Roads & Road Transport History Association - Companion to British Road Haulage History

Published by the Science Museum and edited by John Armstrong, John Aldridge, Grahame Boyes, Gordon Mustoe and Richard Storey, this is the first encyclopaedic reference work to address in depth the subject of road haulage in Britain throughout the twentieth century.

The Companion to British Road Haulage History presents some 600 cross-referenced articles on the business, economic, legal, administrative, technical and social aspects of road freight transport in Britain, from the very beginning of the motor vehicle era, through the slow transition from horse-drawn transport, to modern heavy lorries.

The editorial team comprised:
John Armstrong - Professor of Business History at Thames Valley University and from 1989 to 2001 was editor of the Journal of Transport History.
John Aldridge - transport journalist and author of several books on the history of bus transport.
Grahame Boyes - President of the Railway and Canal Historical Society and a contributor to the Oxford Companion to British Railway History.
Gordon Mustoe - retired librarian and the author of Fisher Renwick 1874-1972 and British Road Services: the early years, and the forthcoming book The Express Carrier.
Richard Storey - former archivist of the University of Warwick Modern Records Centre, a significant repository of records of the road haulage industry.

ISBN 1 900747 46 4, 544 pages, 190 illustrations; 248 x 177mm hardback

Individual copies are available from:
RRTHA c/o Kithead Trust, De Salis Drive, Hampton Lovett, DROITWICH, WR9 0QE
priced at £24.95 including postage and packing. Cheques payable to the “Roads and Road Transport History Association Ltd”, please.

In preparation: The Companion to Public Road Transport History in Great Britain and Ireland