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BRITISH TRAMCAR MANUFACTURERS

British Westinghouse and Metropolitan-Vickers

- May 2008
by David Voice
ISBN 978-1-874422-68-6
Book 17.6cm x 25cm Softback 110 Pages 182 B&W Photographs
Publisher: Adam Gordon
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A detailed review of the tramway business of the British Westinghouse Company and its successor Metropolitan-Vickers. Details of the technical innovations, in particular the breaking systems, are all explored in this comprehensive reference work, with many previously unpublished archive photographs showing the trams in action and the workshops of the company

Contents:

  • Introduction
  • 1 – George Westinghouse
  • 2 – British Westinghouse
  • 3 – The tramway products of British Westinghouse and Metrovick
  • 4 – Controllers and motors
  • 5 – Brakes
  • 6 – Firs World War Tramcars
  • 7 – Trafford Park Tramways
  • 8 – Metropolitan Vickers Electrical Company Limited
  • 9 – The Decline and fall of George Westinghouse
  • Appendices
  • Acknowledgements
  • Key to Abbreviations
  • Bibliography

Continent: Europe
Country: UK

 

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