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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... commissioner , and therein devoting much of his time to the personal inspec- tion of practical operations , he has acquired so perfect a knowledge of road - making in all its branches , as has enabled him to produce the most valuable ...
... commissioner , and therein devoting much of his time to the personal inspec- tion of practical operations , he has acquired so perfect a knowledge of road - making in all its branches , as has enabled him to produce the most valuable ...
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... commissioners with respect to the best plan of accomplishing the object Parliament had in view . He strongly recommended that , if employed by them , he should be allowed to execute all the new works upon this line of road in a sub ...
... commissioners with respect to the best plan of accomplishing the object Parliament had in view . He strongly recommended that , if employed by them , he should be allowed to execute all the new works upon this line of road in a sub ...
Side 31
... Commissioners for giving Employment to the Poor . * These roads have been constructed in the most substantial manner . A foundation of rough pavement has been made as a bed to support the surface materials . They are uniform in breadth ...
... Commissioners for giving Employment to the Poor . * These roads have been constructed in the most substantial manner . A foundation of rough pavement has been made as a bed to support the surface materials . They are uniform in breadth ...
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... commissioners , therein named , to expend the sum of 20,000 / . in making such alterations as they might deem expedient . " Under the power of this Act ( the 55th Geo . 3. c . 152. ) the commissioners commenced their operations in the ...
... commissioners , therein named , to expend the sum of 20,000 / . in making such alterations as they might deem expedient . " Under the power of this Act ( the 55th Geo . 3. c . 152. ) the commissioners commenced their operations in the ...
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... Commissioners . " Accordingly , in May 1819 , the Act of the 59th Geo . 3. c . 30 . was passed , in which six Trusts between Shrewsbury and Bangor were consolidated into one , and vested in fifteen commissioners therein named . The ...
... Commissioners . " Accordingly , in May 1819 , the Act of the 59th Geo . 3. c . 30 . was passed , in which six Trusts between Shrewsbury and Bangor were consolidated into one , and vested in fifteen commissioners therein named . The ...
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Allesley arch Archway Road axles bottom breadth brick bridge broken stones built carriage centre coach coating commissioners constructed contract contractor Coventry cross drains DAVIES GILBERT depôts depth draught dynamometer earth eighteen inches elasticity embankments engineer expense experiments feet wide fences foot footpath fore wheels formed foundation four inches friction gravel ground half hard Hartshill height hill hind wheels Holyhead Road horizontal horses improvement inches deep inches thick inches wide instrument John Kershaw John Macneill labour laid length line of road manner masonry ment miles mortar mound necessary nine inches paved pavement placed Plate VII proper quicksets rails rates of inclination repair road-making roadway ruts side channels side springs six inches slopes specification spirit level springs square streets surface surveyor Telford theodolite Thomas Baylis three feet three inches trustees turnpike roads turnpike trusts upper velocity waggon whole wing walls
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Side 20 - They will here meet with rutts which I actually measured four feet deep, and floating with mud only from a wet summer; what therefore must it be after a winter?