• Lionel Thomas Caswall Rolt (usually abbreviated to Tom Rolt or L. T. C. Rolt) (11 February 1910 – 9 May 1974) was a prolific English writer and the biographer...
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  • Rolt (British Army officer), (died 1856) Cecil Rolt, Dean of Cape Town Sir John Rolt (1804–1871), English lawyer and Attorney-General L. T. C. Rolt,...
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    river navigations. Notable founding members included L. T. C. Rolt and Robert Aickman. In 1944, Tom Rolt published his book Narrow Boat, which reflected on...
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  • L. T. C. Rolt. Originally published in 1944 by Eyre & Spottiswoode, it has continuously been in print since. It describes a four-month trip that Rolt...
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  • Radford, actor Paul Raynor (footballer born 1957) Bill Rigby footballer L. T. C. Rolt, biographer, engineer, writer and canal enthusiast Gary Roberts (footballer...
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    became an 0-4-2T and was named Tom Rolt after the author L. T. C. Rolt who inspired the Talyllyn's preservation. Tom Rolt is running in the standard Talyllyn...
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    2 ft 3 in (686 mm) was relatively uncommon; in his book Railway Adventure, L. T. C. Rolt states that apart from the Talyllyn, the only public railways to use...
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  • Rollinson (1884–1948, US, T/Nh) L. T. C. Rolt (1910–1974, England, T/Bg); Narrow Boat Isabella Frances Romer (1798–1852, England, T/Bg) Emma Romeu (living...
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    book Railway Adventure by established railway book author L. T. C. Rolt, published in 1953. Rolt had acted as honorary manager for the volunteer enthusiasts...
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  • pompous engine's train. Notes This book was written at the suggestion of L. T. C. Rolt and was based upon the Talyllyn Railway.[citation needed] The story...
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  • North) station on the Great Northern Railway, on 9 June 1866. According to L T C Rolt, "from the point of view of damage to engines and rolling stock it was...
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    century or the early twentieth. It was given wider use by the late L. T. C. Rolt, who used it in his book about canal life, Narrow Boat, in 1944. A gawn...
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    Know | DFT Valves". DFT Valves. 6 March 2018. Retrieved 22 June 2018. L. T. C. Rolt and J. S. Allen, The Steam Engine of Thomas Newcomen (Landmark Publishing...
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    Duff, and many later sources cite Dugan's work. Other authors, notably L. T. C. Rolt in his biography of Brunel, have dismissed the claim (noting such a...
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  • John Masefield, H. J. Massingham, George Orwell, J. B. Priestley, L. T. C. Rolt, Siegfried Sassoon, Evelyn Waugh, John Moore and P. G. Wodehouse. The...
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    that of her followers. The 1947 short story "Cwm Garon" by L. T. C. Rolt (published in Rolt's collection Sleep No More) describes a traveller encountering...
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    for leisure. A large amount of credit for this is usually given to L. T. C. Rolt, whose book Narrow Boat about a journey made in the narrowboat Cressy...
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    Perfection. Oxford University Press. pp. 28–29. ISBN 978-0-19-514287-7. L. T. C. Rolt (1982). Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Penguin Books. p. 74. ISBN 978-0-14-021195-5...
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    barge History of the British canal system Houseboat Lighter (barge) L. T. C. Rolt Pleasure craft Widebeam "Why more people are choosing to live on canal...
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    Mézières, recommending Monge to him and he was given a job as a draftsman. L. T. C. Rolt, an engineer and historian of technology, credited Monge with the birth...
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    collection Couching at the Door: Strange and Macabre Tales (1942). L. T. C. Rolt also modelled his ghost stories on James's work, but, unlike other Jamesian...
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    invented the caterpillar track, grew up in Great Boughton[citation needed] L. T. C. Rolt (1910–74), engineering historian, born in Chester Anthony Thwaite (1930–2021)...
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    tunnel before its restoration was the Rolt/Aickman expedition in the Ailsa Craig in 1948. Writing in 1948, L. T. C. Rolt described the journey as taking two...
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    refers to the David & Charles reprint of 1968 with an introduction by L. T. C. Rolt) Freese, Barbara (2006). Coal: A Human History. Arrow. p. 51. ISBN 978-0-09-947884-3...
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    Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge. ISBN 0-521-09418-6. L. T. C. Rolt and J. S. Allen, The Steam Engine of Thomas Newcomen (Landmark Publishing...
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  • (1946–2013) American architect, preservationist, South Beach Miami) L. T. C. Rolt (1910–1974) English writer, Biographer, Preservationist) Nancy (Boyd)...
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    Stone in November 2000, aged 114 Sarah Ward (1895–1965), politician L. T. C. Rolt, (1910 – 1974) author of ‘Narrowboat’ and several engineering biographies...
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    and travelling in Great Britain Samuel Smiles (1867) Thomas Telford L. T. C. Rolt, Longmans (1958) Thomas Telford, Penguin (1979), ISBN 0-14-022064-X...
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    boat's headlamp and water cans. In The Inland Waterways of England, L. T. C. Rolt described how boatmen would gladly decorate any part of their vessel...
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  • was sparked off by a letter sent by Aickman to L. T. C. Rolt following the publication in 1944 of Rolt's highly successful book Narrow Boat, describing...
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