£300 - £400
Railwayana, Americana - Riddles (Colonel Robert Arthur "Robin" Riddles, CBE, MIMechE, MinstLE), Tour of "Coronation Scot" in U.S.A., 1939, a unique illustrated narrative compiled while Chief Mechanical & Electrical Engineer to the London, Midland, Scotland & Scottish Railway (LMS), illustrated with b/w professional and snapshot photographs of the train, its carriages, and their interiors (principally first class), both posed and in-action, and both stationery and moving (sometimes in transit), some of the professional photographs taken for advertising purposes and are modelled with 'passengers'; while the carriages sailed over the Atlantic on the ship Belpamela, the railway officials travelled on R.M.S. "Queen Mary" and docked at New York, and there are some sepia photographs of New York in its Art Deco glory; the journey is further illustrated with newspaper clippings, a map of the train's route across America, and further ephemera as well as more photographs, including other locomotives, and the engine's terminus and display at the World Fair etc., contemporary gilt-lettered black cloth album, large 4to (34.5cm x 37.5cm), [1]
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