Extravaganza 79, 1879-1979, 100 Years of Electric Trams

Binding:	Softcover
Volume Condition:	Very Good
Dust Jacket:	No
Language:	English
Publication Year:	1979
Book ID:	009200
Catalogue(s):	Transportation

40pp stapled booklet in printed paper wrappers, black and white illustrations (wrappers have minor edge wear, and perhaps a little faded). Internally neat, clean and bright. Souvenir programme for the 12th Grand Transport Extragravaganza held at the Crich Tramway Village near Matlock, Derbyshire. With a full programme of events and entrants, it also includes articles on Electric Traction, tracing its 100 year history from the pioneering Siemen's dynamo-powered electric railway at the1879 Berlin Exhibition; the life and times of Frank Sprague, pioneer of the electric tramcar in the United States; and the history Blackpool's trams.

Keywords:

Electric traction trams tramcars transport