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Seventy years ago, on 3 July 1938, on the East Coast main line, the streamlined A4 Pacific locomotive Mallard reached a top speed of 126mph - a world record for steam locomotives which still stands. Since then, millions have seen this famous locomotive, resplendent in her blue livery, on display at the National Railway Museum in York. Reissued for the 75th anniversary of the speed record, Don Hale tells the full story of how the record was broken, from the nineteenth century rivalry to be fastest between London and Scotland, and, surprisingly, traces Mallard's futuristic design to the Bugatti car and Germany's nascent Third Reich, which elevated the train into an instrument of national prestige. And he celebrates the singular figure of Mallard's designer, Sir Nigel Gresley, one of Britain's most gifted engineers. Mallard is a wonderfully nostalgic evocation of one of British technology's finest hours. Don Hale is the author of Town without Pity, about his investigation of the wrongful conviction of Stephen Downing for murder, for which Hale was awarded the OBE.

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Book category Books in English Technology, engineering, agriculture Technology: general issues History of engineering & technology

• Full title: Mallard
• Subtitle: How the 'Blue Streak' Broke the World Speed Record - Fully Updated for the 75th Anniversary
• Author: Don Hale
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 192
• EAN: 9781781314968
• ISBN: 1781314969
• ID: 09244195
• Publisher: Aurum Press Ltd
• Weight: 419 g
• Dimensions: 210 × 150 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 06. August 2015

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