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of Stones placed in the road purposely by some 

 enemies of the new system, upon which occasion 

 it broke an axle ; but of course this was not attribu- 

 table to any fault of its construction or working. 



Messrs, Ogle and Summers ran a steam carriage 

 which attained a speed of from thirty- two to thirty-five 

 miles. Osfle made a statement to this effect before 

 a Committee of the House of Commons : " It ran on 

 the Southampton main-road, and on a rising gradient 

 near Southampton it went twenty-four and a half 

 miles an hour," This was probably from the town 

 up what is called the Avenue, across the common, and 

 so on to Basset ; they carried two hundred and fifty 

 pounds of steam, ran eight hundred miles, and never 

 met with an accident, 



Thurston tells us that Colonel Maceroni, in 1833, 

 ran a steam carriage of his own design from London 

 to Windsor and back with eleven passengers, a 

 distance of twenty-three and a half miles, in two 

 hours. 



Sir Charles Dance ran his carriage sixteen miles 

 an hour, and made long excursions into the country at 

 the rate of nine miles an hour. Another enthusiast 

 constructed a road locomotive with which he ascended 

 Lickley Hill, between Worcester and Birmingham, 

 up a very steep gradient ; this road is said to be 

 one of the worst in England, and yet this engine 

 towed a coach up it containing twenty passengers, 



Hancock, after this, built a carriage propelled 

 by steam, w^hich he christened the "Infant;" it 

 commenced work in 1831. Another, called the " Era," 

 was built for the London and Greenwich Steam 

 Carriage Company ; this was mechanically a success. 

 In October, the "Infant" ran to Brighton from 



