Wales Isle Of Man Ireland Post 1945

Author : Peter Waller
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473861926
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wales, Isle of Man & Ireland, Post 1945 written by Peter Waller and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2018-05-30 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the fourth book in a series that covers the history of the tram systems of the British Isles post-war. It covers the networks in Wales, the Isle of Man and Ireland.Peter Waller examines the history of the tramways in Ireland, Wales and on the Isle of Man. With three different legislative frameworks, the history of the systems covered are very different from the surviving horse tramway at Douglas on the Isle of Man through to the new Luas system operating in Dublin.With an overview that provides the background to all of the tramways that once operated plus the only tramway in the Channel Islands alongside a comprehensive account of those systems that survived after 1945, the book is a fascinating portrait of the changing streetscapes of cities like Belfast and Cardiff as well as the remarkable survivor post-war, such as the Bessbrook & Newry and the Llandudno & Colwyn Bay.Fully illustrated throughout with mono and colour illustrations many of which have never been published before as well as system maps, the book will be of interest to all with a history of trams past and present in the British Isles.

Author : Peter Waller
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN 13 : 1526738988
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Britain's Second-Hand Trams written by Peter Waller and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2021-05-30 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the history of Britain’s electric tramcar fleets, many thousands were manufactured of which the vast majority saw out their operational life with a single owner. However, for several hundred there was to be a second – if not, in certain cases, a third – career with a new operator. Almost from the dawn of the electric era in the late 19th century tramcars were loaned or bought and sold between operators. The reasons for this were multifarious. Sometimes the aspirations of the original owners for traffic proved wildly optimistic and the fleet was downsized to reflect better the actual passenger levels. War was a further cause as operators sought to strengthen their fleets to cater for unexpectedly high level of demand or to replace trams destroyed by enemy action. For other operators, modernization represented an opportunity to sell older cars while, certainly from the 1930s, a number of operators – such as Aberdeen, Leeds and Sunderland – took advantage of the demise of tramways elsewhere to supplement their fleet with trams that were being withdrawn but which still had many years of useful operational life in them. The process was to continue right through to the mid-1950s when Glasgow took advantage of the demise of the once-extensive Liverpool system to purchase a number of the streamlined bogie bogie cars that were built in the late 1930s. In this book the author provides a pictorial history – with detailed captions – to the many electric trams that were to operate with more than one tramway during the period up to the closure of the closure of the Glasgow system in 1962.

Author : Peter Waller
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN 13 : 152673902X
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Britain's Preserved Trams written by Peter Waller and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2021-10-30 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is almost 100 years since the first tram was preserved in Britain, in the century since then a great variety of trams have been saved from tramway systems small and large. Some trams were purchased directly out of service and others were acquired after many years alternative usage, some being summer houses or homes, while others were used on farms or allotments where they served as sheds and out buildings, before being lovingly restored over many years. The story of tram preservation is not wholly positive, in the early days many trams suffered from being stored in the open at unsafe sites, where the historic vehicles were often subjected to acts of vandalism and suffered badly from the weather. This changed to a large extent in 1959, with the acquisition of the site of the future National Tramway Museum at Crich in Derbyshire,, where a comprehensive collection of trams from all over Britain and also foreign tram networks has been assembled, to secure a collection of tramcars for future generations. There is also today fine collections of trams in other museums in Britain and Ireland, which cover much of the rich history of this once common form of public transport. This book looks at almost 200 of these trams when they were in service, through historic photographs, prior to their withdrawal and eventual preservation.

Author : William Harbutt Dawson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After-war Problems written by William Harbutt Dawson and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Florence E. Parker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
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Download or read book Cooperative Associations in Europe and Their Possibilities for Post-war Reconstruction written by Florence E. Parker and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ray Kipling
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752495968
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Never Turn Back: The RNLI Since the Second World War written by Ray Kipling and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2006-09-21 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The achievements of the RNLI, often romanticised, depend on ordinary people doing extraordinary things. This book tells the story of the last 50 years of the lifeboat service through the words and actions of the people involved. In the period since the Second World War, particularly from the mid-1960s, the RNLI has experienced the most rapid changes in its long history. The transition from conventional to fast lifeboats, the introduction of inshore boats and the expansion into beach rescue and sea safety have all dramatically changed the lifeboat service. Ray and Susannah's narrative draws on their personal and extensive inside knowledge plus first hand accounts of the rescues and the decisions that shaped the changing lifeboat service.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004245650
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hundred Years War (Part III) written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-07-25 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Hundred Years War: Further Considerations, sixteen essays consider various economic, legal, military, and psychological aspects of the long conflict that touched much of late-medieval Europe.

Author : WALLER PETER
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781473861916
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book REGIONAL TRAMWAYS - WALES, ISLE OF MAN AND IRELAND, POST 1945 written by WALLER PETER and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Manuel Bragança
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1782381546
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Long Aftermath written by Manuel Bragança and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its totality, the “Long Second World War”—extending from the beginning of the Spanish Civil War to the end of hostilities in 1945—has exerted enormous influence over European culture. Bringing together leading historians, sociologists, and literary and film scholars, this broadly interdisciplinary volume investigates Europeans’ individual and collective memories and the ways in which they have shaped the continent’s cultural heritage. Focusing on the major combatant nations—Spain, Britain, France, Italy, Germany, Poland, and Russia—it offers thoroughly contextualized explorations of novels, memoirs, films, and a host of other cultural forms to illuminate European public memory.

Author : Stephen Conway
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191542571
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The British Isles and the War of American Independence written by Stephen Conway and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2000-03-02 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines a hitherto neglected aspect of the War of American Independence, providing the first wide-ranging account of the impact of this eighteenth-century conflict upon the politics, economy, society and culture of the British Isles. The author examines the level of military participation - which was much greater than is usually appreciated - and explores the war's effects on subjects as varied as parliamentary reform, religious toleration and attitudes to empire. The books casts new light upon recent debate about the war-waging efficiency of the British state, and on the role of war in the creation of a sense of 'Britishness'. The thematic chapters are supplemented by local case studies of six very different communities the length and breadth of the British Isles.