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Contents List of Illustrations(In certain versions of this etext [in certain browsers]clicking on the image,will bring up a larger version.) Index:A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I,L,M,N,O,P,Q,R,S,T,U,V,W. Some typographical errors have been corrected;a list follows the text. (etext transcriber's note)

TUBE, TRAIN, TRAM, AND CAR
OR
UP-TO-DATE LOCOMOTION

TUBE, TRAIN,
TRAM, AND CAR
OR
UP-TO-DATE LOCOMOTION

BY
ARTHUR H. BEAVAN
AUTHOR OF “MARLBOROUGH HOUSE AND ITS OCCUPANTS,” “IMPERIAL LONDON,”
“CROWNING THE KING,” ETC.

WITH MANY ILLUSTRATIONS

And an Introduction
BY
LLEWELLYN PREECE, M.I.E.E.





LONDON
GEO. ROUTLEDGE & SONS, LTD.
NEW YORK: E. P. DUTTON & CO.
1903
[All rights reserved.]



“THE CHARIOTS RUN LIKE THE LIGHTNING”

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PREFACE

THE object of this work is to present the subject of ElectricalLocomotion to the public for the first time, the author believes, in apopular form, giving interesting information about Tube, Train, Tram,and Motor-car, but avoiding, as much as possible, technical andscientific detail.

Electrical traction is of national importance, destined perhapsmaterially to abate the evil of overcrowding, by providing cheap andrapid means of access from centres of industry to country districts andvice versa.

It was predicted by George Stephenson in

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