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Buses And Trolleybuses Before 1919 By David Kaye Dust Jacket
Buses And Trolleybuses Before 1919 By David Kaye Dust Jacket 1972 149 Pages
PREFACE
Tins three-volume series of pocket encyclopaedias covers the history of the British bus, coach and trolleybus from their inception until 108. This book opens when the first Elizabeth was on the throne and people were just beginning to travel along the rough tracks that were the highways of those times, in vehicles which lacked springs or even any padding to their wooden seats. The coach was just about to evolve out of the cumbersome medieval carrier's waggon. We trace the development first of the coach waggon, then of the stage coach, and finally of its speedy successor and deadly rival, the mail coach. We watch the three separate attempts that were made to supersede the horse drawn bus and coach with a steam driven one, and then we concentrate on the multitude of petrol-engined motorbuses and charabancs that suddenly appeared during the ten years that led up to the First World War. Nor do we ignore the advent of the trolleybus and the various hybrids that appeared briefly on the transport scene, such as the petrol-electrics and the electric-battery buses, though of these it has only been possible to include a selection.
While researching for this early period I came across conflicting reports about some vehicles, and I have put down in print what I consider on reflection to be probably the correct data; but I am open to argument, and would welcome any constructive comments that the reader may have in this field.
I wish publicly to acknowledge my debt to a number of senior members of the omnibus enthusiast fraternity, especially to Harold Brearley, Edmund Gaffney, John C. Gillham, George Hearse, Charles E. Lee and John F. Parke, without whose help I should have been unable to complete this book. I must also pay a tribute to all those general managers and other officials of the longest established municipal, independent and nationalised bus operators who kindly supplied me with information, often having to spend much time consulting their records in order to do so.
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