A most deliberate swindle: how Edwardian fraudsters pulled the plug on the electric bus and left our citites gasping for breath
'That London could have had electric buses a hundred years ago is extraordinary enough, but as Mick Hamer recounts with great panache, the reason it didn't is even more extraordinary. This is a great tale, expertly told' - Michael Palin On a warm April morning in 1906 a crowd of expec...
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| Zusammenfassung: | 'That London could have had electric buses a hundred years ago is extraordinary enough, but as Mick Hamer recounts with great panache, the reason it didn't is even more extraordinary. This is a great tale, expertly told' - Michael Palin On a warm April morning in 1906 a crowd of expectant correspondents from London's leading newspapers gathered at the Hotel Cecil in the Strand to view the new wonder of the age - the electrobus. This clean, green machine was gearing up to take on the noisy, polluting petrol vehicle, which was just starting to replace the horse-drawn omnibus and surely had the potential to be a game changer in terms of what it would mean to Londoners and other city-dwellers who were already choking on petrol fumes. Disastrously though, the London Electrobus Company was in the grip of a gang of greedy and fraudulent financiers, who systematically conned shareholders, looted the company's coffers and drove the promise of the electrobus into the ground. Rammed with fascinating characters and vividly capturing the Edwardian era, A Most Deliberate Swindle uncovers one of the biggest frauds in history and reveals why a century later this historic scam has left us all gasping for breath |
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| adam_text | CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
1.
THE
FIRST ELECTROBUS
2.
A
BOGUS PATENT
3.
THE
LURE
OF
SIBERIAN
GOLD
4.
TWO CRIMINAL CONVICTIONS
5.
A
MOST DELIBERATE
SWINDLE
6.
THE
DRESS
REHEARSAL
7.
POST
OFFICE MOTORS
8.
A TRANSATLANTIC CON
9.
A FRESH
START
10.
A BRAWL
IN
THE
EDGWARE
ROAD
11.
ENTER
THE
BLACK PRINCE
12.
THE OTHER
BRIGHTON
RUN
13.
THE
FRENCH
SAILORS
14.
A BLACK
HOLE
15.
THE
SELL-OFF
16.
A
VEIL
OF
SECRECY
17.
THE GREEK ADVENTURER
18.
THE
WHISTLEBLOWER
19.
A
FRANCHISE
IN
FRAUD
20.
THE
BATTLE
OF IHE
BUSES
21.
BOOM,
BOUNCE
AND
BUST
$
B1IOTHEK
DEUTSCHES
MUSEUM
HLUENCHE A
1
9
17
26
39
50
59
66
73
83
95
105
116
126
139
148
154
160
171
179
190
198
CONTENTS
22.
THE
MASTER BLACKMAILER
23.
THE
TRENDSETTER
24.
A
NEW
TIPPING
POINT
EPILOGUE
NOTES
AND
REFERENCES
SELECT
BIBLIOGRAPHY
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
LIST
OF
ILLUSTRATIONS
INDEX
VIII
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