Frank E. Wilson (2) (1905–)
Auteur de The British Tram
Pour les autres auteurs qui s'appellent Frank E. Wilson, voyez la page de désambigüisation.
Œuvres de Frank E. Wilson
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1905
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- UK
- Professions
- historian
- Organisations
- Tramway and Light Railway Society
Membres
Critiques
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 4
- Membres
- 23
- Popularité
- #537,598
- Évaluation
- 4.7
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 5
The author worked in various transport undertakings and had direct experience of running tramway systems. Yet his pessimism over the future was not just confined to the vanishing electric tramcar. The book closes with these words:
"Perhaps some of the babes in arms today will live to see the time when trains, buses, cars and probably aircraft have gone to join the tram in history - leaving them with hovercraft and rockets for earth and space travel, unless they have themselves, with the whole lot, disappeared in nuclear fission."
Posterity did different, fortunately. But the historical analysis remains valid.… (plus d'informations)