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Contents

n ORIGINS
7
Bath tramways and the motor bus routes which
12
STRUGGLES
16
Magnus Volk fating page
18
LEGISLATION
27
Greenwoods smoothtyred omnibus Courtesy
34
MECHANISATION
38
Blackpool conduit car of 1885 Courtesy of Modern
50
WALES AND THE WEST COUNTRY
161
Scenes in Europe
162
A Presidents Conference Committee car Photograph by C E Keevil
163
A streamlined train on the Skokie Valley line Photograph by C E Keevil
178
Experimental peakhour car for Liverpool
178
Courtesy of W M Hall
179
TRACKS OF THE SOUTH
187
A London United tramcar
194

ELECTRIFICATION
57
Gasengined tramcar
66
DEVIATIONISTS
68
Arrangement of L C C conduit system tracks
73
Section through a G B stud laid in the road on
79
The change at Joppa from Edinburgh cable cars
82
VIH LIVERPOOL
83
THE LONDON SYSTEM
93
Unusual track layout at Beresford Square
97
Some other notable tramway tickets
98
A Paris horse car
98
London tramway projects of 191920 Drawing
108
A 52seat battery car
114
Sixtyyear old Blackpool Dreadnought alongside the latest twinset railcoach and trailer Photograph by K W Swallow
115
Gauge changing apparatus on a Bradford 4 ft gauge
125
A toastrack built for the Blackpool and Fleetwood Tramroad
131
THE MIDLAND NETWORKS
139
A tight squeeze
146
The Kings way Subway
147
A scene at Tramways Centre Bristol 1939
194
XTV THE SCOTTISH STRONGHOLD
210
A surfacecontact London County Council car Courtesy of F Merton Atkins
210
Car No 3 of the Kinver Light Railway
210
Leeds Corporation 70seat Middleton bogie car
226
A modern interior
226
An 1896 opentop electric car Photograph courtesy of Tramway Museum Society
226
A Southampton car of 1900
227
SOME GREAT TRAMWAY MEN
234
Four tracks on steep Dog Kennel Hill London
234
Photograph by W H R Godwin
234
Fourwheeled miscellany
234
A Glasgow tramcar of 1948
235
A QUICK LOOK OVERSEAS
250
THE TROLLEYBUS AS RIVAL
264
XV1n THE ALLCONQUERING BUS
279
BIBLIOGRAPHY page
299
INDEX
317
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