British Transport. An economic survey from the seventeenth century to the twentieth
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- Author(s) Dyos, H J, & Derek H Aldcroft
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1974
- Pages 2nd ed; 437pp
- Publisher Leicester University Press
- Place Published Leicester
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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First published 1969. A scholarly but early account covering the history of transport in Britain, largely organised by mode. The chapters are: 'Transport system of preindustrial Britain'; 'Transport of the industrial revolution' - turnpikes, canals, shipping, ports, etc; 'Creation of the railway system'; 'Economics of railway operations'; 'Railways and the expansion of the economy'; 'Railways and the transport system'; 'Development of overseas shipping'; 'Organisation and profits of British shipping'; 'Transport under wartime conditions' c1914-20; 'Railways and shipping in the interwar years'; 'Development of motorised transport' - passenger, goods, roads, etc; 'Birth of civil aviation'