Our World On Wheels: The History Of United Transport In South Africa 1962-1987 By T.B. Maund
Our World On Wheels: The History Of United Transport In South Africa 1962-1987 (Author-Signed Association Copy)
The Jubilee Chronology of Corporate Infrastructure, Passenger Transit, and Road Freight Evolution
The Jubilee Chronology of Corporate Infrastructure, Passenger Transit, and Road Freight Evolution
Bibliographic Specifications
- Title: Our World On Wheels: The History Of United Transport In South Africa 1962-1987
- Author: T.B. Maund (Tom B. Maund)
- Publisher: United Transport Management (Pty) Ltd, Ferndale, Randburg
- Publication Date: 1987
- ISBN-10: None Issued (Corporate Commemorative Release)
- Edition Details: First Edition, First Impression. Corporate Silver Jubilee Publication. Hand-signed and inscribed by the author on the title page.
- Binding: Hardcover with original publisher's heavy premium cloth boards, housed in the original illustrated dust jacket under a protective archive cellophane wrapper.
- Physical Format: Large Quarto Format (Oversized 4to), 200 pages. Richly illustrated with historical fleet photography, regional route maps, and corporate lineage charts.
- Language: English
Official Condition Report
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The Book: Very Good Plus (VG+) / Mint Internal State
- Exterior / Boards: The original publisher's heavy cloth boards are exceptionally sharp, perfectly square, and firm across all edges. The spine remains pristine, straight, robustly bound, and uncreased with flawless structural integrity.
- Interior: Exceptional, clean, tight, and immaculate. The 200 pages are crisp and unmarked, remaining totally free from handling soils, ink highlights, or finger smudges.
- Provenance: Features an authentic, highly collectible ink signature directly from the author, T.B. Maund, on the title page. A discreet, neat ownership rubber stamp is present on the second front preliminary page, providing an authentic touch of private library provenance without obscuring any historical text.
- Protection: Beautifully looked after and maintained, now professionally protected with a removable, archival-grade cellophane sleeve.
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The Dust Jacket: Very Good Plus (VG+)
- Condition: The original large-scale illustrated dust jacket is complete and unclipped. It exhibits only very slight, microscopic signs of standard shelf storage wear along the extreme corner tips, completely free of large chips, deep sun fading, or major tears.
Synopsis & Historical Value
Published in 1987 to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of the Group in South Africa, Our World On Wheels is an authoritative, meticulously researched corporate monograph that chronicles 25 years of passenger and freight infrastructure development. United Transport was highly unusual in that it approached the South African market from the north, having already established a massive transport network in East and Central Africa since 1948. Author T.B. Maund goes far beyond a basic corporate review, extending the narrative to trace the intricate historical origins of the many localized cartage firms, bus lines, and regional delivery systems absorbed into the Group during its massive expansion. Spanning the industrial transformation of South African road transport from the old era of horse and mule power to modern diesel fleet propulsion, this book serves as an invaluable primary-source record of corporate logistics, urban bus commuting networks, and economic history under the late-apartheid landscape before the group transitioned into the modern Unitrans label.
Published in 1987 to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of the Group in South Africa, Our World On Wheels is an authoritative, meticulously researched corporate monograph that chronicles 25 years of passenger and freight infrastructure development. United Transport was highly unusual in that it approached the South African market from the north, having already established a massive transport network in East and Central Africa since 1948. Author T.B. Maund goes far beyond a basic corporate review, extending the narrative to trace the intricate historical origins of the many localized cartage firms, bus lines, and regional delivery systems absorbed into the Group during its massive expansion. Spanning the industrial transformation of South African road transport from the old era of horse and mule power to modern diesel fleet propulsion, this book serves as an invaluable primary-source record of corporate logistics, urban bus commuting networks, and economic history under the late-apartheid landscape before the group transitioned into the modern Unitrans label.
Author Profile: T.B. Maund
Tom B. Maund was a highly distinguished transport historian, researcher, and authoritative archival author specializing in the development of public transit infrastructure, municipal bus lines, and railway cartage networks. Highly respected within industrial archaeology circles for his uncompromising technical fidelity and exhaustive mapping of fleet operations, Maund was directly commissioned by corporate management boards to catalog large-scale transit lineages. His publications are tightly held within institutional libraries and private Africana collections for their deep accuracy, reliance on unvarnished internal corporate logs, and vital preservation of regional logistical history.
Tom B. Maund was a highly distinguished transport historian, researcher, and authoritative archival author specializing in the development of public transit infrastructure, municipal bus lines, and railway cartage networks. Highly respected within industrial archaeology circles for his uncompromising technical fidelity and exhaustive mapping of fleet operations, Maund was directly commissioned by corporate management boards to catalog large-scale transit lineages. His publications are tightly held within institutional libraries and private Africana collections for their deep accuracy, reliance on unvarnished internal corporate logs, and vital preservation of regional logistical history.
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