Author: Walter Burt
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445623420
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
The History of Fife buses from 1960 to the early 1990s.
Fife Buses From Alexanders (Fife) to Stagecoach
Author: Walter Burt
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445623420
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
The History of Fife buses from 1960 to the early 1990s.
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445623420
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
The History of Fife buses from 1960 to the early 1990s.
Midland Scottish Buses
Author: Walter Burt
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445634767
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
This latest volume by Walter Burt uses a wonderful collection of period and contemporary images to tell the story of Midland Scottish and its buses
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445634767
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
This latest volume by Walter Burt uses a wonderful collection of period and contemporary images to tell the story of Midland Scottish and its buses
Dundee's Trams and Buses
Author: Walter Burt
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445634724
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
This fascinating selection of photographs gives an insight into Dundee's Trams and Buses.
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445634724
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
This fascinating selection of photographs gives an insight into Dundee's Trams and Buses.
The Buses of Northern Scottish
Author: Peter Findlay
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445615517
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
This fascinating selection of photographs gives an insight into the history of the buses operated by Northern Scottish.
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445615517
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
This fascinating selection of photographs gives an insight into the history of the buses operated by Northern Scottish.
Alexander's Path
Author: Freya Stark
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1590209184
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
A memoir of a woman’s trek through rural Turkey and its ancient history: “A sharp-eyed, thoughtful, and knowledgeable traveler.” —The New York Times In 1956, Freya Stark traveled through back-country Turkey by truck and horseback, often alone. She reached places little visited and never written about. The country people welcomed her with generosity despite their meager resources. She was traveling in time as well, and found significance in recalling the life of Alexander the Great as she retraced his journey in reverse. Twenty-two centuries earlier he was the first to dream of a united world—and Stark’s observations reflect not just this land’s physical connections to antiquity but the human longings that persist through millennia. “One of the finest travel writers of [the twentieth] century.” —The New Yorker “Stark’s forte is the ability to take the reader to an ancient site and, through the scanty remains that are left today, evoke the past of which they were a part.” —The New York Times “Describing a Jeep-and-mule trek she undertook in 1956 through the back country of Anatolia, Stark retraces (in reverse) the progress of Alexander the Great more than two millennia before . . . Stark has a wonderfully understated sense of humor.” —Kirkus Reviews
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1590209184
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
A memoir of a woman’s trek through rural Turkey and its ancient history: “A sharp-eyed, thoughtful, and knowledgeable traveler.” —The New York Times In 1956, Freya Stark traveled through back-country Turkey by truck and horseback, often alone. She reached places little visited and never written about. The country people welcomed her with generosity despite their meager resources. She was traveling in time as well, and found significance in recalling the life of Alexander the Great as she retraced his journey in reverse. Twenty-two centuries earlier he was the first to dream of a united world—and Stark’s observations reflect not just this land’s physical connections to antiquity but the human longings that persist through millennia. “One of the finest travel writers of [the twentieth] century.” —The New Yorker “Stark’s forte is the ability to take the reader to an ancient site and, through the scanty remains that are left today, evoke the past of which they were a part.” —The New York Times “Describing a Jeep-and-mule trek she undertook in 1956 through the back country of Anatolia, Stark retraces (in reverse) the progress of Alexander the Great more than two millennia before . . . Stark has a wonderfully understated sense of humor.” —Kirkus Reviews
Bus & Coach
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bus lines
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bus lines
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Lothian Buses
Author: Fred Kerr
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1399054368
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
The city of Edinburgh has always been innovative in its provision of transport ranging from the end of the 19th century when it leased land for the creation of a cable tramway network through operating the same when the lease ended in June 1919 to the current era when it trials a range of vehicles as it seeks to achieve zero carbon emissions by 2030. The company’s maintenance standards are sufficiently high that after 15 years of daily service withdrawn vehicles are valued by the second hand vehicle market and continue in further service with operators for a number of years before being scrapped. while 15 years is the normal working life with the company, this is being shortened as new vehicles are introduced to meet the zero carbon commitment. These changes have increased between 2011 and 2022 and the book illustrates them by photographs of the transport fleets – both buses and trams - operated during that period of change. The operator tries to remain loyal to one supplier but changes within the industry have resulted in a number of different vehicles being purchased; the rationale of the change in supplier is documented as the company returns to previous suppliers. The local transport scene has also seen services disrupted as operators providing services from outside the city boundaries have discontinued services leading to the city operator creating subsidiary companies to provide replacement services. These operate buses initially operated by the city fleet albeit adopting different livery styles that identify their relationship to the city’s transport network.
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1399054368
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
The city of Edinburgh has always been innovative in its provision of transport ranging from the end of the 19th century when it leased land for the creation of a cable tramway network through operating the same when the lease ended in June 1919 to the current era when it trials a range of vehicles as it seeks to achieve zero carbon emissions by 2030. The company’s maintenance standards are sufficiently high that after 15 years of daily service withdrawn vehicles are valued by the second hand vehicle market and continue in further service with operators for a number of years before being scrapped. while 15 years is the normal working life with the company, this is being shortened as new vehicles are introduced to meet the zero carbon commitment. These changes have increased between 2011 and 2022 and the book illustrates them by photographs of the transport fleets – both buses and trams - operated during that period of change. The operator tries to remain loyal to one supplier but changes within the industry have resulted in a number of different vehicles being purchased; the rationale of the change in supplier is documented as the company returns to previous suppliers. The local transport scene has also seen services disrupted as operators providing services from outside the city boundaries have discontinued services leading to the city operator creating subsidiary companies to provide replacement services. These operate buses initially operated by the city fleet albeit adopting different livery styles that identify their relationship to the city’s transport network.
A-Z of British Bus Bodies
Author: James Taylor
Publisher: Crowood
ISBN: 1847976395
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
A-Z of British Bus Bodies sets out to offer a first port of call for anyone with an interest in those who built bus and coach bodies in Britain and Ireland between 1919 and 1975. From charabanc to service bus, from luxury coach to municipal double-decker, the sheer variety of public service vehicle (PSV) bodies is astonishing. The alphabetical listing of British bus body builders between 1919 - 1975 covers the well-known larger companies and small local companies, and is illustrated with period and modern images, including contemporary advertising material. It includes a substantial introduction looking at operators of the period, the body building process and the development of bus body building throughout the period. A comprehensive guide to bus bodies 1919-1975 and a valuable reference work for the bus enthusiast. Superbly illustrated with 300 colour and black & white photographs including period and modern images and contemporary advertising material. James Taylor has been researching and writing about motoring history for over thirty years and has been interested in classic buses since childhood.
Publisher: Crowood
ISBN: 1847976395
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
A-Z of British Bus Bodies sets out to offer a first port of call for anyone with an interest in those who built bus and coach bodies in Britain and Ireland between 1919 and 1975. From charabanc to service bus, from luxury coach to municipal double-decker, the sheer variety of public service vehicle (PSV) bodies is astonishing. The alphabetical listing of British bus body builders between 1919 - 1975 covers the well-known larger companies and small local companies, and is illustrated with period and modern images, including contemporary advertising material. It includes a substantial introduction looking at operators of the period, the body building process and the development of bus body building throughout the period. A comprehensive guide to bus bodies 1919-1975 and a valuable reference work for the bus enthusiast. Superbly illustrated with 300 colour and black & white photographs including period and modern images and contemporary advertising material. James Taylor has been researching and writing about motoring history for over thirty years and has been interested in classic buses since childhood.
Kirkcaldy & Central Fife's Trams & Buses
Author: Walter Burt
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445611643
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
Walter Burt explores the history of tram and bus services in Kirkcaldy and the surrounding area.
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445611643
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
Walter Burt explores the history of tram and bus services in Kirkcaldy and the surrounding area.
Voices of Scottish Journalists
Author: Ian MacDougall
Publisher: Birlinn
ISBN: 0857906135
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 993
Book Description
Newspaper journalism is a romantic profession. The men and women who wrote for newspapers in the twentieth century started work in a 'Hold the front page!' atmosphere: hot metal, clicking typewriters and inky fingers. In this fascinating collection, the latest in the Scottish Working People's History Trust series, Ian MacDougall has captured the memories of 22 veteran journalists from a wide range of newspapers all over Scotland, some local, some national. The earliest entrant started work in 1929, just before the Great Depression, the latest in the mid 1950s. Their accounts, like so much of oral history, describe a physical world we have almost lost sight of since the computer revolution. But it was a different social world too: it would be unusual for school leavers today to start work as 'copy-boys' running out for cigarettes or filling gluepots for their scary older colleagues. Journalists had to turn their hands to anything from flower shows to air raids, from Hess's landing near Eaglesham to royal visits; and women often had to fight their corner to get started as young reporters. As journalist Neal Ascherson says in his foreword, the book contains 'a swathe of Scottish social history': virtually all these journalists made their way from humble backgrounds, drawn by the desire for an exciting rather than a safe job - and above all one full of human interest.
Publisher: Birlinn
ISBN: 0857906135
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 993
Book Description
Newspaper journalism is a romantic profession. The men and women who wrote for newspapers in the twentieth century started work in a 'Hold the front page!' atmosphere: hot metal, clicking typewriters and inky fingers. In this fascinating collection, the latest in the Scottish Working People's History Trust series, Ian MacDougall has captured the memories of 22 veteran journalists from a wide range of newspapers all over Scotland, some local, some national. The earliest entrant started work in 1929, just before the Great Depression, the latest in the mid 1950s. Their accounts, like so much of oral history, describe a physical world we have almost lost sight of since the computer revolution. But it was a different social world too: it would be unusual for school leavers today to start work as 'copy-boys' running out for cigarettes or filling gluepots for their scary older colleagues. Journalists had to turn their hands to anything from flower shows to air raids, from Hess's landing near Eaglesham to royal visits; and women often had to fight their corner to get started as young reporters. As journalist Neal Ascherson says in his foreword, the book contains 'a swathe of Scottish social history': virtually all these journalists made their way from humble backgrounds, drawn by the desire for an exciting rather than a safe job - and above all one full of human interest.