BY THE SAME AUTHOR. Modern Cycles. A Practical Handbook on their Construction and Repair. Crown 8vo, 356 pages, with 304 Illustrations. Cloth, price ros. 6d. post free. "A most comprehensive and up-to-date treatise."-The Cycle.. "A very useful book, quite entitled to rank as a standard work for students of cycle construction."-Wheeling. Refrigerating and Ice-Making Machinery. Crown 8vo, 300 pages, 87 Illustrations. Cloth, bevelled edges, price 7s. 6d. post free. His "One of the best compilations on the subject. The description of the different refrigerating machines, and the principles on which they act, are described with an intelligent appreciation of the means and the end. book may be recommended as a useful description of the machinery, the processes, and of the facts, figures, and tabulated physics of its subject."The Engineer. Sanitary Arrangement of Dwelling Houses. Crown 8vo, 206 pages, 123 Illustrations. Cloth, price 2s 6d. post free. "This book will no doubt be largely read, and will, we venture to think, be of considerable service to the public."-The Lancet. LONDON: CROSBY LOCKWOOD & SON, Printed at THE DARIEN PRESS, Edinburgh. CALIFORNIA MOTOR CARS OR POWER-CARRIAGES FOR COMMON ROADS BY A. J. WALLIS-TAYLER, C.E. ASSOC. MEMB. INST. C.E. AUTHOR OF "REFRIGERATING AND ICE-MAKING MACHINERY,' ""SUGAR MACHINERY," With numerous Fllustrations. Capin Yumer 77 LONDON CROSBY LOCKWOOD AND SON 7 STATIONERS' HALL COURT, LUDGATE HILL 1897 D. VAN NOSTRAND COMPANY, NEW YORK. PREFACE. HE extraordinary restrictions against travelling THE by mechanical means over the roads of this country, which have existed for so long a time, have now been partly removed by the passing of the Locomotives on Highways Act of 1896. Those restrictions have doubtless been the means of inflicting very great injury upon the trade of the country. This, indeed, must be only too evident, when it is considered that not merely have large and struggling classes of the community been debarred for years from the advantages they would have derived from this method of transport, but English engineers, unable to carry out even the needful experiments, have been forced to stand idly by, instead of occupying themselves in developing and perfecting the power-propelled road carriage, and so establishing a great industry. At the present moment, it seems to the author that a satisfactory power-propelled carriage for common roads has yet to be designed. All that past experi 464541 |