The Great Tramways Conspiracy
The covert campaign that killed off the British tram
$88.40
- Hardcover
232 pages
- Release Date
7 May 2026
Summary
Hundreds of thousands of people lined the streets of London to witness the royal opening of the London County Council’s first electric trams in 1903. The people loved their trams. But trams had powerful enemies. In the 1920s the tram-haters became increasingly vociferous. Articles and letters in the press condemned trams as old-fashioned and called for them to be scrapped.
Over the past seven years, Mick Hamer has scoured the archives to uncover evidence of a campaign that was meant t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781036143343 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1036143341 |
| Author: | Mick Hamer |
| Publisher: | Pen & Sword Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Pen & Sword Books Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 232 |
| Release Date: | 7 May 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 172mm x 246mm |
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Mick Hamer
Mick Hamer has been a freelance journalist for more than 40 years, writing mostly for Fleet Street papers and newsstand magazines. For most of this time he was New Scientist’s transport consultant. In 2001 he was shortlisted in the Syngenta science writing awards. His last book, A Most Deliberate Swindle, was named popular transport book of the year in 2018 by the Railway and Canal Historical Society.
Transport has been the focus of much of his journalism. He covered the public inquiries into the King’s Cross Fire, the Clapham train crash and the Zeebrugge ferry disaster for several national media organisations, including ITN and the Evening Standard.
Before taking up journalism he was Friends of the Earth’s first transport campaigner. In 1977 he became the first director of Transport 2000, and he later had a spell at the Transport Research Group at University College, London.
He lives in Brighton and Hove and has another life moonlighting as a jazz pianist.
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