FAILURE PROPHESIED FOR INVENTOR’S PLANS OF LOCO. TRANSPORT
[Stockton Inventor George Stephenson, former cow-herd and colliery ginhorse driver, has received full authority to action the construction of a travelling locomotive service for goods and passengers between Stockton and Darlington. The directors of the scheme intended to use waggons and horses over this new route, but so successful were the trials in 1814 of My Lord,_ Stephenson’s first travelling engine, that they have decided to let the inventor and his works have a run. The most eminent engineers of the day are sceptical, prophesy general failure, but these are changing times, and it well may be that Stephenson has got something. The enterprise will be watched with interest.
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Korero (AEWS), Volume 2, Issue 15, 31 July 1944, Page 17
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117FAILURE PROPHESIED FOR INVENTOR’S PLANS OF LOCO. TRANSPORT Korero (AEWS), Volume 2, Issue 15, 31 July 1944, Page 17
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