Author: BUCKNALL SMITH, J.
Title: A Treatise Upon Cable Or Rope Traction, As Applied to the Working of Street and other Railways.
Description: First Revised Edition; 4to; pp. xii, 195; xii pages of advertisements at rear; frontispiece, 76 illustrations including fold out diagrams of Chicago cable tramways, wire rope-closing machine, the Clifton colliery underground haulage system and colliery winding engines, index; original green cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine and black on front, marks to cloth, edges and corners worn and bumped, flecking to page edges, a good copy. London, Offices of "Engineering," 1887. Rare. Revised and Enlarged from 'Engineering.'

Keywords: railway history rail tracks engineering machinery trains transport