Author: Robert W. BerryPublisher:
ISBN: 9781903016220
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Bedford Buses of the 1930s and 1940s
Author: Alan EarnshawPublisher:
ISBN: 9781903016220
Category : Bedford buses
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
The Bedford range of commercial vehicles was introduced in 1931. Within that range a range of small buses was developed, including the popular OB and OWB types. This book tells the Bedford story from the start upto 1949.
Author: Mike BerryBedford Buses of the 1950s and 1960s
Author: Michael P. BerryPublisher:
ISBN: 9781903016107
Category : Bedford buses
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
This volume covers the post-war Big Bedfords as the SB range was christened, as well as the continued success of the small chassis ranges and the VAS, VAM and VAL ranges series of the 1960s. It is illustrated using photographs from the Vauxhall/Bedford archive.
Author: Michael Jarka
Author: Dirk R. SpennemannReliance Motor Services
Author: David WilderPublisher: Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN: 1526760371
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Between the two world wars and in the years that followed, several generations relied on country buses. In the days when few could afford a car, the bus was the medium to move between homes in often remote villages and the places where they increasingly went to school, worked and enjoyed their leisure hours. This is the story of one such chain of villages across the Berkshire Downs and the family-owned business that grew up around satisfying their needs. George Hedges came back from World War I to become a horse-drawn carrier, but with ambitions to motorise his business. With his family taking the wheel in the 50s and beyond, Reliance extended its reach nationwide and even internationally. The small village where it all started, Brightwalton, woke in the mornings to the cough of diesel engines from both Reliance buses and a relatives lorries. When both businesses departed, the village lost many of its jobs, its two pubs and very nearly its school. This book is not just for bus lovers but for anyone who looks back with fondness on the era before the motor car choked free movement and changed life.
Buffalo Wings
Author: Charles A. HobbiePublisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1440151989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
As World War II comes to an end in 1945, President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies in office. Throughout the country, the greatest generation mourns its leader. A spring snowstorm in Western New York inaugurates the cold war. Chuck Hobbie is just a boy, born on unlucky Friday, April 13th, but fortunate to be a child in Buffalo. As all Buffalonians know, it is not a dazzling city, unless the sparkle of winter snow and the shimmer of reflected summer lights from Erie and Niagara count. Likewise, the city's citizens, families, and teachers are unremarkable, unless resilience, friendships, and quiet, day-to-day hard work matter. Buffalo's children are not special at all, except that they were raised in Buffalo, amid the history of the Niagara Frontier, by people who cared for them and institutions that prepared them to fly. Buffalo's west side is where Chuck comes of age, but his childhood experiences range from there to New Hampshire's White Mountains, a farm in Lewiston, N.Y., Holloway Bay in Ontario, and Alaska's Brooks Range. Join Chuck as he recalls in Buffalo Wings the childhood family, friends, teachers, and experiences that shaped his life in the decades before the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
Bedford Buses and Coaches
Author: Nigel R B FurnessPublisher: The Crowood Press
ISBN: 1785002082
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Bedford Buses and Coaches provides a detailed review of the entire range of purpose-built Public Service Vehicle (PSV) bus and coach chassis that carried the Bedford name from 1931 until production ceased in 1986. Bedfords were once a familiar sight on the roads not only of the United Kingdom, but throughout the world. They were produced in such volume that the advertising slogan 'You see them everywhere' was quite legitmately adopted by Vauxhall Motors, the manufacturer of Bedford vehicles. Fully illustrated thoughout with hundreds of photographs, the majority in colour, the book includes detailed descriptions of the Bedford petrol and diesel engines and other manufacturers engines used in Bedford bus and coach chassis. Detailed specifications and production histories are given for all the full-size passenger chassis including the WHB/WLB, WTB, OB/OWB, SB, VAS, VAL, VAM, Y-series and the Venturer. Road tests and owners' experiences are covered along with advice on buying and restoring a Bedford bus or coach. This book will be of great interest to all bus enthusiasts and historians and is superbly illustrated with 200 colour and 50 black & white photographs.
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