British Post Office railway van showing the net for collecting mailbags whilst the train was moving. Engraving from 'Discoveries and Inventions of the Nineteenth Century' by Robert Routledge (London, 1876).

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British Post Office railway van showing the net for collecting mailbags whilst the train was moving. Engraving from 'Discoveries and Inventions of the Nineteenth Century' by Robert Routledge (London, 1876).

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