The History of the White Star Line - Softcover

Gardiner, Robin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0711031703 ISBN 13: 9780711031708

Verlag: Ian Allan Publishing, 2006

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Book by Gardiner Robin

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Reseña del editor:

Well known railway writer Adrian Vaughan, and author of the very successful title Railway Blunders, now turns his attention to what he considers to be the greatest blunder the railway industry has ever perpetrated, the privatisation of the 1990s. A personal polemic, he first gives a history from the dawn of the railway age up to 1948 when the industry developed into a number of large, centralised, integrated self-supporting companies, but the efficiencies borne from a common gauge and common standards enabled the railways to withstand even the very worst pressures that two World Wars brought to the transport system. The author then goes on to analyse the process of privatisation and the effects it has had on the industry in the ensuing years. He looks in detail at the franchisees, the contracts, the costs, the successes and more prevalent failures, the comparison with railways abroad, and to the final chapter where he poses the question 'Has privatisation achieved anything that could not have been achieved by BR?' All readers can judge for themselves in this often controversial but always absorbing study.

Reseña del editor:

There is much in the pages of this factual account of a commercial organisation that would not disgrace a work of fiction. It will become clear to the reader that 'Titanic' was not alone in being a victim of the company's apparently cavalier approach to seamanship. There is the mystery of the disappearance of so much material from the company's archives not to mention the ownership of the White Star Line, which is labyrinthine in its complexity and involved the almost legendary financier J.P. Morgan. As the author notes in his introduction, there a few books that can incorporate items relating to 'Titanic', President Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Adolf Hitler, the Beatles and Jack the Ripper! This one does!

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• Verlag: Ian Allan Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0711031703
• ISBN 13: 9780711031708
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256