The wonderfully titled ‘Yorkshire Woollen District Transport Co Ltd" was unsurprisingly based in the centre of the world famous Yorkshire woollen industry in Dewsbury. I always heard it referred to as "The ‘Tracckie" – oddly in the employment of Eastern Scottish in Edinburgh as some close social linsk prevailed between Read More →
A booklet issued by the LNER to tempt travellers and partially by showing all the various booklets and leaflets they issued to drum up the all important leisure traffic. The cover shows the early version of the LNER logo that woudl soon be redesigned into more modern forms by the Read More →
A booklet issued by the LNER to tempt travellers and partially by showing all the various booklets and leaflets they issued to drum up the all important leisure traffic. The cover shows the early version of the LNER logo that woudl soon be redesigned into more modern forms by the Read More →
A booklet issued by the LNER to tempt travellers and partially by showing all the various booklets and leaflets they issued to drum up the all important leisure traffic. The cover shows the early version of the LNER logo that woudl soon be redesigned into more modern forms by the Read More →
A booklet issued by the LNER to tempt travellers and partially by showing all the various booklets and leaflets they issued to drum up the all important leisure traffic. The cover shows the early version of the LNER logo that woudl soon be redesigned into more modern forms by the Read More →
A booklet issued by the LNER to tempt travellers and partially by showing all the various booklets and leaflets they issued to drum up the all important leisure traffic. The cover shows the early version of the LNER logo that woudl soon be redesigned into more modern forms by the Read More →
The golden days of trans-atlantic steam ship services are evoked on the cover of this small 1936 leaflet issued by the Canadian Pacific concern who ran railway, steamship and hotel concerns to give an ‘integrated’ travel experience. via Flickr http://flic.kr/p/wkvU8F
Read More →For £63 10s in 1936 you could take a 23 day trip across the Atlantic to the highlights of eastern Canada and the North East US. Leaving Liverpool on April 9th on the Duchess of Bedford you were promised a splendidly invigorating Atlantic crossing! via Flickr http://flic.kr/p/wicu11
Read More →A sizable number of municipal (and indeed company) transport operators issued ‘official handbooks’ during the 1930s – this for Leicester in 1935 has details of the city and the tram and bus routes that served it. This guide has a very contemporary front cover. via Flickr http://flic.kr/p/vXwJ37
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