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  • THE LONDON DM AND DMS BUSES - TWO DESIGNS ILL SUITED TO LONDON
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    THE LONDON DM AND DMS BUSES - TWO DESIGNS ILL SUITED TO LONDON
    JIM BLAKE
    JIM BLAKE'S latest book on London's buses may come as a surprise, since he usually concentrated on older vehicles in the fleet. However, the unpopular, unsuccessful DMs and DMSs were still part of London Transport's history, so he recorded them too, particularly towards the end of the short working lives. Forced by central government to buy "off-the-peg" standard manufacturers'...

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  • LONDON TRANSPORT BUSES IN THE 1960S
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    LONDON TRANSPORT BUSES IN THE 1960S
    JIM BLAKE
    Just as life in Britain generally changed dramatically during the 1960s, so did London Transport's buses and their operations. Most striking was the abandonment of London's trolleybuses, once the world's biggest system, and their replacement by motorbuses. Begun in 1959 using surplus RT-types, it was completed by May 1962 using new Routemasters, designed specifically to replace...

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  • LONDON TRANSPORT BUSES IN THE 1960S
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    LONDON TRANSPORT BUSES IN THE 1960S
    JIM BLAKE
    Just as life in Britain generally changed dramatically during the 1960s, so did London Transport's buses and their operations. Most striking was the abandonment of London's trolleybuses, once the world's biggest system, and their replacement by motorbuses. Begun in 1959 using surplus RT-types, it was completed by May 1962 using new Routemasters, designed specifically to replace...

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  • TROLLEYBUS TWILIGHT
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    TROLLEYBUS TWILIGHT
    JIM BLAKE
    In this new photographic album from Pen & Sword, transport historian and photographer Jim Blake presents a fascinating selection of pictures of a form of public transport now sadly missing from Britain's streets trolleybuses. ...

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  • LONDON'S RAILWAYS, 1967–1977
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    LONDON'S RAILWAYS, 1967–1977
    JIM BLAKE
    This pictorial book covers London's railways from 1967 to 1977, showing the transition from steam to diesel and electric traction.This volume has a very readable narrative, telling tales of the authors adventures during his many trips around the London railway network.The volume encapsulates a period of time in Britain, during which a great deal of change was taking place, not ...

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  • BRITISH BUSES, 1967
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    BRITISH BUSES, 1967
    JIM BLAKE
    The story of a turning-point year in Britain's bus industry, with numerous photos and "extensive and informative" captions ( Trolleybus Magazine). 1967 was the year that preceded the end of an era, when private and semi-nationalized companies operated the bus networks in Britain. After 1967, the network was never the same again, with the formation of the National Bus Company in...

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  • IMPROVING LEARNING IN A PROFESSIONAL CONTEXT
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    IMPROVING LEARNING IN A PROFESSIONAL CONTEXT
    MCNALLY, JIM / BLAKE, ALLAN
    Improving Learning in a Professional Context provides vital new evidence on exactly how teachers learn to be teachers; evidence that is likely to affect and influence the profession for many years to come. Demonstrating that learning in schools is more than simple ‘cognitive’ knowledge of the curriculum and teaching skills, this book suggests that we need to pay more attention ...

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  • LONDON BUSES IN THE 1970S
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    LONDON BUSES IN THE 1970S
    JIM BLAKE
    "A compilation of photos taken in the difficult period . . . when LT and London Country were plagued with maintenance problems. A valuable record." —West Somerset Railway Association   Continuing with images from transport photographer Jim Blake's extensive archives, this book examines the second half of the 1970s, when both London Transport and London Country were still strugg...

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  • B.E.T. GROUP BUS FLEETS
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    B.E.T. GROUP BUS FLEETS
    JIM BLAKE
    This book looks at the wonderful variety of buses and coaches operated by British Electric Traction group fleets in the 1960s, featuring previously unpublished photographs from Jim Blake's extensive archives.Not only did these fleets, which served most of England and Wales, have a splendid variety of British-built buses and coaches with chassis manufactured by the likes of AEC,...

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  • THE BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION GROUP
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    THE BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION GROUP
    JIM BLAKE
    This fascinating and informative book looks at the Tilling Group of bus companies during the 1960s. These operated approximately half of the inter-urban and rural bus services in England and Wales, and were nationalized by Clement Attlee's Labour Government in 1948 under the control of the British Transport Commission. Ownership passed to the Transport Holding Company Ltd in 19...

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  • THE LONDON LEYLANDS
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    THE LONDON LEYLANDS
    JIM BLAKE
    LONDON'S FAMOUS RT-TYPE BUSES were an iconic symbol of our Capital city in the 1950s, before being superseded by the Routemasters. Most were built between 1947 and 1954 to replace worn-out pre-war and wartime buses, as well as our remaining trams. More than 7,000 were built in all and although London Transport favored A.E.C. chassis, which the first batches of RTs had, so press...

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  • LONDON BUSES IN THE 1970S
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    LONDON BUSES IN THE 1970S
    JIM BLAKE
    Using photographs from Jim Blake's extensive archives, this book examines the turbulent period in the history of London's buses immediately after London Transport lost its Country Buses and Green Line Coaches to the recently-formed National Bus Company, under their new subsidiary company, London Country Bus Services Ltd.The new entity inherited a largely elderly fleet of buses ...

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  • BRITISH INDEPENDENT BUS & COACH OPERATORS
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    BRITISH INDEPENDENT BUS & COACH OPERATORS
    JIM BLAKE
    A pictorial history of Great Britain’s independent bus and coach fleets from the 1960s. During the 1960s, many independent bus and coach fleets existed in Britain, and each varied enormously in size and scope of operation. They ranged from major operators such as Barton Transport (Nottinghamshire); Lancashire United and West Riding who operated stage carriage services as well a...

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  • BRITISH MUNICIPAL BUS OPERATORS
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    BRITISH MUNICIPAL BUS OPERATORS
    JIM BLAKE
    The renowned transport photographer and author of British Railways in Transition looks at municipal operators in England and Wales in the 1960s.   Going back to the very first horse-bus or tram operations in Victorian times, many towns and cities throughout Britain had such operators, owned and run by the town or city councils. Most of them had tramway systems, many of which we...

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  • BRITISH BUSES & COACHES IN THE 1960S
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    BRITISH BUSES & COACHES IN THE 1960S
    JIM BLAKE
    A pictorial history of buses and coaches of the period, drawn from a British transport photographer’s vast collection.   British Buses and Coaches in the 1960s is an overview of the bus and coach scene during a decade of great social and economic change in Britain’s history. This volume looks at the interesting and varied number of bus and coach operators that still existed, be...

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  • BRITISH STEAM SUNSET
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    BRITISH STEAM SUNSET
    JIM BLAKE
    In this new album from Pen & Sword, transport historian and photographer Jim Blake presents a selection of pictures he took around the country in British steam's final years.British Railways withdrew their last steam engines with almost indecent haste in the mid- to late–1960s, many having seen only a few years' service before consignment to the scrapheap. Jim's pictures graphi...

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  • BRITISH RAILWAYS IN TRANSITION
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    BRITISH RAILWAYS IN TRANSITION
    JIM BLAKE
    This is a book about the transition from steam to diesel and electric traction on British Railways, covering a period from 1960–1970. The author Jim Blake, took a huge number of pictures during this period, covering all aspects of the railway and its operations, both in the London area, where he lived and also around the country. This book looks at the railway scene in decline,...

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  • TROLLEYBUS TWILIGHT
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    TROLLEYBUS TWILIGHT
    JIM BLAKE
    In this new photographic album from Pen & Sword, transport historian and photographer Jim Blake presents a fascinating selection of pictures of a form of public transport now sadly missing from Britain's streets trolleybuses. ...

    $279.00

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  • BRITISH RAILWAYS IN TRANSITION
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    BRITISH RAILWAYS IN TRANSITION
    JIM BLAKE
    This is a book about the transition from steam to diesel and electric traction on British Railways, covering a period from 1960–1970. The author Jim Blake, took a huge number of pictures during this period, covering all aspects of the railway and its operations, both in the London area, where he lived and also around the country. This book looks at the railway scene in decline,...

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  • BRITISH STEAM SUNSET
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    BRITISH STEAM SUNSET
    JIM BLAKE
    In this new album from Pen & Sword, transport historian and photographer Jim Blake presents a selection of pictures he took around the country in British steam's final years.British Railways withdrew their last steam engines with almost indecent haste in the mid- to late–1960s, many having seen only a few years' service before consignment to the scrapheap. Jim's pictures graphi...

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  • THE BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION GROUP
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    THE BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION GROUP
    JIM BLAKE
    This fascinating and informative book looks at the Tilling Group of bus companies during the 1960s. These operated approximately half of the inter-urban and rural bus services in England and Wales, and were nationalized by Clement Attlee's Labour Government in 1948 under the control of the British Transport Commission. Ownership passed to the Transport Holding Company Ltd in 19...

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  • LONDON'S UNDERGROUND SINCE 1985
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    LONDON'S UNDERGROUND SINCE 1985
    JIM BLAKE
    JIM BLAKE's second volume of his photographs featuring the London Underground cover the period from 1985, shortly after the Thatcher regime's destruction of London Transport and its re-birth as London Underground Ltd., to 2021 when the Northern Line gained its new branch from Kennington to Battersea Power Station. This was a turbulent time in the system's history, encompassing ...

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  • THE LONDON MB AND SM BUSES - A LONDON BUS DISAPPOINTMENT
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    THE LONDON MB AND SM BUSES - A LONDON BUS DISAPPOINTMENT
    JIM BLAKE
    PURCHASED to replace London Transport's ageing RT-type fleet, and also to ease staff shortages by extending one-man operation, the MB-types were not only a disappointment, but an unmitigated disaster! Their successors, the SM-types, were if anything worse, being underpowered as well as equally unsuitable for London operation. In this new volume of his photos, Jim Blake takes a ...

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  • THE LONDON UNDERGROUND, 1968-1985
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    THE LONDON UNDERGROUND, 1968-1985
    JIM BLAKE
    LONDON’S HISTORIC, iconic Underground railway system in the period from 1968 to 1985 was a very different place to what it is in the 2020s. Much of its rolling stock dated from before World War Two, and with the exception of the new Victoria Line and the isolated Woodford to Hainault shuttle, trains were all two-person operated as the 1970s dawned. Transport photographer Jim Bl...

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