Rise and Rise of Road Transport, 1700-1990

Klappentext Most books about Britain's transport history have concentrated on canals and railways. It is now clear that a great deal of traffic went by road even before turnpikes! and that goods as well as passenger services were much more highly developed than previously thought. Development of road transport continued during the Canal and Railway Ages and expanded with the advent of more efficient but more environmentally damaging motor vehicles. This book will be an essential book not only for transport specialists but also for genealogists! geographers! motor engineers! and those interested in technical change. Zusammenfassung This book is an important survey of the new evidence and arguments regarding road transport over the past three centuries. It sheds new light on the importance of horse-drawn freight in the eighteenth century! offsets the undue attention paid to the railways in the nineteenth century! and stresses that motor transport's present great importance only dates from the 1950s. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Goods transport to the 1830s; 2. Passenger transport to the 1830s; 3. Road transport in the railway age; 4. Motor transport between the wars; 5. The motorway age; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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• Authors: T. C. Barker, T. C. Gerhold Barker, T.c. Gerhold Barker, Theo Barker, Theo (University of London) Barker, Theo (University of London) Gerhold Barker, Theo Gerhold Barker, Economic History Society, Dorian Gerhold, Dorian (House of Commons) Gerhold
• Assisted by: Maurice Kirby (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.09.1995
• EAN: 9780521557733
• ISBN: 978-0-521-55773-3
• No. of pages: 102
• Series: New Studies in Economic and Social History; New Studies in Economic and So
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries