Name: A Most Deliberate Swindle: How Edwardian Fraudsters Pulled the Plug on the Electric bus and Left our Cities Gasping for Breath (en Inglés)
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Author: Mick Hamer
ISBN: 9781910453421

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A Most Deliberate Swindle: How Edwardian Fraudsters Pulled the Plug on the Electric bus and Left our Cities Gasping for Breath (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Reddoor Publishing Ltd

Autor

Mick Hamer

Año

2017

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

240

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9781910453421

Categorías

Historia social y cultural

A Most Deliberate Swindle: How Edwardian Fraudsters Pulled the Plug on the Electric bus and Left our Cities Gasping for Breath (en Inglés)

Mick Hamer (Autor) · Reddoor Publishing Ltd · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "A Most Deliberate Swindle: How Edwardian Fraudsters Pulled the Plug on the Electric bus and Left our Cities Gasping for Breath (en Inglés)"

'That London could have had electric buses a hundred years ago is extraordinary enough, but as Mick Hamer recounts with great panache, the reason it didn't is even more extraordinary. This is a great tale, expertly told' - Michael Palin On a warm April morning in 1906 a crowd of expectant correspondents from London's leading newspapers gathered at the Hotel Cecil in the Strand to view the new wonder of the age - the electrobus. This clean, green machine was gearing up to take on the noisy, polluting petrol vehicle, which was just starting to replace the horse-drawn omnibus and surely had the potential to be a game changer in terms of what it would mean to Londoners and other city-dwellers who were already choking on petrol fumes. Disastrously though, the London Electrobus Company was in the grip of a gang of greedy and fraudulent financiers, who systematically conned shareholders, looted the company's coffers and drove the promise of the electrobus into the ground. Rammed with fascinating characters and vividly capturing the Edwardian era, A Most Deliberate Swindle uncovers one of the biggest frauds in history and reveals why a century later this historic scam has left us all gasping for breath.