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The White Funnel Handbook : official handbook of P. & A. Campbell Ltd., Bristol 8 : [E. J. Burrow & Co. Ltd. ] nd [c.1938]
A rather fine handbook that details "a summary of the principal resorts served by the White Funnel fleet in the Bristol and English Channels". P. & A. Campbell had origins in the bustling steamer trade of the Firth of Clyde in the late Nineteenth Century and indeed two of their steamers sold to the Caledonian Railway in 1888 and that helped form the nucleus of the Caledonian Steam Packet Company.
The founder's sons decided to relocate the business to Bristol and the White Funnel Line was formed in 1893. By the time of this handbook a fleet of eleven vessels are shown, all paddle steamers; P.S. Britannia, P.S. Cambria, P.S. Devonia, P.S. Waverley, P.S. Glen Gower, P.S. Brighton Queen, P.S. Glen Avon, P.S. Glen Usk, P.S. Westward Ho, P.S. Ravenwood and the P.S. Brighton Belle. As can be gathered from the names the vessels sailed extensively in the waters of the Bristol Channel, to resorts in South Wales and then around Lands End and along the English South Coast, including the Isle of Wight, and as far as Sussex.
The unattributed cover shows some of the dapper clientele enjoying the ocean breeze. Unusually for such a publication the name of the publishing company, Burrow's, is not particularly advertised.
The White Funnel Handbook : official handbook of P. & A. Campbell Ltd., Bristol 8 : [E. J. Burrow & Co. Ltd. ] nd [c.1938]
A rather fine handbook that details "a summary of the principal resorts served by the White Funnel fleet in the Bristol and English Channels". P. & A. Campbell had origins in the bustling steamer trade of the Firth of Clyde in the late Nineteenth Century and indeed two of their steamers sold to the Caledonian Railway in 1888 and that helped form the nucleus of the Caledonian Steam Packet Company.
The founder's sons decided to relocate the business to Bristol and the White Funnel Line was formed in 1893. By the time of this handbook a fleet of eleven vessels are shown, all paddle steamers; P.S. Britannia, P.S. Cambria, P.S. Devonia, P.S. Waverley, P.S. Glen Gower, P.S. Brighton Queen, P.S. Glen Avon, P.S. Glen Usk, P.S. Westward Ho, P.S. Ravenwood and the P.S. Brighton Belle. As can be gathered from the names the vessels sailed extensively in the waters of the Bristol Channel, to resorts in South Wales and then around Lands End and along the English South Coast, including the Isle of Wight, and as far as Sussex.
The unattributed cover shows some of the dapper clientele enjoying the ocean breeze. Unusually for such a publication the name of the publishing company, Burrow's, is not particularly advertised.