Traffic and Transport - An Economic History of Pickfords

List of contents

1. The Background: The Road Carrying Trade 2. The Business Established 3. Back From the Brink: 1800-47 4. Pickfords and Road Transport, 1750-1850 5. Pickfords Canal Carrier, 1785-1850 6. Railways, 1825-47: Hopes Raised and Dashed 7. The Railway Agent, 1847-1900 8. Rail, Road and Reconstruction, 1900-33 9. From Railway Ownership to Nationalisation

About the author

Gerald L. Turnbull

Summary

This book, fist published in 1979, traces the growth of Britain’s inland transportation systems, chiefly for goods traffic, by road, canal and railway, from the early seventeenth century to the eve of nationalisation in 1947. The book focuses on the history of Pickfords, long a prominent member of the transport industry.

Product details

• Authors: Gerald L. Turnbull, Gerard L. Turnbull
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.04.2017
• EAN: 9781138637917
• ISBN: 978-1-138-63791-7
• No. of pages: 206
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: Transport Economics; Routledge Library Editions: Transport Economics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; Economics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Transportation, Transport industries