The complete motorist, being an account of the evolution and construction of the modern motor-car; with notes on the selection, use, and maintenance of the same; and on the pleasures of travel upon the public roads (1905)
Young, Filson, 1876-1938 · New York : McClure, Phillips & co.; London, Methuen & co. · leaf 40
n. He turned his attention to tramways and railwayengines; but even here, although he exhibited an engine run-ning on an experimental circular track in London, he receivedsuch scant encouragement that he abandoned locomotive en-gineering for other pursuits. With this inventor, and with the… … trevithicks steam carriage, 1802 impossible. Arthur Young, the great reformer of Englishagriculture (1741-1820), wrote of English roads at the end of theeighteenth century that there w^ere only four good ones—the roadfrom Salisbury to Romney, the North Road from London toBarnet, the road from…
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