TREVITHICK'S AND GRIFFITH'S STEAM CARRIAGES. 21s 



to the expenses of working a steam waggon that 

 would carry one hundred barrels of flour fifty miles 

 in twenty-four hours. 



Richard Trevithick, in 1S02, made a steam carriage 

 for use on the common roads. He was a pupil of 

 Murdoch, who was partner to James Watt. Tre- 

 vithick's engine is still to be seen in the Patent 

 Museum, at South Kensington. This was a high- 

 pressure boiler, and consequently no weighty con- 

 denser had to be carried. 



In 182 1, Julius Griffith, of Brompton, London, 

 patented a road locomotive, to carry passengers ; 

 this was built by the inventor of the celebrated 

 Bramah lock. The boiler in this engine did not 

 prove large enough for continuous work. After this 

 came the Gurney locomotive, spoken of before. 

 Gurney's carriage was like a large four-horse coach, 

 and carried several passengers ; it was built in 1828, 

 and was remarkably well constructed. There were 

 many others built about this time, but it would occupy 

 too much space to describe them here. Then there 

 were Hancock's steam carriages, of which he had 

 quite half-a-dozen. In 1831, Hancock placed his 

 first steam carriao^e on the road between London 

 and Stratford, where it ran regularly for hire. 



A Sir Charles Dance, the same year, started another 

 steam carriage between Cheltenham and Gloucester, 

 where, a writer on the subject says, it ran from 

 February 21st to June 22nd, travelling three thousand 

 five hundred miles, and carrying three thousand 

 passengers ; running the nine miles in fifty-five 

 minutes, and sometimes in three-quarters of an hour ; 

 and that, during the whole time, it never met with 

 a single accident except once, when it ran over a heap 



