Reviews
Built in Britain
By Michael R Bailey
MBE ALTHOUGH The RM’s souvenir issue on British locomotive builders (published in 2012 and updated in 2015), provided a good basic overview of the subject, surprisingly little in-depth data has appeared in print concerning the independent manufacturers.
A number of books have focused on individual firms, particularly the larger ones such as Hunslet, but no business assessment has been carried out on the industry as a whole. That state of affairs has now been rectified in this scholarly work by Dr Michael Bailey, although the material focuses largely on the 19th century.