Ian Allan ABC Locomotive Series - famous locomotive types No. 3; the Stanier Pacifics of the LMS by Cecil J Allen, 1948
One of the earlier Ian Allan booklets that was aimed at railway enthusiasts and that was a market so well tapped into by Ian Allan you could say he effectively invented the niche market of railway 'spotters' books. In the following decades his publishing house provided the staple goods for the generation of post-war British transport enthusiasts when 'engine spotting' was such a popular pastime. The cover of this is in the London Midland & Scottish Railway's maroon livery and is quite forceful with the multiple outlines of the locomotive type. It includes the pre-war streamlined versions that were introduced in 1937 for the express run between London and Glasgow via the West Coast route and that were known as the Coronation class in line with the 1937 Coronation of King George IV. The locomotive designer and chief engineer for the LMS was Sir William Stanier. The artwork is by a well-known railway and transport artist, A N Wolstenholme who worked mostly in scraperboard so this is quite skilful in execution. He produced many Ian Allan book covers as well as work for British Railways themselves after they were formed in 1948 when the LMSR became part of the new nationalised industry.
Ian Allan ABC Locomotive Series - famous locomotive types No. 3; the Stanier Pacifics of the LMS by Cecil J Allen, 1948
One of the earlier Ian Allan booklets that was aimed at railway enthusiasts and that was a market so well tapped into by Ian Allan you could say he effectively invented the niche market of railway 'spotters' books. In the following decades his publishing house provided the staple goods for the generation of post-war British transport enthusiasts when 'engine spotting' was such a popular pastime. The cover of this is in the London Midland & Scottish Railway's maroon livery and is quite forceful with the multiple outlines of the locomotive type. It includes the pre-war streamlined versions that were introduced in 1937 for the express run between London and Glasgow via the West Coast route and that were known as the Coronation class in line with the 1937 Coronation of King George IV. The locomotive designer and chief engineer for the LMS was Sir William Stanier. The artwork is by a well-known railway and transport artist, A N Wolstenholme who worked mostly in scraperboard so this is quite skilful in execution. He produced many Ian Allan book covers as well as work for British Railways themselves after they were formed in 1948 when the LMSR became part of the new nationalised industry.