Note 7 — Chapter IV · TRAFFIC.
Reading edition
Vide ‘Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers,’ vol. lviii.
[8] Vide Report of the Society of Arts on the application of Science and Art to street paving and street cleansing of the metropolis, 1875.
[9] Ibid.
[10] Experiments made by the direction of the French Government on the tramway between Sèvres and Versailles, showed that a horse on a level tramway draws three-and-a-half times the weight, at the same speed and with the same expenditure of power, that he can do on an ordinary road. Up a gradient of 1 to 100, he is capable of drawing 2·25 times the weight he can do up the same gradient on an ordinary road, and up a gradient of 1 to 25 he can draw one-and-a-half times the load he can do under similar circumstances on the ordinary road.
[11] ‘Report on accidents to Horses on Carriageway Pavements,’ by William Haywood (1874).