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A Most Deliberate Swindle: How Edwardian Fraudsters Pulled the Plug on the Electric bus and Left our Cities Gasping for Breath [Audiobook] download free by Mick Hamer

A Most Deliberate Swindle: How Edwardian Fraudsters Pulled the Plug on the Electric bus and Left our Cities Gasping for Breath Audiobook download free by Mick Hamer
  • Listen audiobook: A Most Deliberate Swindle: How Edwardian Fraudsters Pulled the Plug on the Electric bus and Left our Cities Gasping for Breath
  • Author: Mick Hamer
  • Release date: 2018/9/14
  • Publisher: REDDOOR PUBLISHING LTD
  • Language: English
  • Genre or Collection: Transportation
  • ISBN: 9781910453421
  • Rating: 8.14 of 10
  • Votes: 758
  • Review by: Brenna Liu
  • Review rating: 8.4 of 10
  • Review Date: 2018/11/6
  • Duration: 2H59M29S in 256 kbps (48 MB)
  • Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-09
  • You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MPEG4, WMA Lossless, FLAC, MOD, WAV, WMA, MP3 (compression ZIP, BZ, RAR, IMG)
  • Total pages original book: 240
  • Includes a PDF summary of 23 pages
  • Duration of the summary (audio): 17M41S (4.6 MB)
  • Description or summary of the audiobook: That London could have had electric buses a hundred years ago is extraordinary enough, but as Mick Hamer recounts with great panache, the reason it didn't is even more extraordinary. This is a great tale, expertly told' - Michael Palin On a warm April morning in 1906 a crowd of expectant correspondents from London's leading newspapers gathered at the Hotel Cecil in the Strand to view the new wonder of the age - the electrobus. This clean, green machine was gearing up to take on the noisy, polluting petrol vehicle, which was just starting to replace the horse-drawn omnibus and surely had the potential to be a game changer in terms of what it would mean to Londoners and other city-dwellers who were already choking on petrol fumes. Disastrously though, the London Electrobus Company was in the grip of a gang of greedy and fraudulent financiers, who systematically conned shareholders, looted the company's coffers and drove the promise of the electrobus into the ground.Rammed with fascinating characters and vividly capturing the Edwardian era, A Most Deliberate Swindle uncovers one of the biggest frauds in history and reveals why a century later this historic scam has left us all gasping for breath.
  • Other categories, genre or collection: Road & Motor Vehicles, Transportation Books, 20th Century History: C 1900 To C 2000, Social & Cultural History
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  • Format: Paperback
  • Approximate value: 15.68 USD
  • Dimensions: 138x216x25.4mm
  • Weight: 340.19g
  • Printed by: Not Available
  • Published in: United Kingdom

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