The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber from the colliery down to the river, exactly straight and parallel ; and bulky carts are made with four rowlets fitting these rails ; whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw down... The life of George Stephenson, railway engineer - Стр. 57авторы: Samuel Smiles - 1857Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
| Roger North - 1808 - Страниц: 360
...leave to lead coals over their ground ; and fo dear that the owner of a rood of ground will expect 20/. per annum for this leave. The manner of the carriage...timber, from the colliery, down to the river, exactly ftreight and parallel ; and bulky carts are made with four rowlets fitting thefe rails; whereby the... | |
| will hutchinson f.a.s. - 1823 - Страниц: 714
...year 1676, it is said, " The manner of the carriages is by laying rails of timber from the conlliery down to the river, exactly straight and parallel, and bulky carts are made with four rollers fitting those rails whereby the carriage is so easy, that one horse will draw down four or... | |
| Cesare Blasi - 1824 - Страниц: 756
...staiths of the river *." Lord Keeper Guildford, in 1676, thus describes the waggons and rail-ways. — ' The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber from the colliery to the river, exactly straight and parallel ; and bulky carts are made with four rowlers fitting these... | |
| Eneas Mackenzie - 1825 - Страниц: 538
...coales from the pits to the staiths to the river." Lord Keeper Guilford, in 16"6, thus describes them: " The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber...and parallel : and bulky carts are made with four rowlers, fitting these rails, whereby the carriage is so easy, that one horse will draw down four or... | |
| Nicholas Wood - 1825 - Страниц: 350
...before this time or not, I have not had the means of ascertaining. In 1676, they are thus described: "the manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber from the colliery to the river, exactly straight and parallel ; and bulky carts are made, with four rollers, fitting... | |
| John S Skinner - 1825 - Страниц: 436
...of commercial traffic. Lord Keeper Guilford in 1676, thus describes the wagons and railways:—"The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber from the colliery to the river, exactly straight and parallel; and bulky draw down four or five chaldron of coals, and... | |
| Roger North - 1826 - Страниц: 592
...their wayleaves ; for, when men have pieces of ground between the colliery and the river, they sell leave to lead coals over their ground ; and so dear...carriage is so easy that one horse will draw down four or five chaldron of coals, and is an immense benefit to the coal merchants. Another advantage... | |
| Roger North - 1826 - Страниц: 482
...leave to lead coals over their ground ; and so dear that the owner of a rood of ground will expect 201. per annum for this leave. The manner of the carriage...carriage is so easy that one horse will draw down four or five chaldron of coals, and is an immense benefit to the coal merchants. Another advantage... | |
| 1831 - Страниц: 660
...carriage," says the author of the Life of Lord Keeper North, " is by laying timber from the colliery to the river, exactly straight and parallel ; and bulky carts are made, with four rollers, fitting those rails, whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw down four or... | |
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