Tube, train, tram, and car : or up-to-date locomotion / by Arthur H. Beavan and an introduction by Llewellyn Preece

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Publication intended as a popular introduction to electric transport. Focuses particularly on electric railways, the London Underground and tramways in London and elsewhere. Also several chapters on other horseless vehicles, either electric or other forms of motor, including buses, cars and taxis. Disadvantages of electric power.

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Railway locomotion; pioneer electric railways including the City and South London Railway; Metropolitan Inner Circle including District Railway and Lots Road power station; Central London Railway; the tubular system including London Underground tunnelling, construction, vibration and compensation; Touring the Tubes account of a journey; London's latest and longest Tube, the Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway; electric tramways; London's tramways including London County Council and London United Tramways; provincial tramways; shallow underground systems including Kingsway tunnel and Paris Metro; horseless vehicles electrical and other motor; electricity applied to navigation; some electric locomotion drawbacks; electric locomotion and our national life.

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Chapter 8 "Touring the Tubes" is reproduced in "London Underground : poems and prose about the Tube" edited by Tobias Doring

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