Transport

Photographs from the 1920's to Modern Day.

Author: Andrew Jenkinson

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 104pp. 21.5cm by 28.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399092319

Weight: 711g

Original Price: £25.00

Author: Peter Waller

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 136pp. 22cm by 27cm.

ISBN: 9781399022521

Weight: 930g

Original Price: £30.00

This volume – one of four that examines the history of all trolleybus operators in the British Isles – focuses on London and the other systems of south-east England.

Author: Peter Waller.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 136pp. 22x28.5x1.4cm.

ISBN: 9781526770646

Weight: 950g.

Original Price: £30.00

Bradford and Leeds were the pioneering systems in the country and, more than six decades later, it was Bradford that was to the final bastion of this once important form of transport.

Author: Peter Waller.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 142pp. 22x28.5x1.4cm.

ISBN: 9781526770608

Weight: 950g.

Original Price: £30.00

This book looks at almost 200 trams when they were in service, through historic photographs, prior to their withdrawal and eventual preservation.

Author: Peter Waller.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 160pp. 22cm by 28cm.

ISBN: 9781526739018

Weight: 940

Original Price: £25.00

A pictorial history - with detailed captions - to the many electric trams that were to operate with more than one tramway during the period up to the closure of the Glasgow system in 1962.

Author: Peter Waller.

Publisher: Pen & Sword.

Hardback. 184pp. 21cm by 28cm.

ISBN: 9781526738974

Weight: 1135

Original Price: £25.00

From Minehead to Poole harbour via Lands End.

Author: Andrew Bartlett.

Publisher: Pen & Sword.

Hardback. 152pp. 18cm by 25cm.

ISBN 9781526755421

Original Price: £25.00

A Fleet History, 1984–2020. Formed in 1984, following the decision by the National Bus Company to divide the Eastern Counties Omnibus Company Ltd into smaller parts, Cambus Holdings became responsible for operating services in Cambridgeshire and West Suffolk.

Author: David Beddall.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 231pp. 22x28.5x1.8cm.

ISBN: 9781526781000

Weight: 1.25kg.

Original Price: £35.00

This book brings back to life South Coast communities, streetscapes, landscapes, shop fronts, road signs and the colourful buses of the Southdown.

Author: Glyn Kraemer-Johnson

Publisher: Capital Transport.

Hardback. 96pp. 22cm by 25cm.

ISBN 9781854143358

Original Price: £19.95

Relive an era of efficient public transport with cheap fares and services which ran on time in all weathers.

Author: Robert J Harley.

Publisher: Heathfield Publishing..

Hardback. 112pp. 22cm by 30cm.

ISBN 9781854144386

Weight.

Original Price: £25.00

An Idea Ahead of its Time - The Gas Tram was a short-lived phenomenon which briefly seemed to herald a new way forward in tramcar design, replacing horses and steam locomotives on the streets with quieter and smoother travel.

Author: John Hannavy

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 208pp. 22cm by 28.5cm.

ISBN: 9781399096010

Weight: 1.1kg

Original Price: £35.00

This book has been commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the closure of Glasgow’s remarkable tram system, when over 250,000 people lined the city streets on 4 September 1962 to watch a final procession of some 20 trams representing different periods in the history of the undertaking. 

Author: Martin Jenkins, Geoff Price.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 192pp. 25.5x24.5x1.6cm.

ISBN: 9781526794383

Weight: 1.15kg.

Original Price: £35.00

Power without control is unusable power, and long after the invention of the steam engine, finding ways of applying that power to tasks where consistency was of paramount importance was the 'Holy Grail' which many steam engineers sought to find.

Author: John Hannavy

Publisher:Pen & Sword

Hardback. 160pp. 22cm by 29cm.

ISBN 9781399090889

Weight.1.085kg

Original Price: £12.99

Mainstay of London Buses Ltd’s fleet into the 1990s, London’s MCW Metrobus fleet of M class remained almost completely intact by the time of privatisation in the autumn of 1994. In the hands of seven new companies thereafter, there followed multiple new liveries and new identities, but it wasn’t until the end of the decade when this account takes up their story, that withdrawals commenced in the face of new low-floor double-deck buses.

Author: Matthew Wharmby

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 192pp. 22.5cm by 29cm.

ISBN 9781526749673

Weight. 1230g

Original Price: £30.00

Already depleted by withdrawals in the London Buses Ltd era, the Leyland Titan fleet of T class was divided upon privatisation between three new companies; London Central, Stagecoach East London and Stagecoach Selkent. Together with a host of smaller companies operating second-hand acquisitions, the Titans’ declining years between 1998 and 2003 are explored in this pictorial account that encompasses both standard day-to-day routes, emergency deployments and rail replacement services.

Author: Matthew Wharmby

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 112pp. 22cm by 29cm.

ISBN 9781526749710

Weight. 0.880Kg

Original Price: £25.00

An in-depth study of the 20th century landmarks of Leicester's Trams and Buses,

Author: Andrew Bartlett.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 245pp. 22cm by 28cm.

ISBN 9781526732491

Original Price: £30.00

In 1979, fresh from its general election victory, the Conservative government began formulating plans to deregulate bus services and privatise the companies operating them in England, Scotland and Wales. London was not to be excluded, so from the outset, London Buses was broken up into several areas and from 1985, a tendering system was introduced which permitted other operators to bid for the routes.

Author: Andrew Bartlett

Publisher:Pen & Sword

Hardback. 256pp. 22cm by 29cm.

ISBN 9781526755469

Weight.450g

Original Price: £12.99

Transport systems are the lifeblood of all great cities and this is certainly true of London. As far back as Roman times, their city Londinium was the hub of a network of roads leading out to all the major centres of the time.

Author: Anthony Burton.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 181pp. 17.5x25x1.4cm.

ISBN: 9781399085861

Weight: 750g.

Original Price: £25.00

1970 was a significant year in the history of London buses, for on January 1, the Country Area was taken out of the control of London Transport.

Author: Michael H.C. Baker.

Publisher: Silver Link Books.

Paperback. 64pp. 23cm by 17cm.

ISBN 9781857945652

Weight.

Original Price: £8.00

Versatile and personable, the Trident in all its forms lasted two decades in London, the last examples coming off service in 2020.

Author: Mathew Wharmby.

Publisher: Pen & Sword.

Hardback. 280pp. 21cm by 28cm.

ISBN: 9781526786913

Weight: 1425

Original Price: £35.00

A Decade of Change and Transition.

Author: Jim Blake

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 176pp. 21.5cm by 28cm.

ISBN: 9781473867857

Weight: 1.03kg

Original Price: £25.00

Britain's post war Tram networks of the Midlands and Southern England.

Author: Peter Waller.

Publisher: Pen & Sword.

Hardback. 168pp. 22cm by 28cm.

ISBN 9781473871144

Original Price: £25.00

Both road and race bikes are looked at in detail, with the book written in a fashion that makes it equally suitable for both reference or as a coffee table tome for the enthusiast.

Author: Brian Long

Publisher: Veloce

Hardback. 176pp. 21.5cm by 25cm.

ISBN: 9781787112155

Weight: 828g

Original Price: £35.00

The final volume in the ‘Regional Tramways’ series focuses on the history of tram operation in the London area.

Author: Peter Waller.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 165pp. 22.4x28.5x1.6cm.

ISBN: 9781473871182

Weight: 1.1kg.

Original Price: £25.00

The story of a family - owned independent bus company.

Author: David Wilder & Barrie Hedges.

Publisher: Pen & Sword.

Hardback. 192pp. 22cm by 28cm.

ISBN 9781526760340

Original Price: £30.00

The National Rifle Association, its Tramways and the London & South Western Railway.

Author: Christopher Bunch

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 321pp. 22cm by 28.5cm.

ISBN: 9781473891746

Weight: 1.468kg

Original Price: £40.00

Good quality photographs, useful to modellers, new information and informative captions.

Author: Reiss O'Neill.

Publisher: Pen & Sword.

Hardback. 288pp. 24cm by 19cm.

ISBN: 9781473821040

Weight: 1112

Original Price: £35.00

Weird and Wonderful Ways of Travelling by Road, Rail, Air and Sea

Author: John Wade.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 196pp. 18x25x2cm.

ISBN: 9781399003971

Weight: 750g.

Original Price: £20.00

This book takes readers on a spectacular journey across North and Mid-Wales in the thirty-year period from the mid-1950s onwards.

Author: Martin Jenkins, Charles Roberts.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 192pp. 25.5x24.6x1.6cm.

ISBN: 9781526787071

Weight: 1.05kg.

Original Price: £30.00

A frleet history 1921-2014.

Author: David Beddall.

Publisher: Pen & Sword.

Hardback. 224pp. 21cm by 28cm.

ISBN: 9781526755544

Weight: 1174

Original Price: £30.00

There is a head-turning charm about heritage transport. And where better to showcase such preserved delights than glorious Devon? This book is an affectionate endeavour to celebrate a bygone era. One kept vividly alive, and on the road, by the dedication of owner enthusiasts.

Author: Roger Malone

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 126pp. 22.5cm by 29cm.

ISBN 9781526748317

Weight. 902g

Original Price: £9.99

Walter Alexander was registered on May 23, 1924 and for many years was the largest bus company in Scotland.

Author: Henry Conn.

Publisher: Silver Link Publishing

Hardback. 128pp. 24cm by 17cm.

ISBN 9781857945591

Weight. 550g

Original Price: £25.00

This pictorial book will cover all three areas with views taken in 1960, featuring a number of buses from the acquired operators."

Author: Henry Conn.

Publisher: Silver Link Publishing

Hardback. 128pp. 24cm by 17cm.

ISBN 9781857945607

Weight. 552g

Original Price: £25.00

A journey in colour 1983 - 2003.

Author: Andrew Bartlett.

Publisher: Pen & Sword.

Hardback. 192pp. 22cm by 28cm.

ISBN 9781526755063

Original Price: £25.00

A survey of tramway engineers' vehicles.

Author: Peter Waller.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 152pp. 22cm by 28cm.

ISBN 9781473862234

Weight. 1039g

Original Price: £25.00