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Trolleybus Twilight: Britain'S Last Trolleybus Systems [Audiobook] download free by Jim Blake

Trolleybus Twilight: Britain'S Last Trolleybus Systems Audiobook download free by Jim Blake
  • Listen audiobook: Trolleybus Twilight: Britain'S Last Trolleybus Systems
  • Author: Jim Blake
  • Release date: 2017/7/1
  • Publisher: PEN & SWORD BOOKS LTD
  • Language: English
  • Genre or Collection: Transportation
  • ISBN: 9781473861466
  • Rating: 7.34 of 10
  • Votes: 208
  • Review by: Rico Hamby
  • Review rating: 7.71 of 10
  • Review Date: 2018/9/25
  • Duration: 1H25M56S in 256 kbps (22.4 MB)
  • Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-07
  • You can listen to this audiobook in formats: AIFF, MPEG4, WAV, FLAC, MP3, MPEG-4 DST, WMA (compression RAR, EML, TAR.7Z, TAR, ZIP, TAR.BZ2, AZW)
  • Total pages original book: 112
  • Includes a PDF summary of 11 pages
  • Duration of the summary (audio): 7M52S (2.2 MB)
  • Description or summary of the audiobook: In this new photographic album from Pen & Sword, transport historian and photographer Jim Blake presents a fascinating selection of pictures of a form of public transport now sadly missing from Britain's streets trolleybuses. Most British trolleybus systems flourished in the inter-war years, particularly the 1930s. The biggest fleet was that of London Transport. But for the Second World War, it would have been bigger still if South London's trams had been replaced by trolleybuses, as intended. London, however, replaced these with motor-buses instead, influencing other operators to abandon their trolleybuses, too. By the 1960s, their demise was well under way. Fortunately, during that decade, Jim travelled throughout England and Wales, photographing buses, coaches, steam locomotives and trolleybuses. This book features the latter, beginning with their final weeks in London, then continuing to places as diverse as Bournemouth and Cardiff, Bradford and Maidstone. Most pictures have never been published before. Taken between 1962 and 1968, they transport the reader back to a wonderful land with many quaint forms of public transport, particularly trolleybuses!What will strike readers is their variety of liveries, manufacturers and so on.Britain's last trolleybuses ran in 1972. Despite many other world cities having modern trolleybus systems today, it will be a long time before they return to our streets, if ever! How sad when our cities are polluted by vehicles powered by internal combustion engines: trolleybuses are completely pollution-free!
  • Other categories, genre or collection: Motor Cars, Buses, Trams & Commercial
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  • Format: Hardback
  • Approximate value: 30.14 USD
  • Dimensions: 216x282x19.05mm
  • Weight: 793.79g
  • Printed by: Pen & Sword Transport
  • Published in: Barnsley, United Kingdom

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