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GWR Railcar's

Discussion in 'Diesel & Electric Traction' started by Rlangham, Jun 10, 2010.

  1. Rlangham

    Rlangham Well-Known Member

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    Does anyone have any images showing GWR Publicity involving the diesel railcars, especially the streamlined pre-WW2 railcars? I haven't found any so far, but would have thought they'd be a great marketing tool and would appear in posters/adverts etc

    Cheers, Rob
     
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    Both of the Railcar Books 1 puplished by OPC and written by Russel and the other by Wild Swan, written by C.W.Judge have copies of AEC Publicity Material in them. I don't have a flat bed Scanner, so I am unable to copy them

    Whhooppss bit of a mix up on the book info front. The J.H.Russel book, was published by Wild Swan, and the C.W.Judge book was published by OPC
     
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    Thanks - I do mean to get the book but money's a bit tight at the moment, even more reason to get it when pay day finally comes out about
     
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    The better of the 2 books is the one by C.W.Judge, so if you can find it at reasonable cost go for that one.
     
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    I can also recommend The British Railcar ( AEC to HST ) by R.M. Tufnell pub David & Charles 1984 ISBN 0-7153-8529-1 ewhich discusses the railcars within the conext of late DMU developments
     
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    The "Judge" book from 1986 was reissued as a paperback in 2008 and is available as new copies on Amazon (from Marketplace sellers rather than Amazon themselves) for just over £13 plus shipping. The original hardback looks expensive secondhand so would appear to be somewhat scarce.

    (Full title: "History of the Great Western AEC diesel railcars.")

    Edit: The Tufnell "British Railcar" book from 1984 looks to be about £9-40..ish for a decent copy on Amazon. ( plus the £2-75 shipping of course....
     
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    Bought a Judge reprint paperback from Amazon earlier this year for exactly that reason 46118. Tufnell is also well worth having, I have both in my office book cupboard!
     
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    http://www.amazon.co.uk/History-Gre...=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1278539261&sr=1-1
     
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