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| Public Carriages of Great Britain / BRADFIELD John Edwin, 1855 | |||||||||
The public carriages of Great Britain; a glance at the rise, progress, struggles &
burthens of railways, stage carriages, steam vessels, mail coaches, omnibuses and
hackney carriages; with an appendix, containing report of the committee of the House
of Commons against the taxation of internal conveyances; statistics ; and other usseful
information.
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BRADFIELD John Edwin
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« In a book on
Roads and Railroads
which came into my hands after the following pages were penned, the writer quotes
a remark of Reynal’s, that « Wherever we find no facilities for travelling from a
city to a town, or from a village to a hamlet, we may pronounce the people to be Barbarians
».
That many of our country districts are rapidly approaching, to this lamentable want
of facilities of transit for the laboring classes cannot be doubted by the traveller.
The cause of such a semi-barbarous state I have endeavoured to point out, and sought
to suggest the remedy, to be summed up in a few words; the cause, is an unjust and
oppressive system of taxation on the conveyances; the remedy, abolish the taxes on
travelling.
Whatever imperfections may appear in my compilation, (and in wishing to give concise
glances at the many incidents of a national question, I am certain I cannot be free
from them) I trust will be pointed out for correction in a subsequent impression.
To the numerous gentlemen who have so liberally sub scribed their names for copies
of the hand-book, and to the Stage Coach owners throughout England, Scotland and Wales,
who have readily supplied information and suggestions, I must tender my warmest thanks;
and in the hope that my reader will be instructed by the little book, I respectfully
submit it. » Présentation de l’éditeur (1855)