Book - Number One / Tox Foxon

by Tom Foxon.

In this, the sequel to 'Anderton For Orders', Tom is demobbed from the RAF and sets himself up in business as an owner boatman or Number One. Before doing so he takes a memorable trip with a horse boat from Tardebigge to Cannock and back to Worcester.

His first few trips are plagued by engine troubles but, after replacing his National engine with a Ruston he settles down to recouping his fortunes by a winter spent on local work around Birmingham before starting to carry coal to Oxford.

Soft back. 136 pages. 14.8cms x 21cms approx. Illustrated with black and white pictures by Brian Collings.