An essay on the construction of wheel-carriages, as they affect both the roads and the horses : with suggestions relating to the principles on which tolls ought to be imposed, and a few remarks on the formation of roads (1820)
Fry, Joseph Storrs, 1766-1835 · Bristol : Printed by T.J. Manchee · leaf 37
box. Theowners have discovered the secret that horsesin these carriages can draw nearly as muchweight, five or six miles per hour, as otherhorses, nearly twice as heavy, can draw inheavy waggons, about two miles per hour. Admitting the truth of the precedingstatement respecting heavy waggons,… … Licensed to carry Six Inside and Twelve Otttside. CHAPTER III. 1. Modern Stage-Coaches; unphilosophical.Supposed origin of the custom of personsriding on the tops of them.—2. Regulationsfor the security of Passengers suggested.—3. All Passengers hy Public Carriagesmight he, and ought to he,…
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