Gavin Booth
Autor(a) de The British motor bus: An illustrated history
About the Author
Gavin Booth, one of the country's leading experts on the subject of public transport history, has delved deep into the archives of many of the country's leading transport photographers to produce a fascinating survey of these often ignored vehicles, Dividing the subject into each of the specialised mostrar mais tasks, he shows how the various types of vehicle evolved during the twentieth century. Alongside the excellent photographs, the author's well-researched text and detailed captions make the book an essential work of reference for all those interested in the history of Britain's municipal bus operations. mostrar menos
Séries
Obras por Gavin Booth
Characters of the Bus Industry: a Tribute to Some of the Men Who Have Shaped the Industry Over the 75 Years Since the… (2004) 2 exemplares
Little Red Book 1992/93 - The leading directory for the bus & coach industry: Road Passenger Transport Industry (1992) 2 exemplares
The bus book: (everything you wanted to know about buses but were afraid to ask) (1984) 2 exemplares
Buses Annual 1979 1 exemplar
The Little Red Book 1993/94: Road Passenger Transport Directory for the British Isles And Western Europe (1984) 1 exemplar
Heyday of the Bus: 1960s Revisited 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- Scotland
- Locais de residência
- Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Membros
Críticas
British Bus Fleet Survey: Rear-engined Double Deckers por Gavin Booth
Another one of Ian Allan's series that never made it past the first instalment ...
½
One of Ian Allan's landscape-format 'Heyday' series, this book consists of - well, pictures of buses. Not much there for the non-anorak, then, you'd think. Well, think again. In the days depicted in these pictures, public transport was considered to be a demonstration of civic pride and public service, whether privately or publicly owned. Bus liveries were (usually) colourful but not garish, and owed more to the coachbuilding tradition than graphic design. Rampant commercialism, in the form of overall advertising, was unknown. And so often, the pictures show not only the buses but the streets they travelled through, with period detail that shows us the world of just a few decades ago, now gone forever.
Picture quality is usually reasonable, though a few slightly fuzzy pictures make it past the cut for their historical interest. Given that colour films were fairly slow until the 1970s, the results are more than acceptable. Then again, we're rather spoilt these days with high-resolution digital...… (mais)
Picture quality is usually reasonable, though a few slightly fuzzy pictures make it past the cut for their historical interest. Given that colour films were fairly slow until the 1970s, the results are more than acceptable. Then again, we're rather spoilt these days with high-resolution digital...… (mais)
One of Ian Allan's landscape-format 'Heyday' series, this book consists of - well, pictures of buses. Not much there for the non-anorak, then, you'd think. Well, think again. In the days depicted in these pictures, public transport was considered to be a demonstration of civic pride and public service, whether privately or publicly owned. Bus liveries were (usually) colourful but not garish, and owed more to the coachbuilding tradition than graphic design. Rampant commercialism, in the form of overall advertising, was unknown. And so often, the pictures show not only the buses but the streets they travelled through, with period detail that shows us the world of just a few decades ago, now gone forever.
Picture quality is usually reasonable, though a few slightly fuzzy pictures make it past the cut for their historical interest. Given that colour films were fairly slow until the 1970s, the results are more than acceptable. Then again, we're rather spoilt these days with high-resolution digital...… (mais)
Picture quality is usually reasonable, though a few slightly fuzzy pictures make it past the cut for their historical interest. Given that colour films were fairly slow until the 1970s, the results are more than acceptable. Then again, we're rather spoilt these days with high-resolution digital...… (mais)
You May Also Like
Estatísticas
- Obras
- 70
- Membros
- 212
- Popularidade
- #104,834
- Avaliação
- 2.6
- Críticas
- 3
- ISBN
- 81
- Línguas
- 1