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 TelfordLongman, 1833 - 438 sider |
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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 Mac- neill . * 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 Mac- neill . * In a great public work of this kind , where a considerable sum of money is to be laid out ...
Side 407
... 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 412
... Stowe Hill . Length . Inclination . Rates of Expense . Length . Inclination . Rates of 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 . Inclination . Rates of Expense . Length . Inclination . Rates of 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 414
... Hill from 1 in 14 and 15 to 1 in 30 , as described in Plan , No. IV . Rates of Inclination . Expense . Length Rates ... Stowe Hill 】 to F. B. Pence 81-9941 From F. B. to Stowe Hill Pence 77-6959 Mean expense of one ton . 81.9941 } 2 ...
... Hill from 1 in 14 and 15 to 1 in 30 , as described in Plan , No. IV . Rates of Inclination . Expense . Length Rates ... Stowe Hill 】 to F. B. Pence 81-9941 From F. B. to Stowe Hill Pence 77-6959 Mean expense of one ton . 81.9941 } 2 ...
Side 415
... 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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Allesley Archway road bottom breadth bridge broken stones built carriage centre coating Commissioners contractor covered cross drains cubic yards depôts depth ditch draught earth Edition eighteen inches embankments engineer expense of drawing Fcap feet wide fences footpath formed Foster's Booth foundation four feet four inches gravel ground half Hartshill Holyhead Road Horizontal horses improvement inches deep inches thick inches wide inclined plane J. C. LOUDON John Kershaw labour laid land length line of road masonry ment metal pavement miles mound necessary nine inches North Wales parish passing paved pavement Pence placed Plate VII posts proper quicksets rails railway Rates of Inclination repair road materials road-making roadway side channels side drains six inches slopes specification spirit level Stowe Hill streets surface surveyor Telford Thomas Baylis three inches trustees turnpike roads valley velocity Vols waggon weight wheels whole
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