Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- Foreword and Acknowledgements
- Conversion Factors for Imperial Measurements
- Introduction: The Port of Liverpool in 1905
- Chapter 1 The Port and Its Trade in 1905
- Chapter 2 Gladstone Dock
- Chapter 3 Not Before Time: The Board Keeps its Promise
- Chapter 4 Engineering, Management and Decision-making
- Chapter 5 Making the Customers Happy
- Chapter 6 Sand, Silt and Sewage: The Work of the Board's Dredgers
- Chapter 7 The Provision of Specialist Cargo Facilities
- Chapter 8 Into the Modern World?
- Conclusion: On the Eve of War
- Appendix: Port Efficiency: A Short Methodological Discourse
- A Note on Sources: Abbreviations
- Bibliography
- Index
Foreword and Acknowledgements
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- Foreword and Acknowledgements
- Conversion Factors for Imperial Measurements
- Introduction: The Port of Liverpool in 1905
- Chapter 1 The Port and Its Trade in 1905
- Chapter 2 Gladstone Dock
- Chapter 3 Not Before Time: The Board Keeps its Promise
- Chapter 4 Engineering, Management and Decision-making
- Chapter 5 Making the Customers Happy
- Chapter 6 Sand, Silt and Sewage: The Work of the Board's Dredgers
- Chapter 7 The Provision of Specialist Cargo Facilities
- Chapter 8 Into the Modern World?
- Conclusion: On the Eve of War
- Appendix: Port Efficiency: A Short Methodological Discourse
- A Note on Sources: Abbreviations
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
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- In Troubled TimesThe Port of Liverpool, 1905-1938, pp. x - xiPublisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2003