Description
William Alfred Webb landed in South Australia in 1922. His assignment: to rehabilitate the ailing State-owned railway system. In next to no time he found one very obvious weakness; an inadequate, run down and completely inefficient locomotive fleet. Taking the bull by the horns, he right away appointed Fred Shea from Victoria as his new Chief Mechanical Engineer, setting Fred on the road to becoming one of Australia’s great engineers.
Ron Stewien’s second book in the series on the history of the South Australian Railways promises to be a welcome companion to Ron and Malcolm Thompson’s Volume 1 The Early Years. Ron has skipped to Volume 6 at the request of readers anxious to read about the mighty 500, 600, 700, 710 and 720 Class locomotives inspired by Commissioner Webb and delivered by Shea, his outstanding Chief Mechanical Engineer.
Specifications:
Publisher: Eveleigh Press
Published: 01/11/2010
Pages: 340
Volume: 6
Format: Hardcover
