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Very practical - the 'success templates', or blueprint, is a
collection of processes to follow and templates to use to design
and build an agile alliance. Written by leading professionals in
the field of strategic alliances. Mike Nevin is the Founder of The
Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals, and Gavin Booth is
the Director of Strategic Alliances at KPMG. The book has a clear
focus on professional services and technology firms, and the
benefits of alliances between the two.
Very practical - the 'success templates', or blueprint, is a
collection of processes to follow and templates to use to design
and build an agile alliance. Written by leading professionals in
the field of strategic alliances. Mike Nevin is the Founder of The
Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals, and Gavin Booth is
the Director of Strategic Alliances at KPMG. The book has a clear
focus on professional services and technology firms, and the
benefits of alliances between the two.
Bus design has certainly evolved in the seven decades since 1950,
but it has not been a steady process. Advances in bus design have
caused manufacturers to rush back to the drawing board for fear of
being left behind. In 1950, the first of the new breed of
underfloor-engined single-deckers appeared, and, just six years
later, came the first rear-engined double-decker. Buses got longer,
and one result in the 1960s was a rash of new rear-engined
single-deck models. Efforts to make buses accessible for all
passengers led to low-floor models in the 1990s, and then, in the
2000s, concerns about the environment prompted diesel-electric
hybrid, gas, electric and hydrogen buses. Covering the designs that
led the way with varying degrees of success over the past 70 years,
and illustrated with over 170 colour images and period
advertisements, this book showcases the good, the bad and the ugly
of British bus design.
In just under 25 years, double-deck buses in the UK have undergone
a transformation. Every double-decker in normal service in the UK
today is a low-floor bus offering easy access to everyone. This
book traces the story of the UK's low-floor double-deckers, from
the first tentative steps to the widespread adoption of this layout
and the moves from diesel buses to diesel-electric hybrids, to gas,
electric and even hydrogen buses built for bus companies of all
sizes. It covers the London operators that initially drove the
low-floor revolution, along with the major groups, the remaining
local authority fleets and a range of enterprising independents
that operate them. Where once every double-decker for service in
the UK was built in the UK, today many chassis come from mainland
Europe and, increasingly, from manufacturers based in other and
more distant parts of the world - and UK builders have gained an
important foothold in Europe, North America, and the Far East as
well. The story is told for the first time, on a model-by-model
basis, supported by many unseen colour images, which show the buses
in use throughout the UK.
By the end of the 1960s, economics dictated that the traditional
front-engined double-decker had had its day. In the Atlantean and
its competitors, the British bus and coach industry had vehicles
capable of taking on and meeting the challenges, both at home and
abroad, that the contemporary world presented. The Atlantean was
probably the last British-designed and -built bus to achieve
massive sales worldwide, with the list of operators both at home
and abroad being legion. In this fully illustrated book, Gavin
Booth looks back at the development of the Leyland Atlantean from
its origins in the 1950s and examines its importance over the past
half-century. Although the Atlantean has largely disappeared from
public service, its influence remains and, through the handful that
remain in service and those that survive in preservation and
through the pages of this book, it is possible to pay tribute to
one of the most significant bus designs of the second half of the
20th century.
Bus and coach manufacturers advertised in the trade magazines for
various reasons it was to sell their products, of course, but also
to keep their names in front of the people who made the decisions,
to keep their shareholders happy, to boast about their successes
and to support the trade press. Over the years, the number of
manufacturers promoting their wares has fluctuated from several
dozen bus builders competing for orders in the years following
World War Two, to the late 1960s, when British Leyland had acquired
much of the competition and was starting to abandon popular brands
as it moved to rationalise its product range. This impacted the
monthly trade magazines as the number of advertisers dwindled, and
this led to the closure of the market-leading magazine Bus &
Coach in 1970. The book uses trade adverts that appeared in the
years between 1945 and 1970 to illustrate the development of new
bus and coach chassis and bodies, and the constantly changing
visual styles used by advertisers to catch the eye of potential
customers.
Although to many enthusiasts, municipal vehicles never extended
beyond the trams, trolleybuses and buses that were required to
provide the basic public service, behind them were a range of
vehicles that were required to enable operations to proceed
smoothly. These vehicles - tower wagons, tree-loppers, towing
vehicles, training vehicles, mobile canteens and numerous others -
are vehicles that, historically, have tended to be ignored when
writing the history of municipal operators but without which
operation would have been impossible. Some of these vehicles were
often elderly buses converted for new duties, others were specially
constructed for their somewhat specialised tasks; all, however, are
fascinating examples of historic municipal vehicles. Gavin Booth,
one of the country's leading experts on the subject of public
transport history, has delved deep into the archives of many of the
country's leading transport photographers to produce a fascinating
survey of these often ignored vehicles. Dividing the subject into
each of the specialised tasks, he shows how the various types of
vehicle evolved during the twentieth century. Alongside the
excellent photographs, the author's well-researched text and
detailed captions make the book an essential work of reference for
all those interested in the history of Britain's municipal bus
operations.
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