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| Shopify Unique ID: | 10561494974756 |
| Trademe Reference: | PR1425 (77) |
| Category: |
Trains / Trams / Rail |
| New / Used: | Used |
Description
LIFE IN A RAILWAY FACTORY
by Alfred Williams
introduction Michael Justin Davis
DESCRIPTION
ISBN: 0905778316
Format: medium hardcover with dust jacket
Published: Wrens Park 1984, reprinted 1999
Size (mm): 180 w x 255 h x 30 d
Pages: 288
SKU: A4/2505/0266/T705
ABOUT
If you want to know how a locomotive works, how each component, each rivet and nut and bolt came together, read this book.
For twenty-three years, up to the First World War, Alfred Williams worked in the Great Western Railway's Works at Swindon, the locomotive capital of the west. The population of the town was then about fifty thousand, all more or less dependent upon the factory for survival.
Every singe aspect of life in a railway factory is covered in this book, first published in 1915, and he did not pull any punches in describing the appalling working conditions in the foundries, blast furnaces, blacksmith's shops and engine sheds which made up this vast industrial complex.
Includes monochrome images, portrait on title page.
CONDITION
New with light shelf wear on dust jacket and inscription on end paper. Images depict all need to know detail.
REMARKS
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