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" Tolls to an amount which would utterly prohibit the introduction of steam-carriages, have been imposed on some roads; on others, the trustees have adopted modes of apportioning the charge which would be found, if not absolutely prohibitory, at least to... "
Report on Steam Carriages - Page 4
by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Steam Carriages - 1832 - 346 pages
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The Mechanics' Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette, Volume 16

Industrial arts - 1832 - 522 pages
...on others, the trustees haveadopted modes of apportioning the charges which would be found, if not absolutely prohibitory, at least to place such carriages...assigned for the Imposition of such excessive tolls upou steam-carriages. The first, a determination on the part of the trustees to obstruct, as much as...
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The Monthly Review

Books - 1832 - 650 pages
...on others, the trustees have adopted modes of apportioning the charge which would be found, if not absolutely prohibitory, at least to place such carriages...on the part of the trustees, to obstruct, as much ;is possible, the use of Steam, as a propelling power; the second, and probably the raore frequent,...
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Mechanics' Magazine, Volume 16

Technology - 1832 - 504 pages
...on others, the trustees haveadopted modes of apportioning' the charges which would be fuund, if not absolutely prohibitory, at least to place such carriages...assigned for the imposition of such excessive tolls upou steam- carriages. The first, a determination on the part of the trustees to obstruct, as much...
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House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents: 13th ..., Volume 3

United States. Congress. House - United States - 1832 - 834 pages
...on others, the trustees have adopted modes of apportioning the charge which would be found, if not absolutely prohibitory, at least to place such carriages...may be assigned for the imposition of such excessive lolls upon steam carriages. The first, a determination on the part of the trustees, to obstruct, as...
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Journal of the Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania for the ...

Meteorology - 1832 - 890 pages
...on others, the trustees have adopted modes of apportioning the charge, which would be found, if not absolutely prohibitory, at least to place such. carriages...may be assigned for the imposition of such excessive .would fall, food would become cheaper, and the cheapening'of food would benefit partly the labouring...
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An Historical and Practical Treatise Upon Elemental Locomotion, by Means of ...

Alexander Gordon - Automobiles, Steam - 1832 - 236 pages
...apportioning the charge which would be found, if not absolutely prohibitory, at least to place such carnages in a very unfair position as compared with ordinary...assigned for the imposition of such excessive tolls upon steam-carriages. The first, a determination on the part of the trustees, to obstruct, as much as possible,...
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Lectures on the Steam-engine: In which Its Construction and Operation are ...

Dionysius Lardner - Steam-engines - 1832 - 334 pages
...causes of the imposition of excessive tolls was, a determination on the part of the trustees of roads to obstruct, as much as possible, the use of steam as a propelling power, and that they recommend that legislative protection should be extended to steam-carriages with the...
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The Monthly magazine, Volume 15

Monthly literary register - 1833 - 442 pages
...utterly prohibit the introduction of steam carriages," and the " determination on the part of road trustees to obstruct as much as possible the use of steam as a propelling power," Mr. Gurney's steam carriages, which commenced running for the public between Gloucester and Cheltenham...
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A Treatise Upon Elemental Locomotion, and Interior Communication, Wherein ...

Alexander Gordon - Communication and traffic - 1834 - 376 pages
...on others, the trustees have adopted modes of apportioning the charge which would be found, if not absolutely prohibitory, at least to place such carriages...assigned for the imposition of such excessive tolls upon steam-carriages. The first, a determination on the part of the trustees, to obstruct, as much as possible,...
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Inland Transit: The Practicability, Utility, and Benefit of Railroads; the ...

Nicholas Wilcox Cundy - Railroads - 1834 - 184 pages
...position compared with ordinary coaches ; and that the causes of these measures are two-fold, — 1 st, A determination on the part of the trustees to obstruct...as possible the use of steam as a propelling power ; and, 2d, The misapprehension of its effects on roads. The committee consider that legislative protection...
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