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Author Gibson, Thomas

Title Road Haulage by Motor in Britain : the First Forty Years
Published Milton : Taylor and Francis, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (363 pages)
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Preface; 1 A Most important Improvement; 2 To Fill a Great Void; 3 The Coming Great Home Industry; 4 Ways and Means; 5 Wars and Rumours of Wars; 6 Keeping the Home Wheels Turning; 7 Framework of Expansion; 8 Brave New World; 9 The Roaring Twenties; 10 The Coming of the Diesel; 11 What to Do about it All; 12 Reports and The Consequences; 13 Binding Legislation; 14 Wages and Charges; 15 The End of the Beginning; Appendix I Selected Data from Commercial Motor Vehicle Specifications (1920)
Appendix II Summary of Haulage Firms listed in Roadway Goods Transport Guide, No. 1, 1931 (Selected Cities)Appendix III Selected Tables from 4th Annual Report of Licencing Authorities (1937-38); Appendix IV Selected Data from Commercial Motor Cost Tables (1921-35); Bibliography; Index
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Subject Freight and freightage-Great Britain-History-20th century
Trucking-Great Britain-History-20th century
Trucking -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
Freight and freightage -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
Freight and freightage
Trucking
Great Britain
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781351749503
1351749501