Geoffrey Hughes THE GRESLEY INFLUENCE First Edition
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Geoffrey Hughes THE GRESLEY INFLUENCE First Edition
First UK edition, first print hardback of THE GRESLEY INFLUENCE, by Geoffrey Hughes and published by Ian Allan, London in 1983.The book is in very good condition (Clean black cloth boards with gold lettering on spine), with some wear to the dust jacket, which is not price clipped (minor creasing to the edges, a small closed tear to the top corner, two inch split to front edge). Internally, the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears and no inscriptions. There is very slight yellowing to the pages.
Sir Nigel Gresley's enquiring mind and grasp of techniques were such that as an innovator in steam locomotive practice he was outstanding among the engineers of his day. In his streamline trains of the 1930s, the LNER led the way in passenger service and railway technology. Fortunately, engines such as the world famous Flying Scotsman, the well-known Sir Nigel Gresley, bearing his name, and Mallard, holder of the speed record for steam of 126 mph, have been preserved. The Gresley Influence is the product of Geoffrey Hughes's three years intensive research into LNER history and the work of eminent engineer, Sir Nigel Gresley.
"Throughout the century and half during which the technology of the steam locomotive moved forward to achieve a degree of development totally beyond the vision of the early 19th century pioneers, many engineers contributed to the evolution of the locomotive. But amongst them were a small number who stood head and shoulders above their fellows, possessing not only outstanding engineering ability but also the confidence to move forward the technology as a whole, combining component innovation and improvement with dimensional increase.
The Great Northern was fortunate in possessing one of these engineers: the subject of this study, Nigel Gresley, Appointed Locomotive Engineer of the GNR in 1911 at the age of 35, Gresley spent his remaining 30 years with Great Northern and its post-Grouping successor, the London & North Eastern Railway, introducing a series of locomotives renowned both for their performance and their elegance. His influence on design ranged from improvements to the engines of Ivatt to the greater part of the locomotives produced by his LNER successors.
Sir Nigel Gresley's outstanding contribution to the development of the steam locomotive has won him a unique place in the annals of locomotive engineering; his memory is revered by those who still recall the thrill of observing his locomotives in action, as well as by the ever growing numbers of enthusiasts to whom the days before railway nationalisation are a matter of history."
160 pages. Illustrated throughout with detailed locomotive line drawings and black & white photographs.
ISBN: 0 7110 1272 5
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