Love affair with Glasgow's unloved trolleys

摘要

Friends used to joke that the T in Brian T. Deans's name (actually for Templeton) stood for Trolleybus, as few knew as much as he did about them in general and especially those of his adopted home city of Glasgow, which in April 1949 were the last to be introduced in the UK and the only ones in Scodand for 35 years. His extensive research as a teenager established his reputation as the best-informed authority on the Glasgow system, which briefly was the UK's third largest, behind London and Belfast. His first book about it, with the same title as this one, appeared in September 1966 when he was still 19 and its trolleybuses had only eight more months to run. A supplement and two updated editions followed over the next 11 years.