Index 



527 



early clays of steam-coaches, 

 473-4 ; traction engines, 4715 ; 

 hostile legislation, 475-6 ; the 

 MagnaChartaofautomobilism, 

 476 ; Motor-Car Act of 1903, 

 477 ; Heavy Motor-Car Order 

 of 1904, 477-8 ; pleasure cars 

 in use, 478 ; Royal Automobile 

 Club, 478-9 ; Automobile 

 Association and Motor Union, 

 479 ; road improvements, 

 480-2 ; commercial motors, 

 482-5 ; motor -cabs, 485-7 ; 

 motor industry, 487-90 ; im- 

 ports and exports, 489-90 ; 

 motors and railway strikes, 503 

 Municipal Tramways Association : 

 469 



Nails, Cart-wheel : 44, 49-50 

 Nash, T. : 114 

 Newcastle-on-Tyne : Coaches, 53 ; 



salt trade, 140 

 Nicholson, J. Shield : 2 

 "Nimrod": 107 

 North British Rly. : 289, 367 

 North-Eastern Rly. : 287, 289, 290, 



367, 371, 424-5 

 North Staffordshire Rly.: 210-11, 



37 

 Nottingham, Early importance of: 



121, 122, 137 



Oakley, Sir Henry : 339, 340, 341 



Ogilby, J onn : 33-4 



Omnibuses : Introduction of, 63 ; 

 motor-omnibuses : competition 

 with tramways, 466-7, 497-8, 

 with railways, 496, 499, 501-3; 

 succeed horse-omnibuses, 485- 



Outram, Benjamin : 204 

 Overton, George : 225, 240 

 Owner's risk rates on railways : 



35 1 - 2 



Oxford : Coaches to, 53 ; Univer- 

 sity and river transport, 125 



Packhorse, Transport by: 15, 16, 

 32, 36, 90, 91, 127, 138, 139, 

 140, 146, 161 



Paley, W. P. : 224 . 



Palmer, John : 55 



Parnell, Sir Henry : 326 



Passengers : In packhorse pan- 

 niers, 16 ; by long waggon, 38, 

 42 ; stage - coach, 38-42 ; 

 canals, 172, 265 ; rail, 498-9 



Patten, Thomas : 138 



Paving, Early Britons and : 6 



Pearson, Charles: 5, 8, 108, III 



Pedlars: 17, 21, 93 



Peel, Sir Frederick : 353 



Peel, Sir Robert : 259, 262, 263, 

 271, 281 



Pension funds, Railway : 438 



Permanent Way Institution : 428 



Perry, G. : 117 



Philippe, William : 13 



Phillipps, W. D. : 210-11 



Phillips, J. : 183, 184, 193, 214 



Pilgrims: 16 



Plymley, Joseph : 44, 114, 117, 152, 

 153, 164, 220,312 



Polyhistor, T. S. : 202 



Porter, G. R. : 74, 106, 255-6, 

 266-7 



Porter, Robert P. : 458, 464 n. 



Posting.: 57 



Post Office and Railways : 264-5 



Potter, F. : 351-2, 428 



Pottery industry: 159-61, 175, 

 i?6, 307 



Powell, E. T. : 402 



Preferential railway rates : 352 



Priestley, Joseph : 120 



Private Owners of Railway Rolling 

 Stock, Association of: 361 n. 



Prussian State Railways : 255, 291, 



292, 357, 359, 365 . 

 Public Service Commission of New 

 York City : 493 



Railless electric traction : 467-70, 



507 



Railway agreements and amalga- 

 mations : 278, 283-91, 433, 

 508-11 



Railway and Canal Commission : 

 278 ., 355, 5oS 



Railway Benevolent Institution : 



439 

 Railway Classification : 337-40, 



345-6 

 Railway Clearing House, 284, 337, 



33, 359 



