BOOK REVIEWS
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TRUCK NOSTALGIA
PERHAPS the best feature of Truck Nostalgia (Blandford Press; £10.95) is its front cover, done in the manner of classic truck advertisements of 30 or more years ago.
It certainly raises expectations of an Orgy of atmospheric photographs of the truck scene of the late Forties and the Fifties, and while author Arthur Ingram has injected much of that into his book, nothing quite lives up to the promise of the cover.
Financial necessity meant that most of the pictures Ingram took at the time were in the London area, but he has nevertheless covered much that has been almost forgotten in the tides of modernisation which have changed the transport industry.
There are rigid lorries galore, notably on long distance trunk work; there arc contemporary signwritten vehicles; many remarkably old vehicles; and several remarkably badly maintained vehicles. The impact of annual testing is very apparent when one considers these views against the generally good condition of today's lorries. A.L.M. Blandford Press, Link House, West Street, Poole, Dorset BH15 1LL.