 The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber from the colliery down to the river, exactly straight and parallel ; and bulky carts are made with four rowlets fitting these rails ; whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw down...  Littell's Living Age - Pagina 3371845Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | Frederick Smeeton Williams - 1852 - 436 pagine
...will expect £20 per annum for this leave. The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber from the colliery down to the river, exactly straight...the carriage is so easy, that one horse will draw four or five chaldrons of coals, and is of immense benefit to the coal merchants."* The advantage here... | |
 | Frederick Smeeton Williams - 1852 - 418 pagine
...of the carriage is by laying rails of timber from the colliery down to the river, exactly-straight and parallel, and bulky carts are made with four rowlets...the carriage is so easy, that one horse will draw four or five chaldrons of coals, and is of immense benefit to the coal merchants."* The advantage here... | |
 | George Palmer Putnam - 1853 - 776 pagine
...mentioned in 1676 :— " The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber from the colliery to the river, exactly straight and parallel; and bulky carts are made with four rollers fitting those rails, whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw down four or... | |
 | Joseph Haydn - 1853 - 734 pagine
...mentioned in 1676 : — " The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber from the colliery to the river, exactly straight and parallel ; and bulky carts are made with four rollers fitting those rails, whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw down four or... | |
 | William Hylton Dyer Longstaffe - 1854 - 610 pagine
...will expect ~20l. per annum for this leave. The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber from the colliery down to the river exactly straight...chaldrons of coals, and is an immense benefit to the coal-merchants.'' In the rude and early waggon-ways the rails were about six or seven inches in breadth,... | |
 | William Chambers - 1854 - 560 pagine
...will expect £20 per annum for this leave. The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber from the colliery down to the river exactly straight...so easy that one horse will draw down four or five chaldron of coals, and is an immense benefit to the coal-merchants.' This account, as is obvious, refers... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1854 - 582 pagine
...timber from the colliery to the rirer, exactly strait and parallel, and bulky cart« are made with rowlets, fitting these rails, whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw four or live chaldrons of coal, and it is of immense benefit to the coal merchants." These wooden roads... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1854 - 584 pagine
...from the colliery to the river, exactly strait and parallel, and bulky carts are made with rowlcts, fitting these rails, whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw four or five chaldrons of coal, and it is of immense benefit to the coal merchants." These wooden roads... | |
 | Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire - 1923 - 328 pagine
...they are thus described : The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber from the colliery to the river, exactly straight and parallel, and bulky carts are made, with four rollers fitting these rails, whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw down four or... | |
 | 1856 - 586 pagine
...will expect 20/. per annum for this leave. The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber, from the colliery down to the river, exactly straight...so easy, that one horse will draw down four or five chaldron of coals, and is an immense benefit to the coal merchant." Who would have thought that this... | |
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