Air Transport

Each volume in this new series is a collection of seminal articles on a theme of central importance in the study of transport history, selected from the leading journal in the field. Each contains between ten and a dozen articles selected by a distinguished scholar, as well as an authoritative new introduction by the volume editor. Individually they will form an essential foundation to the study of the history of a mode of transport; together they will make an incomparable library of the best modern research in the field.

List of contents

Contents: Introduction; Aspects of commercial air transport history, Peter J Lyth; Aviation and the State: the Grahame-White Aviation Company, 1912-23, A D George; The Daimler Airway: April 1922-March 1924, E Birkhead; The Financial Failure of British Air Transport Companies, E Birkhead; Imperial Airways, 1924-40, A J Quinn-Harkin; British Airways Ltd, 1935-40, Robin Higham; The New Road to the Isles: Highland Airways and Scottish Airways, 1933-39, Alec J Robertson; The Bermuda Conference and Anglo-American Aviation Relations at the End of the Second World War, David Mackenzie; 'A Multiplicity of Instruments': the 1946 Decision to Create a Separate British European Airline and its Effect on Civil Aircraft Production, Peter J Lyth; Nationalisation and the independent airlines in the United Kingdom, 1945-51, B K Humphreys; Trooping and the Development of the British Independent Airlines, B K Humphreys; Helicopter Airlines in the United States, 1945-75, A Gerald Peters and Donald F Wood; A Short History of London's Airports, P W Brooks.

About the author

Peter J. Lyth

Product details

• Assisted by: Peter J Lyth (Editor), Peter J. Lyth (Editor), Lyth Peter J. (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.11.1996
• EAN: 9781859283097
• ISBN: 978-1-85928-309-7
• No. of pages: 183
• Weight: 476 g
• Series: Studies in Transport History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, TRANSPORTATION / Aviation / Piloting & Flight Instruction, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Transportation, Social and cultural history, History of engineering and technology, Transport industries, History of engineering & technology, Aerospace & Air Transport Industries, Aviation skills / piloting, Aviation skills and piloting