Motor Coaches and Charabancs
The coach - distinguished from the bus by its use for longer-haul and more comfortable trips - has a long and august history. Its origins lie in the charabanc, a long open-topped vehicle used to transport passengers on works outings and pleasure excursions. Over time, coaches came to be enclosed and fitted with more comfortable seating and higher-quality bodywork than the charabancs and the buses used on shorter routes. By the 1960s and 1970s on-board toilets began to be fitted, and despite a decline due to private car ownership, coach travel remains popular, with Wi-Fi, electric sockets and even video screens now built in. This colourful int…
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- ISBN: 978-1-78442-412-1
- EAN: 9781784424121
- Produktnummer: 31819096
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 64 S.
- Masse: H15.0 cm x B20.9 cm x D0.7 cm 152 g
- Abbildungen: Fully illustrated throughout
- Gewicht: 152
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
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James Taylor has been researching and writing about motoring history for more than thirty years and is a respected author on many different automotive subjects. He has written more than one hundred books, including Land Rover and Family Cars of the 1970s for Shire.
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