SHEFFIELD TRANSPORT
Written by Chas C. Hall
Published by The Transport Publishing Company
in 1977
ISBN: 0903839040
SHEFFIELD TRANSPORT
Written by Chas C. Hall.
Stock no. 1828509
1st.
1977.
Hardback.
Large format.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
Tracing the story from the earliest days of stage coaches through the horse and electric trams to the modern buses, and describes the development and expansion of the Corporation's Transport Department until the formation of the South Yorkshire PTE. Large format. Blue boards, gilt titles. B/w photos and some colour photos. ISBN: 0903839040. Top & tail of spine lightly shelf-worn. Front free endpaper a little grubby. Text block a little grubby. Contents clean. Pictorial ustwerapper is lightly creased across top edge, lightly faded and a little scuffed.
Front cover
Contents
- Foreword by H.N. Kay
- Author's Introduction
- The Dawn of Public Transport
- The Horse Tramways
- The Corporation Takes Over
- Early Corporation Rolling Stock
- Mr. Fearnley Arrives
- Fleet Developments to 1914
- The First World War
- The Years of Expansion
- Sheffield's Three Bus Fleets
- The Second World War
- The Passing of the Trams
- The Years of Change
- Appendices:
- 1. Horse Bus Licences
- 2. Horse Car Fleets
- 3. Electric Car Fleet
- 4. Motor Bus Fleet
- 5. Tickets
- 6. Livery
- 7. Depots
- Photographic Credits
- Publisher's Note