The Modified Bulleid Pacifics, 9781526721662
Hardcover
Controversial steam engines reborn: innovation, modification, and soaring ambition revealed.

The Modified Bulleid Pacifics

how ron jarvis reconstructed the bulleid pacifics

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  • Hardcover

    280 pages

  • Release Date

    19 June 2019

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Summary

Oliver Bulleid’s Pacifics were perhaps the most controversial steam locomotives ever built in Britain. They seem to been loved and loathed in equal measure and the debate over their strengths and weaknesses took on a new dimension when BR decided to modify them in the 1950s. It was argued that they were too costly to operate and maintain, by comparison to other types available. Their time out of service, due to breakdowns, was also increasing to an unacceptable level, and some of Bulleid’s in…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781526721662
ISBN-10:152672166X
Author:Tim Hillier-Graves
Publisher:Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Imprint:Pen & Sword Transport
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:280
Release Date:19 June 2019
Weight:1.40kg
Dimensions:240mm x 250mm
Series:Locomotive Portfolio
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Critics Review

“Profusely illustrated thoroughly, “The Modified Bulleid Pacifics” is an extraordinary and singularly informative study that will prove to be an enduringly valued addition to personal, community, and academic library British Railway History collections and supplemental studies reading lists.“– “Midwest Book Review”

About The Author

Tim Hillier-Graves

Tim Hillier-Graves was born in North London in 1951. On leaving university he served with the Royal Navy seeing wide service on land and sea. For much of this time he specialised in weapons development projects, specifically missiles and heavyweight torpedoes, and worked alongside BAe, Marconi Space and Defence Systems and McDonnell Douglas in the process. In support of this work he undertook prolonged periods of study and research at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, and the Royal Military College of Science, Shrivenham. Late in his career he changed specialisms and focussed on Human Resource Management and outsourcing, then as an Assistant Director took on responsibility of housing for military personnel. He retired in 2011 to concentrate more fully on writing and has had a number of books and articles on the Navy, railway engineering, aviation and military history published since the 1970s. All the royalties from his books have been and will be donated to Cancer Research UK in memory of his many relatives and friends who have succumbed to these illnesses.

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