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Page 103
... scheme disappeared ; and the full scheme was never anything like carried out . While the canal was building Telford was requested by the Lord Provost and Magistrates of the City of Glasgow to report on the state of the Clyde and means ...
... scheme disappeared ; and the full scheme was never anything like carried out . While the canal was building Telford was requested by the Lord Provost and Magistrates of the City of Glasgow to report on the state of the Clyde and means ...
Page 246
... scheme , for which Parliamentary powers were obtained in 1819 to estab- lish a regular ferry service , for which was provided the most distinguished board of Trustees that can ever have been appointed for such a local facility ...
... scheme , for which Parliamentary powers were obtained in 1819 to estab- lish a regular ferry service , for which was provided the most distinguished board of Trustees that can ever have been appointed for such a local facility ...
Page 300
... schemes . The project was renewed in the Canal boom when Telford made two surveys and reports . An authorising Act was obtained in 1825 , but the financial crisis of 1825 caused the scheme to be dropped . It was never revived . 1824-34 ...
... schemes . The project was renewed in the Canal boom when Telford made two surveys and reports . An authorising Act was obtained in 1825 , but the financial crisis of 1825 caused the scheme to be dropped . It was never revived . 1824-34 ...
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Edinburgh at the beginning of the Twentieth Century I | 8 |
The Eighteenth Century Transport problem | 26 |
William Jessop Civil Engineer 17451814 | 32 |
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