Bristol's Trams: v. 21 - Hardcover

Winstone, Reece

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0900814454 ISBN 13: 9780900814457

Publisher: Reece Winstone Archive & Publishing, 1974

Synopsis

For his 21st book, Reece Winstone takes his readers for a ride down Memory Lane by Bristol tram and in so doing provides a timely journey, for 1974 is Centenary Year for the Bristol Omnibus Company Ltd., and its predecessors, the Bristol Tramways and Carriage Company Ltd. In this rare and novel departure from the author‘s firmly established technique of handling Bristol’s photographic past decade by decade, he takes us into the city’s arteries, along which Bristolians have journeyed through the years, and reminds us how they travelled in days gone by. The tram, which most people know as an electrically driven vehicle, powered from overhead wires, and steered by rails, came first as horse-drawn, then steam locomotion was tried in a bid to improve traction ability and reduce operational costs. Electric traction came to Bristol in 1895, and lasted until 1941; Mr. Winstone deals with all three forms as and when, and to the extent they happened in our city in the last 100 years.

Edition details

• Publisher: Reece Winstone Archive & Publishing
• Publication date: 1974
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0900814454
• ISBN 13: 9780900814457
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 84