Bridging the Years: A Short History of British Civil EngineeringE. Arnold, 1956 - 212 páginas |
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... companies who had expended so much money in serving well the public need . Their efforts to show that fast canal passenger service could compete with the railways were not successful . The value of shares dropped until at last the share ...
... companies who had expended so much money in serving well the public need . Their efforts to show that fast canal passenger service could compete with the railways were not successful . The value of shares dropped until at last the share ...
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A Short History of British Civil Engineering Charles Matthew Norrie. holders in many canal companies were glad to sell to one or other of the new railway companies which were being launched as private ventures all over the country , each ...
A Short History of British Civil Engineering Charles Matthew Norrie. holders in many canal companies were glad to sell to one or other of the new railway companies which were being launched as private ventures all over the country , each ...
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... companies . Before and after 1860 many absorptions of small , and amalgamations of large , railway companies took place with the result that numerous lines were built to link various acquisitions or to create new direct routes which ...
... companies . Before and after 1860 many absorptions of small , and amalgamations of large , railway companies took place with the result that numerous lines were built to link various acquisitions or to create new direct routes which ...
Contenido
CHAPTER PAGE | 1 |
Contracting in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Cen | 89 |
Some Notable British Civil Engineering Works I 1825 | 106 |
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