Steel Wheels & Rubber Tyres Vol 1 Autobiography of

Here is the author's attempt to provide present day transport enthusiasts with just a flavour of what it was like to be so involved from the middle of the 20th century through the next few decades when almost non-stop change was the name of the game. Before one reached the dizzy heights of finding the legend 'General Manager' affixed to your office door one had to obtain a suitable start in the industry and thereafter try to make progress as opportunity allowed. If anything, obtaining that first start could be far from easy. Here then is the story of how one interested but uniformed schoolboy tried to attain his early and overriding ambition to see his name on the side, preferably of a municipal tramcar, against those almost magic words 'General Manager'.