The Truckie Who Loved Trains

The Biography of Ken Thomas

David Wilcox, Tony Saunders

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English

ABC Audio
01 January 2015

Biography: business & industry; Entrepreneurship

This is the story of an evolution. It covers the dramatic change in Australian transport over the twenty five years after World War Two. In that time so many important changes occurred.

They include the sorting out of the railway gauge problems; the dieselisation of the railways; the Hughes and Vale road tax decision; the arrival of containers and roll-on roll-off shipping. Best of all, the marriage of road and rail freight operations.

These things did not happen by nature taking its course; they happened because driven men could see a better way. One of the leaders of these men was Ken Thomas.

By: David Wilcox
Read by: Tony Saunders
Imprint: ABC Audio
Country of Publication: Australia
Edition: Unabridged edition
Dimensions: Height: 134mm, Width: 146mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 205g
ISBN: 9781486258468
ISBN 10: 1486258468
Publication Date: 01 January 2015
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Active

David Wilcox has had an interest in transport since boyhood. The first fifteen years of his business career were in the transport industry. Initially this was in the overseas passenger services of P&O, and their Australian agents, Macdonald Hamilton and Co. In the mid 1950s David saw the coming decline in the passenger liner service as airlines developed, so considered his career options. The Hughes and Vale decision prompted a move to road transport, and a trainee position at Mayne Nickless. At age 21 he was their first general freight salesman in Sydney. From there he went to F.H.Stephens, and in due course was their NSW sales manager. David was in the initial class of the Transport Administration Course offered by the Sydney Technical College. He graduated and became a member of the Institute Of Transport in 1958. For family reasons he left the Industry and spent thirty six years, mainly in self-employment, at Crescent Head. Now retired, he has had the time to indulge in his passion with transport to do the research and to write his first book The Truckie Who Loved Trains. David lives at Blackalls Park, Lake Macquarie, NSW.