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Earl L.A. Driver.

Speeding North with the 'Royal Scot'. A Day in the Life of a Locomotive Man (in collaboration with H. . Greenleaf).

Oxford University Press, 1939

98.90 €

Island Books

(Devon, United Kingdom)

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Year of publication
1939
Author
Earl L.A. Driver.
Publishers
Oxford University Press
Keyword
mstock, railways, rail, lms, london midland scottish, locomotives, carlisle, footplate, laurie earl, l.a. driver. earl, transport, railways, speeding, north, 'royal, scot'
Languages
English

Description

8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, 27 plates on 14 and 16pp of diagrammatic route guide, neat contemporary signature on front paste-down, some light and occasional spotting; original pictorial red cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in black, red top, neatly recased, a very good, firm copy. Recalling the heady days of LMS immediately before WWII, Laurie Earl's minute-by-minute account of a day on the footplate on the London-Carlisle run has long been recognised as a railway classic. Ottley 4196, 6835.
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