A History of Inland Transport and Communication in England/Authorities

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Gilbey, Sir Walter: "Early Carriages and Roads" (1903).

Gordon, Alexander: "An Historical and Practical Treatise upon Elemental Locomotion by Means of Steam Carriages on Common Roads" (1832).

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Parliamentary Reports and Papers:—

Census of Production (1907). [Cd. 5254.]

Departmental Committee on Railway Agreements and Amalgamations (1911). [Cd. 5631.]

Joint Committee on the Amalgamation of Railway Companies (1872). [364.]

Local Taxation, by H. H. Fowler (Lord Wolverhampton) (1893). [168.]

Railway Returns for 1910 (1911). [Cd. 5796.]

Road Board, First Report of (1911). [292.]

Royal Commission on Canals and Waterways: Fourth and Final Report (1909). [Cd. 4979.]

Royal Commission on the Railway Conciliation Scheme of 1907 (1911). [Cd. 5922.]

Select Committee on the Expediency of Abolishing Turnpike Trusts (1864). [383.]

Select Committee on the Highways of the Kingdom (1819). [509.]

Select Committee on Turnpike Trusts and Tolls (1836). [547.]

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Plymley, Joseph, Archdeacon of Salop: "General View of the Agriculture of Shropshire" (1803).

Porter, G. R.: "The Progress of the Nation" (1846).

Porter, Robert P.: "The Dangers of Municipal Trading" (1907).

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Potter, F.: "The Government in Relation to the Railways," a Paper read before the Great Western Railway (London) Lecture and Debating Society (1909).

Pratt and Mackenzie: "Law of Highways" (15th ed.).

Priestley, Joseph: "Historical Account of the Navigable Rivers, Canals and Railways of Great Britain" (1831).

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"Reprints of Rare Tracts: Letters of William Scott" (1847).

Rogers, J. E. Thorold: "History of Agriculture and Prices in England."

Sandars, Joseph: "A Letter on the Subject of the Proposed Rail Road between Liverpool and Manchester, pointing out the necessity for its adoption and the manifest advantages it offers to the Public, with an Exposure of the exorbitant and unjust charges of the Water Carriers" (1824).

Smiles, Samuel: "Lives of the Engineers" (1861).

Smith, Adam: "The Wealth of Nations" (1776).

Stretton, Clement E.: "Early Tramroads and Railways in Leicestershire"; "History of the Loughborough and Nanpantan Edge-rail-way"; "The Leicester and Swannington Railway," etc.

Stukeley, William, M.D.: "Itinerarium Curiosum" (2nd ed., 1776).

"Survey of London"; edited by Walter Besant.

Sydney, William Connor: "England and the English in the Eighteenth Century" (1891).

Tatham, William: "The Political Economy of Inland Navigation" (1799).

"The Motor Car in the First Decade of the 20th Century," compiled by W. Eden Hooper (1908).

"The Rating of Railways," Great Western Railway Magazine Booklet (1908).

"The Tourists' Guide to Bridgnorth" (1875).

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Thrupp, George A.: "The History of Coaches" (1877).

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Tristram, W. Outram: "Coaching Days and Coaching Ways" (1888).

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Walford, Cornelius: "Fairs Past and Present" (1883).

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Wheeler, W. H.: "Tidal Rivers" (1893).

Whitaker, T. D.: "Loidis and Elmete" (1846).

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Yarranton, Andrew: "England's Improvement by Sea and Land.... With the Advantages of making the Great Rivers of England Navigable" (1672).

Young, Arthur: "A Six Weeks' Tour through the Southern Counties" (1769); "A Six Months' Tour through the North of England" (1770).