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A History of Inland Transport and Communication
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Originally published in 1912, this book with extensive source footnotes and bibliography follows the evolution and development of roads, rivers, canals, tramways, buses and cycles. The role that the development of transport played in the growth and expansion of trade and industry and on the general economic and social conditions of the country is one of the main issues that is discussed. Other themes which are examined are the electrification of the railways, railways and the state, railway rates and charges and early trading conditions.
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- Accidents on railways : 442-3
- Acworth, W. M. : 425, 426
- Aeroplanes: 504-6
- Agricultural Organisation Society: 355
- Agriculture: 16, 74, 85, 89, 164, 179, 192, 353, 355, 497, 507
- Aikin, Dr. : 49, 91, 142, 169, 185
- Ale, Burton : 178
- Alldridge, T. J. : 403
- Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants : 446, 447, 512
- Amber: 6-7, 26
- Ambulance corps on railways : 444
- Anderson, Dr James: 229
- Andred-Weald, The : 4, 8
- Aqueducts on Canals : 304
- Arkwright, Sir Richard : 187, 188
- Armstrong (Newcastle) University: 427
- Ashley, W. J. : 18, 19
- Askwith, Sir George: 452
- Assizes of ale, bread and cloth : 19
- Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen : 447
- Association of Railway Companiesā Signal Superintendents: 429
- Association of Railway Locomotive Engineers: 429
- Australia, Railways in: 402
- Automobile Association and Motor Union : 479, 503
- Automobilism :
- Badeslade, Thomas: 119-20
- Bagmen: 16
- Bailey, John : 207, 208
- Baines, Thomas: 136, 138, 141, 157, 165, 178, 180, 184, 236
- Balfour of Burleigh, Lord : 338
- Barber, H. C. : 505-6 ...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Original Title Page
- Original Copyright Page
- Introductory Note To 1970 Edition
- Title Page
- Prefatory Note
- Table of Contents
- I. Introductory
- II. Britainās Earliest Roads
- III. Roads and the Church
- IV. Early Trading Conditions
- V. Early Road Legislation
- VI. Early Carriages
- VII. Loads, Wheels and Roads
- VIII. The Coaching Era
- IX. The Age of Bad Roads
- X. The Turnpike System
- XI. Trade and Transport in the Turnpike Era
- XII. Scientific Road-making
- XIII. Rivers and River Transport
- XIV. River Improvement and Industrial Expansion
- XV. Disadvantages of River Navigation
- XVI. The Canal Era
- XVII. The Industrial Revolution
- XVIII. Evolution of the Railway
- XIX. The Railway Era
- XX. Railway Expansion
- XXI. Railways and the State
- XXII. Decline of Canals
- XXIII. Decline of Turnpikes
- XXIV. End of the Coaching Era
- XXV. Railway Rates and Charges
- XXVI. The Railway System To-day
- XXVII. What the Railways have Done
- XXVIII. Railways a National Industry
- XXIX. Tramways, Motor-buses and Rail-less Electric Traction
- XXX. Cycles, Motor-vehicles and Tubes
- XXXI. The Outlook
- Authorities
- Index