A most deliberate swindle : how Edwardian fraudsters pulled the plug on the electric bus and left our cities gasping for breath
Hamer, Mick2017
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On a warm April morning in 1906 a crowd of expectant correspondents from London's leading newspapers gathered at the Hotel Cecil in the Strand to view the new wonder of the age - the electrobus. Disastrously though, the London Electrobus Company was in the grip of a gang of greedy and fraudulent financiers, who systematically conned shareholders, looted the company's coffers and drove the promise of the electrobus into the ground. 'A Most Deliberate Swindle' uncovers one of the biggest frauds in history and reveals why a century later this historic scam has left us all gasping for breath.
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Burgess Hill : RedDoor Publishing, 2017.Burgess Hill : RedDoor Publishing, 2017.
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256 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:
9781910453421 (pbk)
Dewey class:
388.34233
Language:
English
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BRN:
1799199