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to have "led the way in charting the early history of this ... hobby". He was an early member and for some time Vice-President of the
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Ellis covered a broad range of railway subjects in his books, the best-known of which is
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to organise saboteurs, but is reported not to have made contact with his handlers.
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Ships : a pictorial history from Noah's Ark to the U.S.S. United States
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King Steam. Selected railway paintings and drawings by C. Hamilton Ellis
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He attended Westminster school and is reported to have briefly been at
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Popular Carriage: Two Centuries of Carriage Design for Road and Rail
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Royal journey: A retrospect of royal trains in the British Isles
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had done for general history" (a reference to the authors of
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Railways : A Pictorial History of the First 150 Years
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Nineteenth Century Railway Carriages in the British Isles
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Railway Carriages in the British Isles from 1830 to 1914
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The Engineer-Corporal. A story of the American civil war
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holds two photographs of him, both taken in the 1960s.
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London, Midland and Scottish. A Railway in Retrospect
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The History of the Great Northern Railway, 1845-1922
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