Charles Dunbar (1900–1993)
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Dunbar, Charles
- Nome legale
- Dunbar, Charles Stuart
- Altri nomi
- Dunbar, Chas. S.
Dunbar, C. S. - Data di nascita
- 1900-11-14
- Data di morte
- 1993-08-14
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Great Malvern Cemetery, Worcestershire, UK
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Luogo di residenza
- London, England, UK
Malvern, Worcestershire, England, UK - Breve biografia
- Charles Dunbar (1900-1993) began work as an editorial assistant on a London weekly newspaper in 1919 and from 1921-1930 he was circulation and transport manager for an evening newspaper company. He then joined the staff of the Birmingham & Midland Motor Omnibus Company. In 1933 he established his own express parcels delivery company, 'Red Arrow Deliveries' and was the first chairman of the National Conference of Express Carriers. During the Second World War he worked for the Ministry of War Transport and, later, in Belgium for the Inter-Allied European Central Inland Transport Organisation. He became a freelance transport journalist and transport consultant and was the first editor of 'Buses Illustrated'. He published 'The rise of road transport 1919-1939' (1981). In 1968 he was awarded the Crow medal by the Chartered Institute of Transport.
Reference: 'Buses', October 1993.
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Buses, trolleys and trams di Charles Stuart Dunbar
As a child, I loved this book. I would bring it out from our local library time and again. Although my father was a railwayman - which influenced my later interest in railways, though only after he left the railway service - when very young I loved buses. We had no car but lived on a bus route, and the bus was our connection to the larger world outside. Even if we were going further afield, to visit family or to go on holiday, all journeys began and ended with the bus. This book showed me that something as commonplace as the bus had universal application, and gave me a link between the everyday and the exotic. Our vicinity to the Tramway Museum at Crich in Derbyshire also gave me an insight into what by then was an almost vanished form of transport in the UK, so this book told me more about those vehicles, as well. I was delighted to be able to obtain a facsimile reprint edition after forty years.… (altro)
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