A Treatise on Roads: Wherein the Principles on which Roads Should be Made are Explained and Illustrated, by the Plans, Specifications, and Contracts Made Use of by Thomas Telford, Esq. on the Holyhead RoadLongman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1838 - 465 pàgines |
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... Turnpike Roads Direction Convexity 234 235 235 236 Hardness 236 Drains 236 Embankment 236 Footpath 236 Side Channels 236 Wastes 236 Fences 236 Parish Roads 241 Surface 241 Convexity 241 Drains 241 Embankment 242 CHAP . X. REPAIRING ...
... Turnpike Roads Direction Convexity 234 235 235 236 Hardness 236 Drains 236 Embankment 236 Footpath 236 Side Channels 236 Wastes 236 Fences 236 Parish Roads 241 Surface 241 Convexity 241 Drains 241 Embankment 242 CHAP . X. REPAIRING ...
Pàgina x
... Turnpike System Origin of Turnpike Roads Defects of Turnpike Roads To whom referable Errors in Road Legislation Trustees Committee of Management 263 264 266 267 - 268 268 272 Page Boards of Trustees too numerous Impunity of Trustees ...
... Turnpike System Origin of Turnpike Roads Defects of Turnpike Roads To whom referable Errors in Road Legislation Trustees Committee of Management 263 264 266 267 - 268 268 272 Page Boards of Trustees too numerous Impunity of Trustees ...
Pàgina xi
... Turnpike Bills Board of Control over Trustees Powers to be granted to this Board 273 274 277 282 - 283 284 Control recommended by Committee of 1819 287 Inadequate Funds for making Roads · 290 Parish Roads 290 Defects in Legislation 291 ...
... Turnpike Bills Board of Control over Trustees Powers to be granted to this Board 273 274 277 282 - 283 284 Control recommended by Committee of 1819 287 Inadequate Funds for making Roads · 290 Parish Roads 290 Defects in Legislation 291 ...
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... turnpike system was introduced . The ancient method employed to mend roads , until after the restoration of King Charles II . , was by a pound rate on the land- holders in the respective counties ; and by the supply of carts and horses ...
... turnpike system was introduced . The ancient method employed to mend roads , until after the restoration of King Charles II . , was by a pound rate on the land- holders in the respective counties ; and by the supply of carts and horses ...
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... Turnpike . - I know not in the whole range of language terms sufficiently ex- pressive to describe this infernal road . Let me most seriously caution all travellers who may acci- * M'Culloch's Dictionary of Commerce , art . Roads ...
... Turnpike . - I know not in the whole range of language terms sufficiently ex- pressive to describe this infernal road . Let me most seriously caution all travellers who may acci- * M'Culloch's Dictionary of Commerce , art . Roads ...
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Allesley arch Archway Road axles bottom breadth brick bridge broken stones built carriage centre coach coating commissioners constructed contract contractor Coventry cross drains DAVIES GILBERT depôts depth draught dynamometer earth eighteen inches elasticity embankments engineer expense experiments feet wide fences foot footpath fore wheels formed foundation four inches friction gravel ground half hard Hartshill height hill hind wheels Holyhead Road horizontal horses improvement inches deep inches thick inches wide instrument John Kershaw John Macneill labour laid length line of road manner masonry ment miles mortar mound necessary nine inches paved pavement placed Plate VII proper quicksets rails rates of inclination repair road-making roadway ruts side channels side springs six inches slopes specification spirit level springs square streets surface surveyor Telford theodolite Thomas Baylis three feet three inches trustees turnpike roads turnpike trusts upper velocity waggon whole wing walls
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Pàgina 20 - They will here meet with rutts which I actually measured four feet deep, and floating with mud only from a wet summer; what therefore must it be after a winter?