LizardKingJimLA69

An excellent hardback reference book giving separately a description/ details and black and white photograph of every class taken over by BR at nationalisation, first published in 1961 as 4 separate hardback parts, one each for London & North Eastern, Great Western, Southern and London Midland & Scottish. It was reprinted as one book in 1963 and again in 1965 at 21/- (£1.05), the two issues I have, each containing substantially different photographs. To this day I regret not buying the 4 part edition at a model railway exhibition back in the 1970s.

A good example of how the US Government and big business shafted the poor ordinary folk way into the 1950s and got around anyone trying to help them by accusing them of being commies and slinging them in jail for refusing to answer the question of whether or not they were. Destroying a social housing project (and no doubt many others) for greed and an LA Dodgers stadium. Not much has changed there then in the ensuing 60 or 70 years.