Bagnalls of Stafford. Builders of locomotives for the world's railways

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First published 1973. Detailed narrative account. Has chapters: 'The Bagnall family, the firm, the antecedents'; 'Early locomotives and other products - the Giffords arrive'; 'The ear of Ernest Baguley'; 'The last years of William Gordon Bagnall'; 'John Gifford in control - towards the First World War'; 'The First World War - the ascendancy of W D Edwards'; 'Postwar expansion'; 'Difficult times - the end of an era of the Giffords'; 'Edwards in control - years of innovation'; 'The end of the Cadmans'; 'Alan Good takes over'; 'The Bush Bagnall partnership'; 'Life after Good - independence but at what price?'; 'The Dorman period [W H Dorman & Co Ltd]'; English Electric and after'. Has extensive appendices including family tree of Bagnall and associated families