ELECTRICITY IN TRANSPORT: OVER SIXTY YEARS' EXPERIENCE 1883-1950
Written by H.H. Andrews
Published by The English Electric Company Limited
in 1951
- Categorised in:
- TRANSPORT
- RAILWAYS
- COMPANY HISTORY
- ELECTRICITY
- TRAMS
- TROLLEYBUS
ELECTRICITY IN TRANSPORT: OVER SIXTY YEARS' EXPERIENCE 1883-1950
Written by H.H. Andrews.
Stock no. 1830821
1st.
1951.
Hardback.
Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.
This book gives the story of the achievements of the English Electric Group in the application of electricity to transport. Blue cloth boards, gilt titles. B/w photos. 183 pages. Titles are fadedbut boards are clean. Light browning to text block and endpapers. Else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is worn at corners with closed tears and is a little grubby; foxing to verso. Musty odour present.
Front cover
Contents
- The ENGLISH ELECTRIC Company Limited
- Its special position in the world of electric traction. Historical note
- Electricity in Transport
- Introduction
- The Early Days of Electric Traction
- Until 1918
- Railway Electrification
- Diesel-Electric Traction
- Tramways
- Trolleybuses
- Industrial and Mining Locomotives
- Appendix A
- Electric Railway Traction Equipment supplied by The ENGLISH ELECTRIC Company Limited and its predecessors 1883-1950
- Appendix B
- Diesel-Electric Railway Traction Equipment supplied by The ENGLISH ELECTRIC Company Ltd
- Appendix C
- Mercury Arc Rectifier Equipment supplied by The ENGLISH ELECTRIC Company Ltd for Traction Supply
- Appendix D
- Photographs of Typical Driving Components
- Appendix E
- Photographs of Typical Rail Traction Diesel Engines
- Appendix F
- Photographs of Typical Motors, Generators and Motor-Generator Sets