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 sider |
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... Stowe Hills . Over these hills there are several very considerable cut ... Hill . This improvement consists chiefly of cutting and em- banking ; the ... Stowe Hills , with a paved bottom and Hartshill top metal ; there is a considerable ...
... Stowe Hills . Over these hills there are several very considerable cut ... Hill . This improvement consists chiefly of cutting and em- banking ; the ... Stowe Hills , with a paved bottom and Hartshill top metal ; there is a considerable ...
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... STOWE VALLEY IMPROVEMENT . Investigation of the best Plan to be adopted for improving the Road through Stowe Hill Valley . By John Macneill . * In a great public work of this kind , where a considerable sum of money is to be laid out ...
... STOWE VALLEY IMPROVEMENT . Investigation of the best Plan to be adopted for improving the Road through Stowe Hill Valley . By John Macneill . * In a great public work of this kind , where a considerable sum of money is to be laid out ...
Side 435
... Stowe Hill Valley from the sixty - fifth milestone to the Crown public - house at Foster's Booth , a distance of two ... hills at an inclination of one in thirty , running nearly parallel to the present road , and at about fifty yards ...
... Stowe Hill Valley from the sixty - fifth milestone to the Crown public - house at Foster's Booth , a distance of two ... hills at an inclination of one in thirty , running nearly parallel to the present road , and at about fifty yards ...
Side 440
... Stowe Hill . Length . Rates of Inclination . Expense . Length . Rates of Inclination . Expense . 130 Horizontal 0'5360 190 r . 1 in 64 * 9053 300 r . 1 in 78 1 * 3950 170 r . 71 5860 200 r . 78 * 9300 300 r . 56 1'4571 300 r . 28 1'6878 ...
... Stowe Hill . Length . Rates of Inclination . Expense . Length . Rates of Inclination . Expense . 130 Horizontal 0'5360 190 r . 1 in 64 * 9053 300 r . 1 in 78 1 * 3950 170 r . 71 5860 200 r . 78 * 9300 300 r . 56 1'4571 300 r . 28 1'6878 ...
Side 443
... Stowe Hill , and from Stowe Hill to Foster's Booth , on the supposition of raising the valley fifty feet , lowering the summit at Foster's Booth twenty- four feet , and reducing the slopes , from 1 in 16 , 17 , and 18 , to 1 in 27 on ...
... Stowe Hill , and from Stowe Hill to Foster's Booth , on the supposition of raising the valley fifty feet , lowering the summit at Foster's Booth twenty- four feet , and reducing the slopes , from 1 in 16 , 17 , and 18 , to 1 in 27 on ...
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2d Edition abutments acclivity Allesley arch axle bottom breadth bridge broken stones built carriage centre cloth coach coating commissioners considerable constructed contractor Coventry cross drains depôts depth draught drawing earth eighteen inches elasticity embankments engineer Engravings expense experiments fences foot footpath formed Foster's Booth foundation four inches gravel half hard Hartshill hill hind Holyhead Road horizontal horses improvement inches deep inches thick inches wide J. C. LOUDON John Kershaw labour laid length line of road London masonry materials ment miles necessary nine inches North Wales paved pavement placed Plate posts principle proper quicksets Rates of Inclination repair road-making roadway side channels side springs six inches slopes spirit level Stowe Hill surface surveyor Telford Thomas Baylis three inches tractive TREATISE trustees turnpike roads turnpike trusts velocity Vignette Titles vols waggon weight wheels whole wing walls Woodcuts yards
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