Australia, Australia: Railmac Publications, 2015. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket. 210mm x 150mm x 5mm. 20 Pages with Colour & Black/White Photos.

Elizabeth, South Australia, Australia: Railmac Publications, 2015. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket. 210mm x 150mm x 3mm. 28 Pages with Colour & Black/White Photos.

Elizabeth, South Australia, Australia: Railmac Publications, 2016. 1st Edition . Soft cover. New/No Jacket. 215mm x 210mm x 6mm. 25 Pages with Black & White Photos. The second booklet of trolleys in Adelaide in 1963 (the system's final year) covers the eastern section of the system. Includes some double decker AEC and Leyland shots from the previous decade.

Canterbury, Victoria, Australia: Transit Australia Publishing, 2019. 1st Edition . Soft cover. New/No Jacket. 210mm x 150mm x 9mm. 120 Pages with Colour & Black/White Photos.

Elizabeth, South Australia, Australia: Railmac Publications, 1989. 1st Edition . Soft cover. New/No Jacket. 215mm x 150mm x 8mm. 12 Pages with Black/White Photos.