Air Transport

Herausgeber: Lyth, Peter J.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Each volume in this new series is a collection of seminal articles on a theme of central importance in the study of transport history, selected from the leading journal in the field. Each contains between ten and a dozen articles selected by a distinguished scholar, as well as an authoritative new introduction by the volume editor. Individually they will form an essential foundation to the study of the history of a mode of transport; together they will make an incomparable library of the best modern research in the field.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 446g
• ISBN-13: 9781859283097
• ISBN-10: 1859283098
• Artikelnr.: 57046319

Autorenporträt

Peter J. Lyth

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction; Aspects of commercial air transport history
Peter J Lyth; Aviation and the State: the Grahame-White Aviation Company
1912-23
A D George; The Daimler Airway: April 1922-March 1924
E Birkhead; The Financial Failure of British Air Transport Companies
E Birkhead; Imperial Airways
1924-40
A J Quinn-Harkin; British Airways Ltd
1935-40
Robin Higham; The New Road to the Isles: Highland Airways and Scottish Airways
1933-39
Alec J Robertson; The Bermuda Conference and Anglo-American Aviation Relations at the End of the Second World War
David Mackenzie; 'A Multiplicity of Instruments': the 1946 Decision to Create a Separate British European Airline and its Effect on Civil Aircraft Production
Peter J Lyth; Nationalisation and the independent airlines in the United Kingdom
1945-51
B K Humphreys; Trooping and the Development of the British Independent Airlines
B K Humphreys; Helicopter Airlines in the United States
1945-75
A Gerald Peters and Donald F Wood; A Short History of London's Airports
P W Brooks.