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05 January 2012
A good referance book,but an updated edition is badly needed.
The first 63 or so pages of this book are devoted to a general history of commercial vehicles from 1500 right through to recent times,and along the way,it documents such road vehicles as the 1769-1770 Nicolas Cugnot Artillery Steam Tractor,Richard Trevithick's 1801 Steam Road Carriage,Walter Hancock's Steam Coaches of the 1830s-1840s,the 1896 Thornycroft Steam Van,early petrol lorries and buses,steam lorries,diesel lorries,buses and motorcoaches and so on in well-illustrated pages.Both the history and the colour and black & white pictures are international in scope,but with a bias towards British and American commercial vehicles.
I said that the history part goes up to recent times,as does the A to Z of lorry and bus marques section of this book:It was originally published in circa 1982-1983,and though this edition was published in 2002,this book has not been updated,except for the newly-designed dustjacket.
The encyclopedia proper starts on page 66 and runs to 256 pages with a very good number of black & white photographs.The A to Z format has individual detailed entries
on the models and histories of each marque,including the obscure and the not so-obvious ones,such as Annis,a heavy haulage company that built two heavy haulage road locomotives based on Diamond T 980's.There is also a list of minor makes and a glossary at the back of the book.
Summing up,this is a good referance book,but an updated edition ought to be published.
Foden7SDRL
05 October 2011
BIG COUNTRY:Great Modern Scottish Highland Fling Rock N'Roll Music!
BIG COUNTRY is a Scottish rock music group-band,whose great music is best
summarised as Scottish Modern Highland Fling Rock N'Roll Music.The band have a distinctive musical sound and musical arrangements,employing the
MXR Pitch Transposer 129 Guitar Effect to make the guitars sound like bagpipes and the EBow,an electronic device which makes a guitar sound more like strings or a synthesizer.So,to quote from Wikipedia:-Big Country "were notable for music infused with Scottish folk and martial music styles, as well as for playing and engineering their guitar driven sound to evoke the inspirational spirit of bagpipes, fiddles and other traditional folk instruments." Therefore,their great rock music is a fascinating and very enjoyable synthesis. It was masterminded by the late
Stuart Adamson,and this now Cult Rock Music Group also consisted of Bruce
Watson,Tony Butler and Mark Brzezicki.
A VHS Video Cassette was released quite a few years since of Big Country's
greatest hits,and this DVD has all the records-videos that are on the above video,plus some extra music video films including the Disco 12" Version of One Great Thing that has a disco beat, scratch,repeat,etc,Fragile Thing,that features the great Eddi Reader - she's a great singer! - and Harvest Home,which is not on the original video
compilation,and shows off Tony Butler's great robot abrupt movement-style
of grooving-dancing to the music as he's playing the outro to this song on his guitar.
The music is great,while the video-films for this music are entertaining and varied in both content and locations,such as North America,the Scottish Highlands,various television and recording studios,etc.And probably the most grittily realistic song-film is The East Of Eden,which is set in 1952 complete with period clothes,motor vehicles (including a magnificent preserved and restored 1936 Leyland Hippo,Flat-Bodied,6x4 Lorry,ATE 328),dramatic story line,filmed in black & white,interspersed with colour studio shots of the band performing the song. The Teacher song-film features a wise intelligent teacher who,although a human male in appearence,is either an Angel or a Space Being - or both! He passes the Key Of Cosmic Knowledge on to Stuart Adamson. The riff bridge,played on the guitars,after the chorus of this song is a perfect example of superb
modern Scottish Highland Fling Rock N'Roll Music!
Stuart Adamson was a proud Scotsman,a great song writer and musician who virtually invented the highly successful Scottish Highland Fling Rock N'Roll Music,and this DVD is a great tribute to Stuart,Big Country and their superb and distinctive music. Robert-Foden7SDRL.
17 August 2018
It's a great compass.
It works in every way.