Artikelname: Belfast's Lost Tramways
Artikelbeschreibung: By the latter half of the nineteenth century industrial expansion meant that Belfast was the fastest growing town in the UK. Suburb after suburb sprang up to house the workers of new industries such as shipbuilding, machine manufacturing and linen production, and to service these new areas it soon became clear that tramways were needed to take these workers to their places of employment. At first horse-trams were used with a number of different companies in operation, but in 1905 the whole system was electrified and taken over by the Belfast Corporation. The book takes the story from there and provides a history of the system until the last trams were replaced by motor buses in 1954. Fifty-four period photographs are included - many very rare - showing the city in a heyday of streets empty of traffic except for trams and horse-drawn vehicles. The photographs also detail the changes that have taken place to the city's architecture over the years and many long-gone buildings - such as the old LMS railway station and Robb's five-storey department store - are featured.

Artikelname: Bus Operators 1970:North West England and Yorkshire
Artikelbeschreibung: At the start of the 1970s, the British bus and coach industry was radically different to that of today. Most large urban areas, as well as many of the country’s smaller towns, still possessed municipally-owned bus operations. The trolleybus was still operational in a small number of places and thoughts of a tramway revival were years away. Although the National Bus Company and Scottish Bus Group had been established, the constituent companies within these nationalised groups still largely retained their individual identities. Virtually every bus and coach on the roads had been built within the British Isles and the demise of such great names as Bristol, Leyland and Eastern Counties would have been thought impossible. Concepts such as deregulation were alien; indeed, greater thought was given to ideas of integration with the first of the Passenger Transport Executives having just been established.

By 1970, bus and coach operation in Yorkshire and north west England was dominated by the subsidiaries of the newly-created National Bus Company, most notably West Yorkshire, East Yorkshire, North Western and Ribble, although there were still numerous municipal operations in places such as Sheffield, Doncaster, Rotherham, Hull, Bradford, Blackpool, Leeds, Halifax, Preston, Barrow, Blackburn, Burnley and Huddersfield. The municipal operations in Greater Manchester had recently been transferred to the newly-created SELNEC PTE whilst those of Liverpool, Wallasey and others had become Merseyside PTE, although at the start of the decade most ex-municipal vehicles in service retained their traditional livery. Whilst the NBC would rapidly impose its corporate image on its subsidiaries during the first part of the decade, in 1970 the pre-1967 liveries were still in use and the variety of vehicle types was also impressive.

Artikelname: Buses Restored 2007
Artikelbeschreibung: Buses Restored is the invaluable annual guide to the many road transport museums throughout the British Isles. Compiled by the National Association of Road Transport Museums, the new 2007 edition has been thoroughly updated and once again includes colour illustrations throughout. The book is divided into sections dealing with museums which are normally open to the public, other collections of preserved buses and coaches, a section listing vehicles privately preserved by members of the British Bus Preservation Group and finally a list of operators of heritage bus services around the country. The bus preservation movement has more of a local rather than a national profile. It is more dispersed and less well known nationally than its counterpart on rails, the heritage railway sector. Information on some projects can be hard to come by for potentially interested members of the public to whom a collection of preserved buses can have as much of a nostalgic appeal as any preserved railway. This makes the need for a publication such as this all the greater. Buses Restored is a detailed and accessible handbook packed with useful information for the road transport enthusiast, the essential guide for those whose interests lie in this field.

Artikelname: Central SMT - The First 40 Years
Artikelbeschreibung: Central SMT formed a key part of Scotland's transport scene for half a century, providing the heavily industrialised areas of Clydeside and Lanarkshire with an extensive network of bus services that ensured it became a household name. Robert Grieves traces Central's origins and growth, along with the histories of the many smaller operators that it absorbed during its rapid expansion. Detailed captions accompany a collection of over 200 photographs, including a number of early colour shots. Many well-known Glasgow, Lanarkshire and Dunbartonshire locations form the backdrops of pictures of Central SMT buses plying their routes, bringing back memories for all those who travelled on Central's distinctive red buses. Coverage finishes in 1981 when bus conductors finally gave way to one-man operation.

Artikelname: Edinburgh Trams, The Last Years, Volume 3 - The West
Artikelbeschreibung: This is volume three of the popular Edinburgh Trams series by R.J.S. Wiseman, and covers the western tramways between 1952 and 1956. In addition to the tram network map, amongst the photos are Haymarket Terrace with the No.290 on its way to the city centre, the Scott Monument in Princes Street with passengers boarding the No.40, and No.184 to Stanley Road. Remember if you can or imagine if you can’t a time when transport was more leisurely and travelling across the city was an adventure.

Artikelname: Edinburgh Trams, The Last Years, Volume 4 - The East
Artikelbeschreibung: Volume four is the last in the popular Edinburgh Trams series by R.J.S. Wiseman and covers the eastern tramways between 1952 and 1956. Included is a socially drawn tram network map, the Royal High School on Regent Road with the No.168 in 1953, the No.65 crossing the bridge over the River Esk and many more. The final volume in the series doesn’t disappoint and continues the format of the other books with fabulous photographs from the author's personal collection.

Artikelname: Edinburgh Trams, The Last Years,Vol 1 - The North
Artikelbeschreibung: Richard Wiseman's photographs of Edinburgh's tramways were taken between 1952 and 1955, shortly before the network's closure on 16 November 1956. This volume covers the routes which served the northern part of Edinburgh, and features Leith, Newhaven, Granton, Ferry Road, Goldenacre, Pilrig, Bonnington, Stanley Road and Canonmills, as well as some views of the city centre.

Artikelname: Edinburgh's Trams, The Last Years, Volume 2 - The South
Artikelbeschreibung: Richard Wiseman's photographs of Edinburgh's tramways were taken between 1952 and 1955, shortly before the network's closure on 16 November 1956. This volume covers the routes which served the southern part of Edinburgh, and features Salisbury, Newington, Liberton, Hope Park Terrace, Melville Drive, Tollcross, Marchmont, Grange, Churchhill, Lauriston Place, Morningside and Fairmilehead, as well as some views of the city centre.

Artikelname: Edwin Catford's Edinburgh
Artikelbeschreibung: Until 1938, Edwin Catford worked for Edinburgh Corporation Transport Department as its chief electrician, where he made important contributions to the ongoing development of the city's trams. In addition to his day job, he took scores of transport-related photographs around Edinburgh, principally for personal interest but also to illustrate the department's magazine, Speed, of which he was editor. This book showcases a selection of his photographs, capturing a unique era in Edinburgh's transport history.

Artikelname: Glasgow in the Age of the Tram
Artikelbeschreibung: All aboard for a trip down memory lane! With evocative street scenes of postwar Glasgow and its suburbs gracing the pages, we start our journey in the city centre, travelling out by the various routes through the inner suburbs to the various termini of the once extensive system - how could we let them pull them all up, only to find that street trams are returning to many city streets 50 or so years since the last of the 'olduns' left the depots, and who knows perhaps they will one day return to Glasgow.

Artikelname: Isle of Man..Transport round the Isle of Man
Artikelbeschreibung: If you are familiar with our wheels around series of books then you will know what to expect here as this could easily have been called Wheels around the Isle of Man - the only difference is that this book is in a larger format and contains shipping too.Ken and Steven probably have the best collection of Isle of Man postcards and photographs extant and the photographs in this title can only be described as sumptuous. There are 18 or so pages on railways, about equally devoted to the Steam Railway, the Manx Railway & the Snaefell Mountain Railway. About twelve pages are devoted to tramways and similar, and aviation, civil and military, features on the next 20 pages ( incidentally, my dad flew my mum to the IOM during the war - they met at RAF Heathhall in Dumfries - so that's one copy of the book spoken for already) and this is followed by 30 pages of shipping. Included here are lifeboats, wrecks, coastal steamers, pleasure boats etc.etc. On to the road and we have fourteen pages of buses and 20 pages of car & carriage stuff, from early motor charabancs to motor racing. Last and definitely least (only kidding ) is motorcycle racing - as befits an island so steeped in same.If you are interested in the Isle of Man or some of the aforementioned transport themes, then you will want this book.

Artikelname: Leeds in the Age of the Tram
Artikelbeschreibung: An irresistibly nostalgic top-deck tram ride down Leeds's Memory Lane! Trams of one form or another ran in Leeds from September 1871, and were to make an enormous contribution to the public transport system of that city for the next 88 years. On 29 October 1891, Leeds became the first city in the United Kingdom to operate electric trams on the overhead wire system. These became a familiar part of city life until they finally passed into history on a cold, foggy night in November 1959. In this volume Graham Twidale recalls affectionately the last nine years of tramway operation in Leeds. A time when the familiar red and cream trams (blue and cream up to the early 1950s) meandered frequently around the city. Over 100 superb black and white photographs, many never before published, will revive strong memories of times past; the distinctive sound of the cars as they ground their way up Beeston Hill, for example, with motors whining, or clattered over Briggate Junction to load at the famous barriers set in the middle of the road.

Artikelname: London Transport in the 1930s
Artikelbeschreibung: On 1 July 1933, the London Passenger Transport Board was created. For the first time in the history of the Metropolis, all public transport, with the exception of the main line railways, was now under the control of a single body. From its constituents, the LPTB inherited a varied fleet of trams, trolleybuses, buses and underground services. Its remit stretched well beyond the borders of London into the Home Counties and, at the time of its creation, it was the largest municipal transport undertaking in the world. Among the LPTB’s many achievements was the introduction of trolleybuses in many areas as tramway replacements, the launch of the long-lasting RT bus and the expansion of the underground network. Also in these years, the LPTB’s architects bequeathed to the city some of its greatest public architecture.

In his fifth volume covering London Transport decade by decade, Michael Baker examines the development of public transport during these momentous years. Drawing upon his own collection and those of notable photographers of the period, he evokes the great variety of vehicles and activity seen on London’s roads and rails during this fascinating period.

Artikelname: London Transport in the 1970s
Artikelbeschreibung: For London Transport, the 1970s started with the creation of London Country as a separate operator, with the National Bus Company assuming responsibility for the former London Transport Country area services from 1 January 1970. By the end of the decade, two of the classic LT bus designs, the double-deck RT and the single-deck RF, had operated in public service for the last time. Many new single-deck designs, largely AEC Swifts and Merlins, were delivered along with the new DMS class of Daimler Fleetlines.With the arrival of these new vehicles, many old favourites such as the RTs, RLHs were withdrawn and the RM/RML class became numerically the largest in service. At the start of the 70s, LT had some 2,000 buses of this type. In his fourth volume covering London Transport decade by decade, Michael Baker examines the development of LT during this period of transition. He paints an affectionate portrait of how London Transport and London County evolved during these years and how their vehicle fleet’s evolved. As in the other titles in the series, LT’s rail operations are also discussed. The book includes some 175 illustrations portraying the great variety of scenes visible on London’s roads and rails during this era.

Artikelname: Midget Car Speedway
Artikelbeschreibung: In its early days motor racing was the preserve of the rich and glamorous. Drivers were likely to come from professional and wealthy backgrounds and spectators often liked to think of themselves as 'a cut above the rest'. During the 1920s and 1930s however; there was a gradual awakening of the fact that many people, not able to go to Brooklands or the other racecourses, were still interested in motor racing. For many, midget car racing was their first introduction to the sport.Originating in America, midget car racing soon took off in the UK with racetracks at Wembley, Southampton, Glasgow and Edinburgh and many points in between. In 1938, the sport came to Hanley and later Corbridge and from then on, the Potteries were to be at the forefront of Midget Car Speedway in Britain.Midget Car Speedway is a branch of motorsport that has been overlooked by many motor racing historians. Derek Bridgett's brilliantly illustrated history of the sport looks at the development of Midget Car Speedway before the Second World War; and in particular; the racing that took place in Staffordshire and Coventry.

Artikelname: Routemaster Retrospective
Artikelbeschreibung: Long before the chaos wrought upon London by privatisation, big groups, low floors and bendy buses, there was London Transport and its faithful workhorse of five decades, the Routemaster. By the late 1970s, the Reshaping Plan had been discarded as a disastrous failure. One unexpected and unintentional result of this was to bring the RM family back into favour, sweeping away hundreds of unwanted Merlins, Swifts and Fleetlines in the process. The bold but unworkable Fares Fair scheme of 1981 brought passengers back to the buses in their droves, but its subsequent overturning commenced a torrent of politically-motivated decisions which would, over the following decade, carry away all manifestations of state owned orderliness, dismembering London Transport and turning most of its crew operated routes over to One Person Operation. Despite this bleak outlook, it was far from the end for the Routemaster and further reprieves kept it in operation far longer than enthusiasts at the time would have dared to hope.

By the time this process was complete, there remained a core of about 600 refurbished Routemasters which kept the flag flying for London's transport identity and the traditional British half cab open platform bus, until their final withdrawal in 2003-2005. The Routemaster was more than a bus, it was one of the great British design icons of the 20th century. It was the last bus design created specifically for the capital and its longevity is a tribute to the soundness of that concept. Books about Routemasters are very popular and this one will be no exception to that rule. It will be eagerly sought by all who are united in their admiration for this great and long lived vehicle.

Artikelname: Wheels Around Aberdeen
Artikelbeschreibung: Alan Brotchie's latest Wheels Around book is typically wide-ranging, featuring aircraft, steam wagons (plus a steam road roller) and even a wheeled device for hauling in salmon nets from the River Dee. More typical are the buses, trains, trams, cars, bicycles and lorries that can be seen going about their business on the city's streets. Culter station, the Murcar trainie (which ran from near Bridge of Don to Murcar Golf Club), busy dock scenes at South Market Street, the launch of a vessel from Hall, Russell's shipyard and the tank Julian on a First World War visit to the city are some of the specific sights to be featured in the book.. As ever, there is as much interest in the backgrounds of the pictures as in the vehicles they show, and this will ensure that Wheels Around Aberdeen appeals to those with a general interest in the city's history as well as transport enthusiasts.

Artikelname: Wheels Around Arran, Bute and Cumbrae
Artikelbeschreibung: These three islands formerly comprised the County of Bute and over the years have featured an interesting range of transport types and operators. With some of the Clyde Coast's most stunning scenery providing the backdrop, Robert Grieves has selected photographs showing puffers, paddle steamers and car ferries, along with buses, bicycles, lorries, cars, trams and even a miniature railway. Many well-known former transport operators are featured, and brief histories of their businesses have been included.

Artikelname: Wheels Around Ayrshire
Artikelbeschreibung: Robert Grieves' latest 'Wheels' volume contains a typically diverse selection of top-quality transport pictures, from a horse-drawn furniture van being used for a Kilmarnock flitting, to a Johnnie Walker lorry loaded up with whisky barrels, and battery-powered 'Scamp' cars built at Prestwick Airport. Ayrshire towns and villages featured include: Ayr, Largs, Alloway, Kilmarnock, Dunlop, Saltcoats, Ardrossan, Fenwick, Galston, Darvel, Cumnock, Girvan, Straiton, Portencross, Maidens, Seamill, Stewarton, Prestwick, Stevenston and Dalmellington.

Artikelname: Wheels Around Caithness and Sutherland
Artikelbeschreibung: This classic collection of photographs illustrates many locations across Caithness and Sutherland, and every picture has at least one set of wheels in it too. From the eccentrics and enthusiasts who made their way to John O' Groats by car, motorcycle - and even on foot with a wheelbarrow - the selection goes on to feature scenes from the following locations: Halkirk, Bonar Bridge, Lairg, Wick, Tongue, Castletown, Balnacoil, Kylesku, Lybster, Brora, Spinningdale, Thurso, Keiss and Merkland

Artikelname: Wheels Around Connaught
Artikelbeschreibung: Wheels Around Connaught Author: Cyril McIntyre Price: £7.99 Ireland was traditionally divided into four provinces, of which Connaught, comprising the counties of Galway, Mayo, Sligo, Leitrim and Roscommon, was the most westerly. This selection of photographs illustrates the many types of transport that plied around Connaught between the mid-Victorian period and the 1970s. Buses feature prominently, but there are also pictures of cars, horse-drawn carts, trains, lorries and trams, with a few more unusual vehicles including a hearse, horse box, mobile crane, tractor and ambulance. One photograph shows a decommissioned Great Southern Railway bus enjoying an extended lease of life as a Red Cross canteen. Connaught's big transport operators are represented alongside many of the small concerns that once provided public transport in this sparsely populated area of Ireland. Locations featured include Clifden, Galway, Lough Corrib, Westport, Achill Island, Salthill, Leenane, Ballina, Knock, Mallaranny, Sligo, Carrigallen and Athlone.

Artikelname: Wheels Around Cork
Artikelbeschreibung: Both the city and county of Cork are covered in this book, which as in our other 'wheels' titles features a wide range of transport types from trains to buses, bicycles, cars, trams and lorries. Blackwater Bridge at Youghal is shown on the cover - bus passengers had to disembark here and cross the bridge to join another vehicle on the other side following weight restrictions that were introduced in 1939 - a second view inside the book shows them re-embarking having crossed over on foot, by bicycle or by car! Naturally, there are plenty of photographs of Patrick Street, Grand Parade, and other familiar city centre locations in Cork itself, whilst further-flung places featured include: Cronin's Hotel at Gougane Barra, Crosshaven, Glengarriff, Macroom and Monkstown. Although all the photographs have a transport element in them, many will be of interest to general readers, showing as they do locations across the city and county as they used to be.

Artikelname: Wheels Around Dublin
Artikelbeschreibung: This collection of 60 photographs illustrates the City of Dublin from the late nineteenth century to the 1970s, focusing on every form of wheeled transport imaginable, as well as providing snapshots of famous city landmarks in years gone by. The story begins with horse trams and an archaic (and short-lived) double decker bus service which made a brief appearance on Dublin's streets in 1908. It then moves on to the bustling inter-war years with numerous views of electric trams plying various routes in and around the city to destinations including Dalkey and Lucan. There are several pictures of buses operated by the growing number of independent companies that sprung up at that time, largely serving the growing suburbs. Horse-drawn transport was still important right up to the 1960s and is also illustrated, along with some of the city's rail services and the special buses that used to carry passengers to the airport (not to mention a plane or two!).

Artikelname: Wheels Around Dunoon and Cowal
Artikelbeschreibung: This selection of wheels-related photographs features modes of transport ranging from horse-drawn coaches to buses, cars, lorries, paddle steamers and even a steamroller. Illustrating a large but sparsely populated area, Old Dunoon and Cowal charts the development and vital importance of road transport in this part of Argyll. Combined with steamer services, the road network and the vehicles that plied it meant that most parts of the peninsula were accessible to both local people and tourists using public transport. Locations featured include Sandbank, Coylet Inn, Inverchapel pier, Innellan, Strachur, Kames, Glendaruel, Cairndow Hotel, Port Lamont, Strone and Lochgoilhead, while lots of pictures show vehicles en route at famous scenic locations around Cowal.

Artikelname: Wheels Around Edinburgh
Artikelbeschreibung: Complementary volume to Wheels Around Glasgow and the same sort of idea - all sorts of wheeled transport - buses, trams, trains, lorries, bikes, motorbikes etc.... if it had wheels it's here! A gorgeous collection of transport photos .....and of Edinburgh too!

Artikelname: Wheels Around Fort William and Lochaber
Artikelbeschreibung: As a former bus driver for MacBraynes, Robert Grieves is particularly well-qualified to write about transport matters in this part of the world, where the company reigned supreme both on the road and the water, with their fleet of buses, lorries and steamers. The impressive collection of pictures contained in the book includes the likes of Corran Ferry, Ballachulish Ferry, views of a Model T Ford on the top of Ben Nevis, as well as a Model A ascending the mountain, and a BSA motorcycle, also on the summit. Elsewhere you'll find a train crossing the Glenfinnan Viaduct, a driver and signalman exchanging tablets at Banavie station - the protocol for assuring safe passage for trains travelling on the stretch of single track from there on the Mallaig-bound line - and photographs of two of the railway lines operated by the British Aluminium Company. Scenes on Fort William pier show MacBraynes buses and steamers, whilst other views feature employees on MacBraynes bus services emptying mail boxes - formerly one of their duties on rural routes.

Artikelname: Wheels Around Glasgow
Artikelbeschreibung: This was the first book to come out in our 'Wheels Around' series, and has justifiably proved extremely popular. It's much more than just a transport book, and will appeal to anyone with connections to Glasgow, featuring as it does fantastic shots of city streets that also happen to include interesting 'wheeled' features. There's a picture of an aeroplane being towed along St Vincent Street, St Enoch Square packed with cars and buses, and a Cunarder tram clattering towards Glasgow Cross. Other delights include a horse-drawn Barr's Irn Bru cart and views of Buchanan Street before it was pedestrianised.

Artikelname: Wheels Around Glasgow_1
Artikelbeschreibung: This was the first book to come out in our 'Wheels Around' series, and has justifiably proved extremely popular. It's much more than just a transport book, and will appeal to anyone with connections to Glasgow, featuring as it does fantastic shots of city streets that also happen to include interesting 'wheeled' features. There's a picture of an aeroplane being towed along St Vincent Street, St Enoch Square packed with cars and buses, and a Cunarder tram clattering towards Glasgow Cross. Other delights include a horse-drawn Barr's Irn Bru cart and views of Buchanan Street before it was pedestrianised.

Artikelname: Wheels Around Inverclyde
Artikelbeschreibung: This book contains a varied selection of photographs showing all the main forms of transport that were once to be found in and around the towns of Port Glasgow, Greenock, Gourock, Kilmacolm and Wemyss Bay. Horse-drawn trams at Ashton, a Port Glasgow Gas Department steam waggon, Greenock Co-op's fleet of Rolls Royce hearses, and lorries carrying ropes from Gourock Ropeworks are some of the subjects featured. The area's local bus companies are illustrated before they were swallowed up by big national concerns, and there are two pictures of steam trains passing through Kilmacolm station (now closed). Paddle wheels feature too, as do plenty of street scenes of the towns included, making this of interest to transport fans and Inverclyde locals alike.

Artikelname: Wheels Around Kintyre
Artikelbeschreibung: The latest addition to the Wheels around series is a real cracker from the best-loved and most prolific author in the series. As usual it is stuffed full of great pictures of buses and commercials. Macbraynes are inevitably in here as are notable local names such as Peter McKerral, A & P McConnachie, West Coast Motors, Mundell, Dickie Brothers, Croan, and the Campbeltown and Machrihanish Railway and more. Locations include Campbeltown, Tarbert, and Drumlemble.

Artikelname: Wheels Around Paisley
Artikelbeschreibung: In this book Robert Grieves covers his home town of Paisley, drawing on pictures from his extensive archive. Like the other titles in the series, this is a must for the general transport enthusiast. It's packed with fantastic pictures of buses, trains, cars, delivery vans, horse buses and other forms of wheeled vehicles, including even prams (they've got wheels too). However, it should be stressed that Wheels Around Paisley will also appeal to general readers with a wider interest in Paisley itself. As usual Robert has taken pains to highlight local landmarks, shops and businesses, and many pictures shed as much light on the Paisley of the past as they do on wheeled subjects.

Artikelname: Wheels Around Perth
Artikelbeschreibung: This book will delight both transport enthusiasts and anyone with an interest in the history of Perth. Not only are there dozens of excellent transport photographs, but many of these include aspects of the city that have long since vanished. There are plenty of pictures of Perth's erstwhile trams, while horse-drawn traffic, locomotives, a paddle steamer, bicycles, cars, buses and delivery vehicles are illustrated going about their daily business on the city's streets. Perth's important history as a rail hub is well covered, while more unusual subjects include a fair on the South Inch and a cricket match on the North Inch (you'll need to read the book to discover the 'wheels' connection!).

Artikelname: Wheels Around Renfrewshire
Artikelbeschreibung: Prior to regionalisation in 1975, the county of Renfrewshire stretched north of the Clyde to include Yoker and parts of Scotstoun, while also reaching as far west as Gourock. Complementing Wheels Around Paisley, this book includes dozens of photographs illustrating numerous aspects of the county's transport past. The much-loved Renfrew Ferry features prominently, as do the trams and buses that connected with it. Elsewhere there are views of such diverse subjects as the scrapyard at Linwood Toll, a horse-drawn water cart in Barrhead, Dugald Semple's caravan at Bridge of Weir, and an early Castlebank Laundry lorry made by Albion Motors of Scotstoun. Classic photos of Renfrew Airport have been included as planes have wheels too! Robert Grieves' captions are detailed and illuminating, providing historical background that will interest general readers as well as the transport fraternity. Locations illustrated include: Port Glasgow, Brookfield, Kilbarchan, Greenock, Newton Mearns, Thornliebank, Paisley, Renfrew, Bishopton and Bridge of Weir.

Artikelname: Wheels Around Stirlingshire
Artikelbeschreibung: In addition to Stirling itself, locations featured in Wheels Around Stirlingshire include Falkirk, Gargunnock, Bridge of Allan, the Inversnaid Hotel, Larbert, Stenhousemuir and Balfron. There's a great selection of photographs illustrating all sorts of wheeled transport from the horse-drawn era to motorisation, including a view of the paddle steamer Princess May on Loch Lomond. Alexanders of Falkirk feature prominently, having played a key role in the development of transport services across the county, although numerous smaller operators - many of which were ultimately absorbed by Alexanders - are illustrated too. Barr's Irn Bru and McCowan's Highland Toffee are a couple of well-loved firms with Stirlingshire connections whose vehicles and histories are also featured.

Artikelname: Wheels Around Ulster
Artikelbeschreibung: Donegall Square, Smithfield bus station, Gelston's Corner, Castle Place and Bellvue are some of the Belfast locations featured in this book, whilst towns outside the city which are illustrated include Portstewart, Bangor, Banbridge, Lisburn, Ballymena, Portrush, Dundonald, Gilford and Londonderry. Many well-known former transport operators including H. M. S. Catherwood, the Londonderry & Lough Swilly Co. and the Belfast Omnibus Co. are featured, although it would be a mistake to assume that only buses appear in Wheels Around Belfast. Amongst other modes of transport included are the railways, with rolling stock from several different railway companies represented, Moffet, Chamberlain and McCreary type trams, many of the trolleybuses which succeeded them and also cars, lorries and even the odd bicycle.