by O.S. Nock · HarperCollins Publishers Ltd · tapa dura · ISBN 9780043850930
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«A History of the LMS, vol. 2» is O.S. Nock's railway history work, published by HarperCollins Publishers Ltd in hardback (96 pages, in English).
This volume focuses on the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) in the 1930s, a period of records and modernisation. O.S. Nock reviews standardisation and efficiency improvements in locomotives, carriages, wagons, track, signalling, roads, docks and steamships, with black-and-white photographs.
Second volume of the Steam Past series, covering the period 1931-1939; first edition published in 1982.
For enthusiasts of railway history and the management of major transport companies.
Oswald Stevens Nock, B. Sc., DIC, C. Eng, M.I.C.E., M.I.Mech.E., M.I.Loco.E.,, nicknamed Ossie, was a British railway signal engineer and senior manager at the Westinghouse company; he is well known for his prodigious output of popularist publications on railway subjects, including over 100 books, as well as many more technical works on locomotive performance.
