Category: History - British
The gradual improvement, throughout the centuries, of those facilities for internal communication which reached their climax in the creation of the present system of railways has constituted a dominating factor alike in our industrial and in our social advancement as a people.
The gradual improvement, throughout the centuries, of those facilities for internal communication which reached their climax in the creation of the present system of railways ha...
2. c. 6, it was laid down that no waggon, wain, cart or carriage carryinggoods "for hire" should be drawn by more than seven horses or eight oxen, or carry more than 20 cwt. between October 1 and May 1, or more than 30 cwt. between May 1 and October...
3. Act 18 Geo. II., c. 33, provided, among {50}other things, that the streaksor tires of wheels were to be fastened with flat, and not rose-headed, nails; and an Act passed in 1822, in the reign of George IV., directed that when the nails of the tire pro...