The End of the Penny Section - SIGNED Collectors Edition by Graham Stewart

This is a second-hand copy of the book The End of the Penny Section - SIGNED Collectors Edition by Graham Stewart. This copy is number 80 of the 1993 collectors edition and is signed by the author Graham Stewart and Marie Hazledine-Barber a Christchurch tram driver. 

Condition: This is a used book in very good condition. The dustjacket spine has Sun fading and a 1cm tear to the back spine corner.

Publisher: Grantham House Publishing
Year: 1993 (originally published 1973)
ISBN: 9781869340377
Format: Hardback with dustjacket
Pages: 260
Condition: Used (Very Good)

This is the absorbing story of passenger transport in the urban streets of New Zealand. In the young colony, until waggonettes and drays uplifted people from the side of the muddy road, the only known means of locomotion within urban communities was Shanks's pony. Next came flimsy-looking horse-trams on steel rails and, later, snorting steam engines. Soon people could settle in outer suburbs that were now within range of employment, as land speculators financed and built lines to the mushrooming estate hamlets. Steep hills were tamed by magical cable cars that climbed by invisible power, and electric trams took over the major traffic routes. Until they were finally eclipsed by buses, the trams reigned supreme in our towns and cities for half a century, capturing the imagination of all urban New Zealanders...