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  • Midland Scottish Buses

    by Walter Burt ...
    Walter Alexander first began running a motor bus service from Falkirk to Grangemouth in 1913 and services have continued in the area ever since, under the auspices of Scottish Motor Traction, Walter Alexander & Co., and latterly Midland Scottish, later privatised and now under the auspices of the First Group. Midland Scottish was the largest bus operator in the districts of Stirling, ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • Kirkcaldy Through Time

    by Walter Burt ...
    Series series Through Time
    Kirkcaldy, long known as the Lang Toun, is the biggest town in Fife. Situated on the north coast of the Firth of Forth, it began to develop as a trading port in the sixteenth century, developing further around salt, coal mining and nail making. However, it was the linoleum industry that had the biggest impact on Kirkcaldy; first brought to the town by Sir Michael Nairn in 1877, it was a major ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Fife Buses From Alexanders (Fife) to Stagecoach

    by Walter Burt ...
    Fife Scottish was established in the 1960s as part of the Scottish Bus Group, a state-owned company which operated bus services throughout Scotland. It operated buses throughout the Kingdom of Fife, serving towns such as Dunfermline, St Andrews, Glenrothes, Leven and Kirkcaldy, and did this with great success until privatisation came in the early 1990s. In this book, Walter Burt, himself a bus ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • St Andrews and North-East Fife's Buses

    by Walter Burt ...
    Stretching from Lundin Links on the north shore of the Firth of Forth around the coast to the southern shore of the Firth of Tay, North-East Fife is a largely rural area. Buses started running here in the early 1920s, operators setting up services from Anstruther in the East Neuk, Kirkcaldy and Cupar. Although the bus network continued to grow, passenger numbers were only really boosted by the end ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • Kirkcaldy & Central Fife's Trams & Buses

    by Walter Burt ...
    Kirkcaldy Corporation Tramways began to operate an electric tram service in Kirkcaldy in 1903, connecting with the Wemyss and District Tramways Company service to Leven, further up the Fife coast, which began in 1906. In 1928 Walter Alexander & Sons introduced a motor bus service in direct competition with the trams, as a result of which the tramways closed at the start of the 1930s. Following on ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Dundee's Trams and Buses

    by Walter Burt ...
    The Dundee & District Tramways Company began operating a service using a horse tram on 30 August 1877. In 1885, steam traction was introduced, and between 1900 and 1902 the system was electrified, reaching as far as Broughty Ferry and Monifeith at its height. In 1899 the company had become Dundee City Tramways, and in October 1956 the tram system was closed; all the services were now run using the ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • Rosyth Dockyard and Naval Base Through Time

    by Walter Burt ...
    Series series Through Time
    With the coming of the naval arms race with Germany, in 1903 the Admiralty decided to establish a naval base and dockyard at Rosyth, taking advantage of deep tidal water there. Construction work started in 1909 and the dockyard was finished in 1916, when the pre-Dreadnought HMS Zealandia entered dry dock there. The yard closed in 1925, reopening in 1938 when relations with Germany began to ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

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  • Planning Sustainable Transport

    by Barry Hutton ...
    Transport choices must be transformed if we are to cope with sustainability and climate change, but this can only be done if we understand how complex transport systems work. Straightforward choices are never made between one transport mode and another; door-to-door movements of both people and freight use combinations of different modes of transport.This book offers a cross-disciplinary overview ... Read more

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  • The Race Underground

    Boston, New York, and the Incredible Rivalry That Built America's First Subway

    by Doug Most ...
    In the late nineteenth century, as cities like Boston and New York grew more congested, the streets became clogged with plodding, horse-drawn carts. When the great blizzard of 1888 crippled the entire northeast, a solution had to be found. Two brothers from one of the nation's great families-Henry Melville Whitney of Boston and William Collins Whitney of New York-pursued the dream of his city ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • Belfast Taxi: A Drive Through History, One Fare at a Time

    by Lee Henry ...
    In Belfast Taxi the city’s taxi drivers – of all ages and from all backgrounds – tell their stories in their own words, covering everything from the beginnings of the public-hire and private-hire industries, to the dark days of the Troubles and the vital role taxis currently play in Belfast’s burgeoning tourist economy.Join Lee Henry as he tours the city in the company of the city’s drivers, ... Read more

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  • Ford Transit

    Fifty Years

    by Peter Lee ...
    A commemorative history of fifty years of the iconic Ford Transit van, from the launch of the first-generation Transit in 1965, right up to the present day. Covering the full range of Transit models and with over three hundred photographs (including previously unpublished pictures from Ford's picture archive), Ford Transit - Fifty Years is an ideal resource for anyone with an interest in this ... Read more

    $27.09 USD