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Book Synopsis London's Low-floor Buses in Exile by : David Beddall
Download or read book London's Low-floor Buses in Exile written by David Beddall and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2023-10-15 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wonderful collection of 180 photographs, some previously unpublished, celebrating the London's Low-floor Buses in Exile.
Book Synopsis London's Exiled Buses by : Keith A. Jenkinson
Download or read book London's Exiled Buses written by Keith A. Jenkinson and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating, lavishly illustrated look at London buses that have found service in other parts of the country.
Book Synopsis London Buses in Exile by : Kevin McCormack
Download or read book London Buses in Exile written by Kevin McCormack and published by . This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is a revealing pictorial survey of the great variety of ex-London Transport PSVs that found service outside the Metropolis.
Book Synopsis The London DMS Bus by : Matthew (Matt) Wharmby
Download or read book The London DMS Bus written by Matthew (Matt) Wharmby and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2016-11-30 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vilified as the great failure of all London Transport bus classes, the DMS family of Daimler Fleetline was more like an unlucky victim of straitened times. Desperate to match staff shortages with falling demand for its services during the late 1960s, London Transport was just one organization to see nationwide possibilities and savings in legislation that was about to permit double-deck one-man-operation and partially fund purpose-built vehicles. However, prohibited by circumstances from developing its own rear-engined Routemaster (FRM) concept, LT instituted comparative trials between contemporary Leyland Atlanteans and Daimler Fleetlines.The latter came out on top, and massive orders followed. The first DMSs entering service on 2 January 1971. In service, however, problems quickly manifested. Sophisticated safety features served only to burn out gearboxes and gulp fuel. The passengers, meanwhile, did not appreciate being funnelled through the DMS's recalcitrant automatic fare-collection machinery only to have to stand for lack of seating. Boarding speeds thus slowed to a crawl, to the extent that the savings made by laying off conductors had to be negated by adding more DMSs to converted routes! Second thoughts caused the ongoing order to be amended to include crew-operated Fleetlines (DMs), noise concerns prompted the development of the B20 quiet bus variety, and brave attempts were made to fit the buses into the time-honored system of overhauling at Aldenham Works, but finally the problems proved too much. After enormous expenditure, the first DMSs began to be withdrawn before the final RTs came out of service, and between 1979 and 1983 all but the B20s were sold as is widely known, the DMSs proved perfectly adequate with provincial operators once their London features had been removed. OPO was to become fashionable again in the 1980s as the politicians turned on London Transport itself, breaking it into pieces in order to sell it off. Not only did the B20 DMSs survive to something approaching a normal lifespan, but the new cheap operators awakening with the onset of tendering made use of the type to undercut LT, and it was not until 1993 that the last DMS operated.
Download or read book The Exiled written by Lucy Fulford and published by Coronet. This book was released on 2023-08-31 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A poignant exploration of empire, community and family' AANCHAL MALHOTRA 'Full of the sights, smells and tastes of what most remember as a lost utopia' SPECTATOR Uganda, August 1972. President Idi Amin makes a shocking pronouncement: the country's South Asian population is being expelled. They have ninety days to leave. After packing scant possessions and countless memories, 50,000 people stepped into the unknown, with more than 28,000 of them arriving in the UK in airlifts to begin new lives here. But their incredible stories have, until know, remained hidden. More than fifty years on, The Exiled draws on first-hand interviews and testimonies, including from the author's family, to reveal a time of painful alienation and incredible courage. Journeying across continents and decades, this sweeping work of reportage illuminates an essential chapter in post-colonial history - and its continued impact today. 'Full of humanity and touching detail' TOM PARFITT 'Deeply personal and powerfully eloquent' CAROLINE EDEN
Book Synopsis London's Buses by : London Regional Transport (Agency)
Download or read book London's Buses written by London Regional Transport (Agency) and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis England for All Seasons by : Susan Allen Toth
Download or read book England for All Seasons written by Susan Allen Toth and published by . This book was released on 1998-03 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With "England for All Seasons", Susan Allen Toth entices even experienced London visitors into exciting new adventures, from sharing the most scenic London bus routes to bargain-hunting to personal walking tours of eccentric museums. Toth illuminates the nooks and crannies of a vibrant culture--the real England that every Anglophile dreams of finding.
Book Synopsis German-Speaking Exiles in Great Britain by :
Download or read book German-Speaking Exiles in Great Britain written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-12-14 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis London's Buses by : London Transport Buses
Download or read book London's Buses written by London Transport Buses and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Defending London written by Mike Osborne and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For two thousand years London has been at the heart of Britain’s development as a nation, providing a focus for its political life. The military element is now usually visible only through the pageantry which attends royal occasions, but this masks a more serious underlying intent. Frequently the target for both foreign invaders and domestic factions, it has been required to defend itself against everything from seaborne raiders to aerial bombardment and the threat of nuclear war. At the same time, the direction of military affairs has been centred on London, along with the military infrastructure of barracks, depots, magazines, dockyards and munitions factories. The evidence for much of this can be seen in the landscape, from the mediaeval Tower of London and the underground nuclear citadels in the urban centre, to the royal palaces, moated sites, airfields and anti-invasion defences in the suburbs and the green belt. This book describes the various elements of London’s military heritage, and places them in their historical and social context. From the castles and strong-houses of the mediaeval and Tudor monarchs and statesmen, to the pseudo-fortresses of the Victorian militia and rifle volunteers; the airfields of the anti-Zeppelin fighters of the Royal Flying Corps, and the Battle of Britain bases of the RAF, to the pillboxes of the defences against invasion in 1940, and the anti-nuclear defences of the Cold War and beyond.
Book Synopsis London Buses Before the War by : Ken Glazier
Download or read book London Buses Before the War written by Ken Glazier and published by Capital Transport. This book was released on 1995 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis East London Buses: The Twenty-First Century by : Malcolm Batten
Download or read book East London Buses: The Twenty-First Century written by Malcolm Batten and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2019-04-15 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a wealth of previously unpublished images, Malcolm Batten observes what has changed in the East London bus scene since the turn of the century.
Book Synopsis Omnibus by : London Transport Museum
Download or read book Omnibus written by London Transport Museum and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "2014 is Year of the Bus. This book is a comprehensive social history of how the London bus has worked in, and for, the capital for the last century and a half. We discuss the design, development and operation of buses in the city and its surrounding countryside, and consider how the bus has served Londoners from all over the world, and shaped London."--Back cover.
Download or read book The Other Shore written by Xingjian Gao and published by Chinese University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Gao Xingjian won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2000, he became the only Chinese writer to achieve such international acclaim. The Chinese University Press is the first publisher of his work in the English language. Indeed, "The Other Shore" is one of the few works by the author available in English today. "The Other Shore: Plays by Gao Xingjian" contains five of Gaos most recent works: "The Other Shore" (1986), "Between Life and Death" (1991), "Dialogue and Rebuttal "(1992), "Nocturnal Wanderer" (1993), and "Weekend Quartet" (1995). With original imagery and in beautiful language, these plays illuminate the realities of life, death, sex, loneliness, and exile. The plays also show the dramatists idea of the tripartite actor, a process by which the actor neutralizes himself and achieves a disinterested observation of his self in performance. An introduction by the translator describes the dramatist and his view on drama.
Download or read book London Buses written by Ian Cowley and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis London's Buses: The Colourful Era 1985-2005 by : Malcolm Batten
Download or read book London's Buses: The Colourful Era 1985-2005 written by Malcolm Batten and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lavishly illustrated look at the era of privatisation of London's buses before an all-red livery was imposed.
Book Synopsis The London Bendy Bus by : Matthew Wharmby
Download or read book The London Bendy Bus written by Matthew Wharmby and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2016-03-30 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 2002 and 2006 six of Londons bus companies put into service 390 articulated bendy buses on twelve routes for transport in London.rnrnDuring what turned out to be a foreshortened nine years in service, the Mercedes-Benz Citaro G buses familiar on the continent and worldwide earned an unenviable reputation in London; according to who you read and who you believed, they caught fire at the drop of a hat, they maimed cyclists, they drained revenue from the system due to their susceptibility to fare evasion, they transported already long-suffering passengers in standing crush loads like cattle and they contributed to the extinction of the Routemaster from frontline service. In short, it was often referred to as the bus we hated.rnrnThis account is an attempt by a long-time detractor of the bendy buses to set the vehicles in their proper context not quite to rehabilitate them, but to be as fair as is possible towards a mode of transport which felt about as un-British as could be.
