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Page 169
... Rocket for trial next morning and declared the proceedings closed . The Rocket had also been demonstrated but was not popular with the crowd , who considered it cumbersome and ' unmechanical ' by comparison with the Novelty , a verdict ...
... Rocket for trial next morning and declared the proceedings closed . The Rocket had also been demonstrated but was not popular with the crowd , who considered it cumbersome and ' unmechanical ' by comparison with the Novelty , a verdict ...
Page 180
... Rocket but weighed 1 tons more and embodied important detail improvements which were obviously the fruit of the experience gained with the Rocket . The boiler tubes were reduced in diameter to two inches and their number increased to 88 ...
... Rocket but weighed 1 tons more and embodied important detail improvements which were obviously the fruit of the experience gained with the Rocket . The boiler tubes were reduced in diameter to two inches and their number increased to 88 ...
Page 198
... Rocket bore down upon him . It must have been a terrible moment for Joseph Locke who was on the Rocket and for M'Cree who was presumably driving . Even had they commanded steam or vacuum brakes they would still have been powerless to ...
... Rocket bore down upon him . It must have been a terrible moment for Joseph Locke who was on the Rocket and for M'Cree who was presumably driving . Even had they commanded steam or vacuum brakes they would still have been powerless to ...
Contents
Chapter | 3 |
MANCHESTER RAILWAY | 176 |
IO RAILS TO THE SOUTH | 205 |
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