The city of York stands at the confluence of the rivers Ouse and Foss on flat arable land called the Vale of York, which is bordered to the west by the Pennines, to the northeast by the North York Moors and to the east by the rolling Yorkshire Wolds. Outside the city are many beautiful small country villages and bus operators were needed to provide services linking these local villages and towns with York, especially on market days. Consequently, routes were very rural, and besides catering for the traditional market day shoppers, they often carried a considerable volume of passengers to work in York. This book, the follow-on to York Independent: Eastern Stage Bus Operators, tells the story of stage bus companies, including Hopes Motor Services, Hutchinson Brothers, Reliance Motor Services, G E Sykes & Son and Majestic of Cawood, who operated from the west of York. Including over 150 photographs, many in color, it shows how most of the companies covered started out as family-based operators running a service to the nearest local market town before expanding to offer excursions and private hires. It also shows how changes to the way of life, including the growth of car ownership, eventually killed off the majority of them.

In African Motors, Joshua Grace examines how Tanzanian drivers, mechanics, and passengers reconstituted the automobile into a uniquely African form between the late 1800s and the early 2000s. Drawing on hundreds of oral histories, extensive archival research, and his ethnographic fieldwork as an apprentice in Dar es Salaam's network of garages, Grace counters the pervasive narratives that Africa is incompatible with technology and that the African use of cars is merely an appropriation of technology created elsewhere. Although automobiles were invented in Europe and introduced as part of colonial rule, Grace shows how Tanzanians transformed them, increasingly associating their own car use with maendeleo, the Kiswahili word for progress or development. Focusing on the formation of masculinities based in automotive cultures, Grace also outlines the process through which African men remade themselves and their communities by adapting technological objects and systems for local purposes. Ultimately, African Motors is an African-centered story of development featuring everyday examples of Africans forging both individual and collective cultures of social and technological wellbeing through movement, making, and repair.

Between the 1930s and 1960s, during the peak of Britain's railways, road hauliers were in stiff competition to transport goods. The commercial vehicles used during this period varied from articulated lorries to vans, trucks, recovery vehicles and wreckers. With photographs featuring a range of vehicle types and manufacturers both popular and obscure, Royston Morris offers an interesting insight into a range of surviving commercial vehicles dating from before 1960.

In African Motors, Joshua Grace examines how Tanzanian drivers, mechanics, and passengers reconstituted the automobile into a uniquely African form between the late 1800s and the early 2000s. Drawing on hundreds of oral histories, extensive archival research, and his ethnographic fieldwork as an apprentice in Dar es Salaam's network of garages, Grace counters the pervasive narratives that Africa is incompatible with technology and that the African use of cars is merely an appropriation of technology created elsewhere. Although automobiles were invented in Europe and introduced as part of colonial rule, Grace shows how Tanzanians transformed them, increasingly associating their own car use with maendeleo, the Kiswahili word for progress or development. Focusing on the formation of masculinities based in automotive cultures, Grace also outlines the process through which African men remade themselves and their communities by adapting technological objects and systems for local purposes. Ultimately, African Motors is an African-centered story of development featuring everyday examples of Africans forging both individual and collective cultures of social and technological wellbeing through movement, making, and repair.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfangen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind. Der Verlag stellt mit diesem Archiv Quellen fur die historische wie auch die disziplingeschichtliche Forschung zur Verfugung, die jeweils im historischen Kontext betrachtet werden mussen. Dieser Titel erschien in der Zeit vor 1945 und wird daher in seiner zeittypischen politisch-ideologischen Ausrichtung vom Verlag nicht beworben.

The Blackpool Electric Tramway Company commenced operation of a conduit system of railed vehicles along the Promenade between Cocker Street and Station Road on 29 September 1885. By the 1930s the rolling stock was becoming somewhat worn out and, following the appointment of Walter Luff as General Manager in November 1932, the fleet was revolutionised. Over the next few years Luff introduced a fleet of eighty-four streamlined cars and built a new depot at Rigby Road in which to house them. These formed the backbone of the fleet for several decades and a considerable number, although significantly altered, continued in service until the end of conventional tramway operation on 6 November 2011. Following a substantial injection of government funding in January 2008 the failing tramway was revitalised and like a phoenix from the ashes the whole system was modernised and reopened as a Light Rail Transit system in April 2012, with a fleet of new LRT articulated vehicles, which were housed in a new depot at Starr Gate. This book features a wide cross-section of trams that have operated at the seaside resort over the past forty years and follows the line from Starr Gate to Fleetwood, with many comparisons made between the old and new systems.

Der Gaserzeugerbau wurde in den letzten Jahren durch die Ent wicklung von Fahrzeug-Gaserzeugern in neue Bahnen gelenkt, die andererseits auch den ortfesten Gaserzeugerbau entsprechend zu beein flussen vermogen. Das Ziel der vorliegenden Arbeit sollte sein, die bis herige Entwicklung zusammenfassend zur Darstellung zu bringen. An Hand von Versuchsergebnissen und unter Berucksichtigung der thermo chemischen GleichgeWichtsverhaltnisse werden die grundlegenden Um setzungen in einem Gaserzeuger beschrieben und die daraus sich ergeben den Moglichkeiten besprochen. Dabei wurde besonderer Wert auf die Verwendungsmoglichkeit von fossilen Brennstoffen, besonders Schwel koks, gelegt, da diese Brennstoffe in ausreichendem Masse zur Verfugung stehen und ihre Verwendung vom volkswirtschaftlichen Standpunkt aus sogar geboten erscheint. Daneben wurde jedoch auch das Ho z und die Holzkohle als Brennstoff fur Gaserzeuger behandelt, wenn auch die Verwendung von Holz zu Brennzwecken eingeschrankt werden soll und sich in Zukunft wohl vorwiegend auf waldreiche Gegenden be schranken wird. Immerhin verdient der Holz-und Holzkohlen-Gaserzeuger noch deshalb Beachtung, da hier die Entwicklung zum Hochleistungs Gaserzeuger am weitesten fortgeschritten ist und bei einer sachgemass ausgefuhrten Anlage selbst im Fahrzeugbetrieb restlos zufriedenstellend arbeitet, wahrend diese Entwicklung bei den fossilen Brennstoffen erst in den Anfangen steht. An Hand theoretischer Betrachtungen und Wiedergabe von Ver suchsergebnissenwerden Massnahmen zur Leistungssteigerung besprochen. Anschliessend wird eine Berechnung der Abmessungen von Gaserzeugern unter Berucksichtigung der vorliegendei: J. Versuchsergebnisse angegeben. An ausgefuhrten Anlagen fur die verschiedenen Brennstoffe wird die Entwicklung von Gaserzeugern und Reinigungsanlagen gezeigt. Zum Schlusse folgen wirtschaftliche Betrachtungen uber die Verwendungs moglichkeit von Gaserzeugern im Fahrzeugbetrieb."