Tube, Train, Tram, and Car; or, Up-to-date locomotion. Arthur H. Beavan
UNITED TRAMWAYS COMPANY
CHAPTER XIII PROVINCIAL TRAMWAYS
THE LIGHT RAILWAYS ACT OF 1896
MUNICIPAL TRAMWAY UNDERTAKINGS
MANUFACTURING CENTRES—GREAT BRITAIN
THE BLACK COUNTRY AND THE POTTERIES
THE NEW ORDER OF RURAL TRAMWAYS
LOCAL AUTHORITIES AND RURAL TRAMWAYS
CHAPTER XIV THE SHALLOW UNDERGROUND SYSTEM
CHAPTER XV HORSELESS VEHICLES—ELECTRICAL AND OTHERWISE
CHAPTER XVI HORSELESS VEHICLES, ELECTRICAL AND OTHERWISE (continued)
CHAPTER XVII HORSELESS VEHICLES, ELECTRICAL AND OTHERWISE (continued)
MOTOR-CARS AND PUBLIC HIGHWAYS
CHAPTER XVIII ELECTRICITY APPLIED TO NAVIGATION (A FORECAST)
DEVELOPMENT IN SIZE OF SHIPS AND STEAMERS
ELECTRIC STORAGE AS A MOTIVE POWER
THE “PRINCESS IDA” IN THE YEAR A.D. 19—
CHAPTER XIX SOME ELECTRIC LOCOMOTION DRAWBACKS
ELECTRIC RAILWAY ACCIDENTS AND BREAKDOWNS
MEDICAL OBJECTIONS TO TUBE TRAVELLING
CHAPTER XX SOME ELECTRIC LOCOMOTION DRAWBACKS (continued)
CHAPTER XXI ELECTRIC LOCOMOTION AND OUR NATIONAL LIFE
HOW IT AFFECTS EXISTING RAILWAYS
THE IMPROVEMENT OF STREET TRAFFIC
PREFACE
THE object of this work is to present the subject of Electrical Locomotion to the public for the first time, the author believes, in a popular form, giving interesting information about Tube, Train, Tram, and Motor-car, but avoiding, as much as possible, technical and scientific detail.
Electrical traction is of national importance, destined perhaps materially to abate the evil of overcrowding, by providing cheap and rapid means of access from centres of industry to country districts and vice versa.
It was predicted by George Stephenson in 1825 that his system would supersede all other methods of conveyance in this country. Similarly can it now be prophesied that throughout the world electrical traction will ultimately supplant all other forms. An age of electricity is dawning, when “power” may be obtained direct from fuel or from the vast store of energy existing in the heated interior of the earth, or even from the atmosphere that surrounds us; when every mountain stream and gleaming waterfall throughout Great Britain, and each tide as it rises and falls,