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will be custom for bosh, and therefore if the
the
proprietors of jiurickshaws
Liverpool tramways
on which the.
groove is so
omall, that in spite of the gratuity Ioppered
Costermonger was unable to interlock
interests
of
and the safety of the
Natronize them are
the passengers
who
may
Sall
him, a cose
of his
are of
sufficent importance,
it may be desirable to obtain from the tramway promoters the adoption of as shallow grooved
a rail as is consistent with the safety of then
tun hamcars.
tram cars. The groove,
in order to be cure
the safety of the jurickshaus, should also be
wide mough to allow a
a jurickshaw
shaw wheel
tyre,
Lo
which is Extremely narrow in the
dissugage itself with Ease and rapidity once it
has fallen in. But what is good for
rickshoud is bad.
for
The Common
the jin.
Carriages
which have ordinarily large tyres ; these ofcourse
w grooved
the
would be the better for a very narrow,
rait,
as practically proved in the case of
the wheels
his hand cart. Carriages
are
however so few in Hong Kong that in the im- possibility to consult Every, interest, it may be
necessary to sacrifice the minority and look principally to the jinrickshaws; but the prox ferable plan would be for the local authoriting to watch results and be quided by Experience, reserving to itself the right in the Event of its
proving a public necessity hereafter, to change
the form of rail in those short sections of the tramways where there is most
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wost carriage traffic. For this purpose it would be desirable to
insert in the Ordinance a clause somewhat
"7 of the Stoke-upon-Trent
in the terms of Section 7 of