Book Description
A wonderful selection of photographs documenting the British buses in both Lisbon and Portugal as a whole.
Author : David Harvey
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 41,4 MB
Release : 2019-09-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1445692643
A wonderful selection of photographs documenting the British buses in both Lisbon and Portugal as a whole.
Author : David Harvey
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,68 MB
Release : 2019-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781445692630
From 1940 until the mid-1970s Britain supplied Portugal with many of its bus chassis. In the capital city of Lisbon, the local operator was CCFL, which was the first buyer of heavyweight British-built bus chassis. Between 1947 and 1949 some 141 single-deckers were placed in service. The first double-deckers were two Leyland Titan PD1As arriving in 1947, but from 1950 a large fleet of AEC Regent IIIs and Vs was purchased, with the last ones arriving in 1967. The development of public transport in Oporto began when the municipal authorities wished to encourage mule-hauled trams. The criticism of the slow speed of tram travel began to pick up pace and between 1954 and 1957 batches of Daimler under-floor single-deckers were delivered to Oporto, followed by ten Leyland Worldmaster LERT1/1s in 1959 and then ten AEC Regent V D2LA double-deckers in July 1960. British motorbuses were obtained in small numbers in Coimbra, with only twenty-three ever being purchased. In 1949, a pair of Daimler CVD6s was bought new while in February 1964 two AEC Regent Vs were purchased, becoming the only double-deckers to ever operate in that university city. With a wonderful array of photographs, David Harvey tells the story of British buses in Lisbon, Oporto and Coimbra, among other locations in Portugal, documenting a period where the public transport of Portugal would have seemed familiar to any British tourist.
Author : Gavin Booth
Publisher :
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 14,74 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Buses
ISBN : 9780946265411
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Page : 1182 pages
File Size : 50,82 MB
Release : 1918
Category : Commerce
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Page : 866 pages
File Size : 44,12 MB
Release : 1918
Category : Commerce
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Page : 596 pages
File Size : 41,86 MB
Release : 1941
Category : Consular reports
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Author : United States. Department of Commerce
Publisher :
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 19,83 MB
Release : 1941
Category : Consular reports
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Author : Fodor's
Publisher : Fodor's
Page : 1234 pages
File Size : 43,83 MB
Release : 2003-12-02
Category : Europe
ISBN : 1400012759
A guide to Europe, featuring recommendations on things to see and do, and places to eat and stay in thirty countries, and including maps.
Author : Meleckidzedeck Khayesi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 12,6 MB
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317116852
Transport discourse often concentrates on what is missing from transport policy and practice in developing countries vis-à-vis high-income countries rather than articulating local creativity in responding to transport needs as revealed in informal public transport modes such as matatu, motorcycle, bicycle and animal transport. This book helps to correct some of the tendency of inadequate contextualization of knowledge, technology and practice learning and transfer from one setting to another in transport and other development programmes. While countries such as Kenya have ambitions to develop their transport systems to fit into the globalized transport system, they also need to plan transport for ordinary life in both urban and rural areas. The matatu service, provided by privately-owned transport carriers, can be seen as a mirror of the life of Kenya, revealing how indigenous African entrepreneurship and capitalism straddles various economic, political and social systems. This book offers a phenomenological and situated analysis of the matatu entrepreneurship in the political economy of Kenya and its embeddedness in society. By adopting a social science approach, this book highlights a number of political, social and practical issues to demonstrate the matatu is not a decontextualized, disembodied and lifeless piece of moving metal carrying people and goods but rather part of a self-organizing industry, with its own logic of practice. This book is dedicated to Ajanga Khayesi.
Author : John Cannon
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 1030 pages
File Size : 40,68 MB
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 0199677832
In over 4,500 entries, this Companion covers all aspects of the history of Britain from 55 BC to the present day. Completely revised and updated, this is the go-to reference work for students and teachers of British history, as well as for anyone with an interest in the subject.