P&O Ferries Across Five Decades traces the roots, history and development of how P&O Ferries came to be established as Britain's biggest and leading ferry company. P&O Ferries today operates a fleet of 22 ships serving France, Belgium, the Netherlands, the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. This title traces how P&O Ferries has established itself over the last 50 years, together with the history of Thoresen Car Ferries, P&O Normandy Ferries, the Transport Ferry Service and Townsend Car Ferries, which later became Townsend Thoresen, Britain's leading and iconic ferry company serving Europe and Ireland during the seventies and eighties. The continental routes to Belgium and Holland and to Northern Ireland were originally the brainwave of Frank Bustard with his LST landing craft, which opened services on the North Sea and Irish Sea after the Second World War. This operation was later nationalised and then sold to Townsend Thoresen. The routes from Hull to Holland and Belgium, established by P&O in the sixties, were pioneers of freight operations between the UK and continental Europe with their first ships the Norwaveand Norwind. Following the demise of Townsend Thoresen and the rebranding of operations as P&O European Ferries in 1987, the operations on the North Sea were later absorbed under one management in Dover under P&O Ferries. The book also includes a short history of P&O Scottish Ferries up until its demise in 2002 when the routes to Orkney and Shetland were taken over by NorthLink.P&O Ferries Across Five Decades is being published as part of the 175th anniversary of P&O in 2012

The ATL-98 Carvair is a truly unusual aircraft. Converted from 19 C-54 World War II transport planes and two DC-4 airliners into a small fleet of air ferries by Aviation Traders of Southend, England, the Carvair allowed commercial air passengers to accompany their automobiles onboard the aircraft. The planes were dispersed throughout the world, operating for 75 airlines and transporting cars, royalty, rock groups, refugees, whales, rockets, military vehicles, gold, and even nuclear material. After more than 45 years, two Carvairs were in 2008 still in service. This comprehensive history of the ATL-98 Carvair, begins with corporate histories and profiles of key players, including William Patterson, Donald Douglas, and Freddie Laker. Four chapters illustrate the evolution of the car-ferry as a viable aircraft, the history of Aviation Traders, engineering details incorporated into the Carvair's production, and major Carvair operators. Chapters on each of the fleet's 21 planes provide individual histories and anecdotes. Seven appendices provide several kinds of data and the book is fully indexed.

Exploring the themes of the human relationship with the marine environment and the ways in which the peoples of Northern Europe have experienced and exploited their seas, this book reveals how human perception of the northern seas has changed over time. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, from Denmark and Britain to Norway, Finland and Germany, The Baltic and the North Seas is an insightful and colourful history of the politics, economy and culture of this intriguing region.

Commissioned by the Cabinet Office and using hitherto untapped British Government records, this book presents an in-depth analysis of the successful project of 1986-94. This is a vivid portrayal of the complexities of quadripartite decision-making (two countries, plus the public and private sectors), revealing new insights into the role of the British and French Governments in the process. This important book, written by Britain’s leading transport historian, will be essential reading for all those interested in PPPs, British and European economic history and international relations. The building of the Channel Tunnel has been one of Europe’s major projects and a testimony to British-French and public-private sector collaboration. However, Eurotunnel’s current financial crisis provides a sobering backcloth for an examination of the British Government’s long-term flirtation with the project, and, in particular, the earlier Tunnel project in the 1960s and early 1970s, which was abandoned by the British Government in 1975.

This new and compelling fifth edition charts the changing story of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and covers political, social and economic history.

This marvellous book first appeared in 1888 in England and explains everything a boater should know.

The timely delivery of aircraft was crucial in the Second World War. This is a full account of the pioneering efforts of the Ferry Command, whose efforts spawned international air travel as we now know it.