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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