Built in Britain. Independent locomotive manufacturing industry in the nineteenth century

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Author(s) Bailey, Michael R
Publication type Monograph
Year published 2021
Pages 221pp; illus
Publisher Railway & Canal Historical Society
Place Published Market Drayton

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Name National Railway Museum Library
City York
County North Yorkshire
Country England
Postcode YO26 4XJ
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Business profiles & biographies

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Provides an overview of the industry's challenges, successes and failures through the nineteenth century, drawing on the writer's doctoral thesis 'Decision Making Processes in the Manufacturing Sector. The independent locomotive industry in the nineteenth century', DPhil, York, 1999. An appendix lists c100 locations [and firms] where locomotive manufacture took place