A New System of Heavy Goods Transport on Common Roads

actual adhesion advantages ankle-joint arrangement AXIOM axle-box axles ball bearings bicycle saddle boiler boxes Branbridge caused collecting and distributing Colonel Crompton's common roads cost crane depôt designed diameter differential gear difficulty Diplock Engine disc District Centres draw-bar driving elastic enable experience fact feet four Pedrails four wheels frame friction-clutch gear-wheels ground hauling power heavy hinged joint hitherto important inches increased invention Kerr Stuart lifting load Locomotives Act long train lubrication mechanical miles an hour obtained ordinary traction-engine ordinary wheel Pedrail system pivoted Plateways possible practical prevent problem pull radiating springs rail railway reduced repairs result revolutions per minute Road Locomotion road surface road trains road-resistance rollers rolling stock rubber tyre shown in Fig sliding spokes speed split pin steam sufficient surface contact tons total weight traction traction-engine haulage tractive traffic transport travelling trial turning corners vehicle wagon-boxes wagons wear and tear whilst winding-drum