CALEDONIAN AND BEYOND
Written by Garry Ward
Published by Autobus Review Publications
in 1993
ISBN: 0907834302
CALEDONIAN AND BEYOND
Written by Garry Ward.
Stock no. 809330
1st.
1993.
Softcover.
Large format.
Nearly fine condition.
The Story of Caledonian Omnibus Company and is successor, Wester SMT, in the Dumfries and Golloway Region. Large format. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w photos. ISBN: 0907834302. Corners lightly rubbed, contents fine.
Front cover
Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- In the beginning
- Expansion, co-operation... and conflict
- Reviewing the competition
- Haulage and parcels
- The late 'thirties
- Wartime and many challenges
- Preparing for peace
- The post-war boom
- The takeover
- The early 'fifties
- Modernising the fleet - the late 'fifties and early 'sixties
- The late 'sixties
- The 'seventies - and mounting passenger losses
- The 'eighties - and more routes go
- Into the 'nineties - picking up the pieces
- Fleet list
- Timetables
- Tickets
- General Managers
- Survivors