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Название: The Princess Royal Pacifics (Locomotive Portfolios) Автор: Tim Hillier-Graves Издательство: Pen and Sword ISBN: 1473885787 Год: 2018 Формат: PDF Страниц: 224 Размер: 196,7 МБ Язык: Английский
When Stanier joined the LMS in 1932, as their CME, he was expected to breathe new life into this ailing giant. Since its formation it had steadily lost ground to its main rival, the LNER. In Doncaster, Nigel Gresley and his team, with an eye to advancing locomotive design at the same time as making the company commercially successful, had quickly begun producing a series of high performance and iconic Pacific engines to pull their high profile express trains.