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Thirty Years Around the World: Adventures of a Railway Signals Engineer

Author(s):

Webb, Wolstan

Illustrator(s):

Binding:

Hardcover

Volume Condition:

Very Good

Dust Jacket:

Dust Jacket Condition:

N/A

Dust Jacket Protection:

N/A

Edition:

1st Edition

Impression:

1st Impression

Signature:

None

Language:

English

Publisher Name:

Privately Published

Publication Year:

1991

Publication Place:

Nyons, FR

ISBN:

–

Book ID:

035173

Catalogue(s):

Autobiography and Biography ◇ Transportation

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226pp, sparsely illustrated in black and white, with three sketched maps at rear. Laminated stiff card covers. 8vo. Gentle edge wear to card covers. front cover slightly lifting, else neat, clean, bright and tight throughout.

Wolstan Webb was a railway signals engineer, but one with an extraordinary, adventurous career. This, his memoirs, focus on his professional career and a lifetime connected with railways. He described his travels between 1938 and his retirement in 1968. These take him to Argentina and then to the US during the Second World War, where he provided liaison between the British and American Air Forces in the new development of new and secret weaponry, and then back to Argentina during the Peron regime. Later, he serves with the United Nations as adviser to the Iranian State Railways (and then Pakistan and India), and then later still, as a Senior Lecturer at the Railway Training Centre in Lahore.

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