Author: Chesterton, Ridley D.; Fenton, R. S.
Title: Gas and Electricity Colliers: The Sea-Going Ships Owned by the British Gas and Electricity Industries.
Description: Kendal, UK World Ship Society, 1984. 1st ed. Paperback small trade, good condition, black & white photos (including frontispiece), flags and funnels for gas and electricity colliers, light toning edges, few light creases along spine, spine & covers little faded, top corner front cover & some pages lightly creased, top spine little bumped, few tiny scuffs rear cover, minor edgewear, rubber name stamp inside front cover. 120 pp. From the foreword: This is the story of a group of ships that were very close to Douglas Ridley Chesterton's heart - the unlovely but hard-working fleet of colliers owned by the Gas and Electricity undertakings of London and the South East. He died in 1979, before he could finish the book, and it has been completed by R. S. Fenton. ISBN: 0905617339

Keywords: history, transport, maritime, ships, physics, electricity, britain 0905617339


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