The late Jack Hampshire was one of the small number of men, alas all now departed, who really had worked with road steam. Jack was driving engines for the family company when barely in his teens, and was to work with steam all his life, latterly the marine variety. The book vividly illustrates what it was like hauling and threshing with steam during the first 30 years of the twentieth century, and make for tramendous read. 168 pages.