Where the Money Went - the Financial Cost of War

Speaker: Roy Larkin
Silver Into Bullets

Roy has a lifelong interest in road transport history with particular emphasis on the WW1 period. Author of two books - Destination Western Front – London's Omnibuses Go to War and We Can Do It! – Fred Cooper Remembers Edward Box & Ernest Holmes (the story of heavy haulage in the Great War) – on which the following talks are based.  'Where the Money Went' is the sequel to 'Day to Day Costs' that examines under-explored aspects of the Home Front and Western Front rarely considered and salvage. It took 100 years to pay off the accrued debt.

Event organiser: Scotland (Tayside) branch
12 September 2026 14:00 to 12 September 2026 16:00
Glasite Hall, 2-6 King Street, Dundee, DD1 2JB
Branch contacts
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(Branch Chairman)
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Rae Taylor
(Branch Secretary)
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Scott Galloway
(Media/Events)
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