CO129-206 - Public Offices & Others - 1882 — Page 432

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Provisional Order

the Board of Trade,

which is as

follows:

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The

tramways to be constructed under this Order

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shall be constructed on a

guage of four fest,

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may approve : Provided that the Board of Trade

with two grooved rails such as the Board of Prade

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may from time to time, upon the application of

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the road authority, require the promoters to adopt and apply such improvements in the tramway including the rails

the rails thereof, as Rxperience may from time to time Euggest, having regard to "greater security of the public and advantage to

the ordinary traffic : And the promoters shall with all reasonable despatch, Comply with any Order made by the Board of Trade for the purposes of carrying out any such improvements.

Motive Power.

the tramway

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authorities with

11. Many of whom I have lately Conferred, profess to

see already the beginning of a complete

revolution in favour of Aust they Confidently

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Years

Live

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mechanical traction,

assert that in a

shall not see a

not see a horse

a few

horse pulling

a hamcar

too much

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: where in England. Without putting

anywhere

faith.

in this prediction

but be struck by the general

one Cannot

inclination

both here and on the Continent, to substitute

horsed by.

some more suitable notive power,

And by the yearly increasing appleations pu

parliamentary powers for the purpose, in En

gland particularly. It would seem that the value of

a tramhorse in this country is £40

and that it's working life is only four years.

After this comparatively brief period of

service the animal however

young healthy in the beginning, is fit for

the Ruacker's yard. The cost

is

and

little but

cost of horse fodder

very nearly double that of fuel for Steam motors for the same amount of trachin work to be performed, while in the same period of

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