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Don Hale - Mallard: How the 'Blue Streak' Broke the World Steam Speed Record
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- Hardback
- Artist
- Hale, Don
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- Date of Publication
- 20150806
- Type
- Hardback
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- 9781781314968
- ISBN
- 1781314969
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- Mallard: How the 'Blue Streak' Broke the World Steam Speed Record
- Title
- Mallard: How the 'Blue Streak' Broke the World Steam Speed Record
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- Publication Year
- 2015
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Mallard: How the 'blue Streak' Broke the World Steam Speed Record
- Item Height
- 198mm
- Publisher
- Aurum Press
- Topic
- Railway
- Item Width
- 129mm
- Number of Pages
- 192 Pages
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Seventy years ago, on 3 July 1938, on the East Coast main line, the streamlined A4 Pacific locomotive Mallard reached a top speed of 126mph - a world record for steam locomotives which still stands. Since then, millions have seen this famous locomotive, resplendent in her blue livery, on display at the National Railway Museum in York. Reissued for the 75th anniversary of the speed record, Don Hale tells the full story of how the record was broken, from the nineteenth century rivalry to be fastest between London and Scotland, and, surprisingly, traces Mallard's futuristic design to the Bugatti car and Germany's nascent Third Reich, which elevated the train into an instrument of national prestige. And he celebrates the singular figure of Mallard's designer, Sir Nigel Gresley, one of Britain's most gifted engineers. Mallard is a wonderfully nostalgic evocation of one of British technology's finest hours. Don Hale is the author of Town without Pity, about his investigation of the wrongful conviction of Stephen Downing for murder, for which Hale was awarded the OBE.
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Aurum Press
ISBN-13
9781781314968
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Book Title
Mallard: How the 'blue Streak' Broke the World Steam Speed Record
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Railway
Publication Year
2015
Number of Pages
192 Pages
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Item Height
198mm
Item Width
129mm
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United Kingdom
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