History of Inland Transport and Communication; a reprint with an introductory note by C R Clinker

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First published 1912. Early account of the history of inland transport in Britain which, for many years, was without a rival account. Its 31 chapters include: 'Britain's earliest roads'; 'Early trading conditions'; 'Early road legislation'; 'Early carriages'; 'The coaching era'; 'The turnpike system'; 'Trade and transport in the turnpike era'; 'Rivers and river transport'; ''Disadvantages of river navigation'; 'The canal era'; 'Evolution of the railway'; 'Railway expansion'; 'Railways and the state'; 'Decline of canals'; 'Decline of turnpikes'; 'The railway system today'; 'Tramways, motorbuses and rail-less electric traction'