. Scientific news for general readers; a popular illustrated weekly journal of science . f the Grand JunctionRailway between Birmingham and Liverpool and Man-chester. There were at that time plans for sevent3-five April I St, 1887.] SCIENTIFIC NEV/S. 39 proposed railways lodged in the Private Bill Office, andforty-eight were under the consideration of Parliament; butno railway had crossed the borders of either Scotland orWales. The problem of using steam-carriages on common roadswas then still a burning question, although perhaps it hadexcited more interest at a previous time. It was a feature
. Scientific news for general readers; a popular illustrated weekly journal of science . f the Grand JunctionRailway between Birmingham and Liverpool and Man-chester. There were at that time plans for sevent3-five April I St, 1887.] SCIENTIFIC NEV/S. 39 proposed railways lodged in the Private Bill Office, andforty-eight were under the consideration of Parliament; butno railway had crossed the borders of either Scotland orWales. The problem of using steam-carriages on common roadswas then still a burning question, although perhaps it hadexcited more interest at a previous time. It was a featureround which raged much of the vigorous correspondencedistinctive of the Magazine, rival inventors slinging vitu-perative ink with a freedom from restraint that must havebeen very easeful to their feelings when experimentswent wrong. In the year Her Majesty succeeded to thethrone there were three or four new productions of thisnature on Vauxhall Bridge Road and the Finchley Road. In mercy to the inventors, says a correspondent ofthat date, who himself had laboured in the same field, I. will not mention names, having seen their performances,which, like so many others, bring common road steam-locomotion into utter contempt. The two best-knownnames amongst the designers of steam-carriages wereHancock and Gurnej. The engraving below, also takenfrom the pages of the Mechanics^ Magazine, gives anillustration of the former inventors design. It was builtin 1836, and at the time the picture was published hadrun twenty weeks continuously on the Stratford, Islington,and Paddington roads. During this time it coveredabout 4,200 miles, and carried 12,761 passengers. Thegeneral rate of travelling was 12 to 15 miles an hour,but 21 miles had been reached wiih 20 passengerson board. For five weeks this wonderful apparatusmight have been seen at the Bank twice a daj. Thecost for fuel was said to have been 2id. per mile. Thecylinders were 12 inches in diameter. The boiler wasperhaps the chief featu
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