If you are a person who would like to have flown in an airship, or traveled in a train whose carriage sat on stilts above the sea with its tracks below the water, or dreamed of riding on a London to New York railway that took twelve days to travel the long way around the world, or maybe just fancied fixing your bicycle to a railway track, then this book is for you. In this book you will find cars that flew, cars that floated on water and boats that ran on roads steam-powered airplanes, electric submarines, railways driven by pneumatic air, aircraft with flapping wings.and a whole lot more. Or maybe the surprising number of cars, boats and trains driven by airplane propellers.

Railway engines driven by horses, for example. John Wade began his journalistic career on local newspapers, where he worked his way from junior reporter to deputy editor He was.

LibraryThing is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. Over the years many weird and wonderful types of transport have come and gone, some of which succeeded against all odds, others that spectacularly failed, and some that never got beyond a designer's drawing board. John Wade, author of London Curiosities: The Capitals Odd & Obscure, Weird and Wonderful, on LibraryThing. How many of those who walk past Cleopatra’s Needle pause to consider why a 3,000-year-old Egyptian monument stands beside the Thames? How many know that what was once London’s smallest police station can be seen in Trafalgar Square? Or that pineapples are used in the architectural design of so many buildings? Or why there are memorials to the Mayflower and Pilgrim Fathers in Rotherhithe? Learn more about the capital of curiosities in this delightful guide for lovers of history, trivia, and travel.Print Transport Curiosities, 1850-1950 - Weird and Wonderful Ways of Travelling by Road, Rail, Air and Sea Who knew that beneath the Albert Memorial lies a chamber resembling a church crypt? Or that there are catacombs under Camden? Who would expect to find a lighthouse in East London, sphinxes in South London, dummy houses in West London, or a huge bust of film director Alfred Hitchcock in North London? London Curiosities: The Capital's Odd & Obscure, Weird & Wonderful Places by John Wade 5.0 eBook 13.49 17.99 Save 25 Instant Purchase Available on Compatible NOOK Devices and the free NOOK Apps.

London Curiosities by John Wade