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time the value
of
the deterioration and
renewal
of horseflesh is greatly in
the principal check to the use
in Excess
of
that
of the wear and tear
of machinery.
horse is doomed to become Extinct. So far
of locomotives
through the public street's has lain, the objection
The first cost
cost of purchasing Engines is ofcourse greater than that of Establishing a stud, but
the
subsequent saving Effected by the use of mechanical in lieu of horse power is said to Equalize this initial Expenditure within
the first few years of the organization of a
ham
Company.
The disposition of hanway promoters to adopt mechanical tractive power therefore intelligible, and as it has greatly stimulated, and is still stimulating the inventive
powers of mechanicians in their Endeavours to
arrive at a machine that will be silent, Easily Controllable and Economical in its working, it may perhaps be after all, that the tram
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that portion of
the public which uses horses
and
one
of
carriages. The subject has been Parliamentary Enquiry both in Your Lordshifi
House and in the House of
a result in Each case by
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Commons with
meand discouraging
to the advocates of mechanical traction. The
Select Committee
of the House of
Commons on
Framways, in their Report of the 16th of April
1877, paragraphs 2 to 5
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say:
Whilst confining their attention chiefly to
The use of mechanical power upon
tramways,
Your Committee have Endeavoured to give due weight to the interests of all persons concerned. They have mainly considered the safety, and the Convenience of the public, whether as passengers in
in the tramway
Cars or as passers
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by
along the high way's and the streets; but in doing so they have not forgotten
to