A Treatise on Roads: Wherein the Principles on which Roads Should be Made are Explained and Illustrated, by the Plans, Specifications, and Contracts Made Use of by Thomas Telford, Esq. on the Holyhead RoadLongman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1838 - 465 pages |
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... Coaches 297 Wheels 298 Axles 303 Tires of Wheels 306 Size of a Body of a Stage Coach 308 Springs - 310 Dimensions of the several parts of a Stage Coach 314 APPENDIX . APPENDIX , No. I. Description of Mr. Macneill's Road Indicator ...
... Coaches 297 Wheels 298 Axles 303 Tires of Wheels 306 Size of a Body of a Stage Coach 308 Springs - 310 Dimensions of the several parts of a Stage Coach 314 APPENDIX . APPENDIX , No. I. Description of Mr. Macneill's Road Indicator ...
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... coach to travel from Edinburgh to Glasgow , a journey which is now accomplished in four and a half or five hours . " So late as 1763 there was but one stage coach from Edinburgh to London , and it set out only once a month , taking from ...
... coach to travel from Edinburgh to Glasgow , a journey which is now accomplished in four and a half or five hours . " So late as 1763 there was but one stage coach from Edinburgh to London , and it set out only once a month , taking from ...
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... coach is descend- ing a steep hill , at a rate exceeding six miles an hour , an overturn is almost inevitable , by reason of the coach overpowering the horses . Hence it is that ninety - nine out of every hundred coach acci- dents which ...
... coach is descend- ing a steep hill , at a rate exceeding six miles an hour , an overturn is almost inevitable , by reason of the coach overpowering the horses . Hence it is that ninety - nine out of every hundred coach acci- dents which ...
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... coach going faster down it than at the rate of six miles an hour , five minutes will be required for every half mile ... coach travelling , the stopping to put it on and take it off will be the loss of at least one furlong to a coach ...
... coach going faster down it than at the rate of six miles an hour , five minutes will be required for every half mile ... coach travelling , the stopping to put it on and take it off will be the loss of at least one furlong to a coach ...
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... coach off the shoe . " 3d . In obtaining a command over the horses , by the power of increasing the resistance by a few turns of the winch . " This drag has been applied to coaches on other lines of road in Scotland with complete ...
... coach off the shoe . " 3d . In obtaining a command over the horses , by the power of increasing the resistance by a few turns of the winch . " This drag has been applied to coaches on other lines of road in Scotland with complete ...
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Allesley arch Archway Road axles bottom breadth brick bridge broken stones built carriage centre coach coating commissioners constructed contract contractor Coventry cross drains DAVIES GILBERT depôts depth draught dynamometer earth eighteen inches elasticity embankments engineer expense experiments feet wide fences foot footpath fore wheels formed foundation four inches friction gravel ground half hard Hartshill height hill hind wheels Holyhead Road horizontal horses improvement inches deep inches thick inches wide instrument John Kershaw John Macneill labour laid length line of road manner masonry ment miles mortar mound necessary nine inches paved pavement placed Plate VII proper quicksets rails rates of inclination repair road-making roadway ruts side channels side springs six inches slopes specification spirit level springs square streets surface surveyor Telford theodolite Thomas Baylis three feet three inches trustees turnpike roads turnpike trusts upper velocity waggon whole wing walls
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Page 20 - They will here meet with rutts which I actually measured four feet deep, and floating with mud only from a wet summer; what therefore must it be after a winter?