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The life of robert Stephenson Volume 1; with descriptive chapters on some of his most important professional works by William Pole - Softcover
Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 Excerpt: ... important feature of his well-known attack upon the Stephensons in tho ' Edinburgh Review' for October, 1832. ' " In page 115 there is a clause preventing any horse being driven or ridden on the railroad. Is that to preclude tho use of horses in dragging carriages on tho railroad? " ' " I suppose it is." ' " Are persons to be allowed to draw railway carriages by horses? " ' " I conceive that is totally incompatible with a line where locomotive engines are used." ' " All the engines are to be approved by the Company? " ' " Yes." ' " The engines are not to be exclusively furnished by the Companv? " ' " No." ' " Are you and your father great manufacturers of steam-engines? " ' " We do manufacture them." ' " For this railroad, do you not, and for others? ' " For any railroad." ' " You are the persons who are to be applied to? " '"I do not know that that may be tho caso. I am only engineer for the lime being." '" As long as you and your father are the engineers, you are the people to decide what engines shall be used by other people? " ' " If there is any fear of prejudiced opinions being given by us, I apprehend the committee may easily find a remedy by calling in other engineers to decide the point." ' " There would be no remedy in the Bill?" ' " He would still be the Company's engineer." ' " The engines to be used are to be approved of by the engineer for the railroad company; and there is no appeal from this decision, if he says he does not like the engines? " ' " I may not be the engineer for the Company. I apprehend I may be done with the railroad as soon as the railro...
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