 | Laurence Hutton - 1895 - 208 страници
...middle of the seventeenth century. In the Life of Lord-Keeper North they were thus described in 1676: "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 those... | |
 | William Jasper Nicolls - 1896 - 418 страници
...Colebrookdale, in Shropshire, England. A writer in 1676 describes the old wooden railways as follows : " The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber...straight and parallel, and bulky carts are made with rowlets, fitting these rails, whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw down four or... | |
 | Victoria and Albert Museum - 1907 - 468 страници
...colliery district, and in this connection it is recorded in the life of Lord Keeper North that in 1676 " the manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber...straight and parallel, and bulky carts are made with four rowlcts fitting these rails, whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw down four or... | |
 | George Packer Raidabaugh - 1915 - 64 страници
...England, as follows : "The manner of the carriage is by laying down rails of timber from the colliery to the river, exactly straight and parallel, and bulky carts are made with rowlets fitting these rails whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw 4 or 5 chaldrons... | |
 | Science Museum (Great Britain) - 1919 - 518 страници
...use by the end of the 16th century. In the Life of Lord Keeper North it is recorded that in 1676 " the manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber...carts are made with four rowlets fitting these rails." They were generally laid on special tracks or wayleaves leading from the collieries to the riverside... | |
 | International Railway Congress Association - 1926 - 1366 страници
...leave to lead coals over the ground, and so dear that the owner of a rood of ground will expect £20 per annum for this leave. The manner of the carriage...the river, exactly straight and parallel, and bulky «arts are made with four rowlets fitting these rails, whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse... | |
 | United States National Museum - 1921 - 988 страници
...railway (see fig. 44) which he had seen at Newcastle during the reign of Charles II, as follows: " The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber...straight and parallel, and bulky carts are made with rowlets fitting these rails, whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw four or five... | |
 | Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire - 1923 - 328 страници
...S « O "o 81 J! ,H ^ w * Q .S at that time expended his £3o,ooo. 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 these... | |
 | W. H. Williams - 1923 - 40 страници
...as we find Master Beaumont had at that time expended his £30,000. 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 these... | |
 | Delaware and Hudson Company - 1925 - 932 страници
...1076, his biographer, speaking of this practice in the Newcastle district, says: 'the manner of their carriage is by laying rails of timber from the colliery down to the river (ic Tyne) exactly straight and parallel, and bulky carts are made with four rowlets fitting these rails... | |
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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... 
