Author: HAMILTON ELLIS, C.
Title: Twenty Locomotive Men.
Description: London: Ian Allan Ltd, 1958. 1st edition. "The Locomotive Superintendent, or Chief Mechanical Engineer, was one of the most distinctive products of the Railway Age. Of this tough, now vanished, breed of men the twenty Mr Ellis has selected were as diverse in character as can be imagined, but all of them were autocrats..From the ill-starred Sacré to the jovial William Adams and the granite-like Dugald Drummond, they are racily portrayed in a collection which ranges over the 140 years from 1797 to 1937." Pp.viii/214, colour frontispiece + 41 black & white illustratons and photos, owner's initials to front free endpaper. Purple cloth, dustwrapper hasedge chips and tears with small losses. VG/Good.

Keywords: Hamilton Ellis 20 Locomotive Men Adams Beattie Craven Sinclair Gooch Crampton Sturrock Stirling Sacré Johnson Stroudley Jones Webb Worsdell Drummond Dean Manson Aspinall Churchward Biography 47938 Railways


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