Transport Retort, a newsletter from Transport 2000, 1976 - 2007
- Made:
- 1976-2007
- part of archive:
- Campaign for Better Transport Archive
Contains 30 volumes of Transport Retort, a journal of Transport 2000, and annual printed reports of Transport 2000. For the first 11 issues of volume 1 of its production, the publication was called Motorway Monthly and was circulated and produced by Friends of the Earth Ltd and edited by Mick Hamer, early board member of Transport 2000. From volume 1 issue 11, the publication was published by Transport 2000 and in volume 1 issue 12 was re-named Transport Retort. Editors include Mick Hamer, Susan Hoyle, and Stephen Joseph. Volumes generally map onto years and contain individual issues of the publication. A subscription in 1977 cost £2.50, and rose up to £16 per year in 1993. Journals started in monthly issues (twelve per year), then later to bi-monthly issues (six per year). Contents include monthly reports on roads, cartoons by V C H, Hardman, Ken Pyne, Alan Hardman, Pete Dredge, Kipper Williams, Margaret Welbank, and others, illustrations, news reports, indexes of preceding volumes (particularly in 1970s and early 1980s issues), editorials, adverts, special supplements (particularly in 1990s issues), updates on railway electrification and road building, heavy lorries, trams, Channel Tunnel progress, road taxes, Space, Time, and Transport editorial series, high speed rail, service and fare changes, British Rail changes, Serpell Report, Settle-Carlisle, the Armitage Report, freight, the Save our Railways campaign, and rail privatisation and franchising. Transport 2000 Annual Report 1988 is included among volume 11 issues.
Details
- Extent:
- 2 boxes containing 30 bundles
- Identifier:
- CFBT/2/1
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