Railways.- Specification of Letters Patent "An Invention 'Of certain Improvements in the construction of Tram or Railways and in the carriages to be used theron'", D.s. "Thomas Wilkinson," manuscript on vellum, 7 sheets, ruled in red, 7 watercolours of carriages and carriage ways, red wax seal, folds, slightly yellowed and creased, various sizes, approx. 570 × 530 mm, housed in a modern cloth box, 12th March 1839. ⁂ The Patent, numbered 7809, is summarised in Abridgement of Specifications Relating to Railways A.D. 1770-1863, HMSO, London 1868: "The invention consists in providing for the 'locomotive engine' separate rails of a substance of such a nature and so disposed 'as to cause the working wheels of the engine to have a firmer grasp than they can have upon the iron surface on which the' train runs'."
Railways.- Specification of Letters Patent "An Invention 'Of certain Improvements in the construction of Tram or Railways and in the carriages to be used theron'", D.s. "Thomas Wilkinson," manuscript on vellum, 7 sheets, ruled in red, 7 watercolours of carriages and carriage ways, red wax seal, folds, slightly yellowed and creased, various sizes, approx. 570 × 530 mm, housed in a modern cloth box, 12th March 1839. ⁂ The Patent, numbered 7809, is summarised in Abridgement of Specifications Relating to Railways A.D. 1770-1863, HMSO, London 1868: "The invention consists in providing for the 'locomotive engine' separate rails of a substance of such a nature and so disposed 'as to cause the working wheels of the engine to have a firmer grasp than they can have upon the iron surface on which the' train runs'."
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