 | BLACKPOOL TRAMS, THE FIRST HALF CENTURY
1st Edition
by P.H. Abell & I. McLoughlin
ISBN 978-0-853615-03-3
Book A5 format, art paper throughout. Casebound, with a gold-blocked spine, printed endpapers and a full colour laminated colour. 224 Pages Illustrated with almost 200 photographs, maps and plans etc.
Publisher: Oakwood Press
Series: Series X
Availability: No Longer Available
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| | Taking 30 years of research, and three years to write, this is the first book to give a full detailed history of the early Blackpool tram fleet covering all trams built, from the conduit days (1885) to the year before the 'Streamliners' first arrived (1932). For the first time there are detailed notes on all liveries carried by the trams. The 'Standard' tram history is broken down to each individual tram. There is also a complete record of all works and illuminated cars constructed or converted from the 1885-1932 fleet. This book is an essential new work for the tramway and transport historian and tramway modeller alike. Contents:
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- Introduction
- The First Electric Street Tramway in the Land
- Into the Twentieth Century
- The 1885 Conduit Fleet
- Lancaster ‘Palace’ Trams
- Large Promenade Cars - The ‘Dreadnoughts’
- Marton ‘Box Cars’
- Hurst, Nelson ‘Motherwells’
- ‘De Luxe’ Four Wheelers
- ‘De Luxe’ Bogie Cars
- The Toastracks
- Ex-London United Tramways’X’ Class
- Fleetwood ‘Box Cars’
- ‘Yankees’/’Glasshouses’
- ‘Vanguards’
- Fleetwood ‘Racks’
- Ex-Trailers
- The ‘Standards’
- BCT Toastracks
- The ‘Pantographs’
- Illuminated and Feature Cars
- Works, Permanent Way and Overhead Fleet
- Tram Depots & Workshops
- A Critique of Accumulator Traction
- Blackpool Corporation Tramways
- Operating Statistics 1893-1934
- Average Ages of Passenger Cars in
- Fylde Tramway Fleets,
- 3lst December at Ten-Year Intervals
- Fleet Summaries
- Postscript - Preservation
- Acknowledgements
- Bibliography
- Index
Continent: Europe
Country: England
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