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... Western board . The squabbles of the North Western board with their shareholders advisory committee . A few types of automatic couplers ... ... 202-235 APPENDIX . Directors of principal English railways . Dividends on Brighton A stocks ...
... Western board . The squabbles of the North Western board with their shareholders advisory committee . A few types of automatic couplers ... ... 202-235 APPENDIX . Directors of principal English railways . Dividends on Brighton A stocks ...
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... Western and various other lines , including one between Birmingham and Liver- pool , were also in course of construction , their cost averaging from £ 35,000 to £ 55,000 per mile , being considerably in excess of the estimates . There ...
... Western and various other lines , including one between Birmingham and Liver- pool , were also in course of construction , their cost averaging from £ 35,000 to £ 55,000 per mile , being considerably in excess of the estimates . There ...
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... Western and Isle of Wight Railways were in 1890 desirous of obtaining powers for duplication of their stocks , on the ground that on conversion , the stocks in their new form , would be more convenient and attractive to investors , and ...
... Western and Isle of Wight Railways were in 1890 desirous of obtaining powers for duplication of their stocks , on the ground that on conversion , the stocks in their new form , would be more convenient and attractive to investors , and ...
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... Western , and , as he believed , on the part of the Great Western also , against making any change whatever . A third witness of the railway companies was strongly opposed to duplication altogether , on the ground that if the proportion ...
... Western , and , as he believed , on the part of the Great Western also , against making any change whatever . A third witness of the railway companies was strongly opposed to duplication altogether , on the ground that if the proportion ...
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... Western Consolidated Ordinary 27,902,140 100 Brighton Ordinary 3,235,140 100 Preferred Ordinary 6 per cent . 2,751,230 100 Deferred Ordinary 2,731,230 100 North Western Consolidated Ordinary 42,731,878 100 South Western Do. Preferred ...
... Western Consolidated Ordinary 27,902,140 100 Brighton Ordinary 3,235,140 100 Preferred Ordinary 6 per cent . 2,751,230 100 Deferred Ordinary 2,731,230 100 North Western Consolidated Ordinary 42,731,878 100 South Western Do. Preferred ...
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31st December Accounts to 31st Acworth amount assets auditors authorised automatic couplings balance sheet Bart Board of Trade Brighton Company capital account capital expenditure carriages cars cash cent Chinley coach committee company's Consolidated construction cost couplers Debenture Stock deferred stock directors Ditto dividends duplication earnings Eastern Eaton Square effected employés engines English railways existing fact Fraser fund guaranteed holders improvements increase interests invested issued James Allport liabilities loan capital locomotives London Lord loss matter ment Midland Railway miles millions nominal additions nominal share capital North Western open for traffic ordinary stock paid permanent preferred profit Rail railroads railway accounts railway companies railway management receipts reduced regard result revenue accounts roads rolling stock Samuel Laing servants shareholders Stamp Act STATEMENT of Accounts steam third class passengers tion Total trains United Kingdom waggons whilst Widening Line
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Page 186 - January, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, it shall be unlawful for any such common carrier to haul or permit to be hauled or used on its line any car used in moving interstate traffic not equipped with couplere coupling automatically by impact, and which can be uncoupled without the necessity of men going between the ends of the cars.
Page 8 - That they are not (or need not be, if properly constructed) nuisances to the public. "7. That they will become a speedier and cheaper mode of conveyance than carriages drawn by horses. "8. That as they admit of greater breadth of tire than other carriages, and as the roads are not acted on so injuriously as by the feet of horses in common draught, such carriages will cause less wear of roads than coaches drawn by horses. "9. That rates of toll have been imposed on steam carriages, which would prohibit...
Page 66 - ... issued by any commissioners incorporated by Act of Parliament for the purpose of supplying water, and having a compulsory power of levying rates over an area having, according to the returns of the last census prior to the date of investment, a population exceeding fifty thousand, provided that...
Page 186 - An Act to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip their cars with automatic couplers and continuous brakes and their locomotives with driving-wheel brakes, and for other purposes...
Page 8 - That at this rate they have conveyed upwards of fourteen passengers. 3. That their weight, including engine, fuel, water and attendants, may be under three tons. 4. That they can ascend and descend hills of considerable inclination with facility and safety. 5. That they are perfectly safe for passengers. 6.
Page 32 - ... for every 100/., and any fraction of 100/. over any multiple of 100/. of the amount of such capital or increase of capital as the case may be.
Page 271 - Majesty, upon giving to the said company three calendar months notice in writing of their intention, and upon payment of a sum equal to twenty-five years purchase of the said annual divisible profits, estimated on the average of the three then next preceding years...
Page 185 - It is a reproach to our civilization that any class of American workmen should, in the pursuit of a necessary and useful vocation, be subjected to a peril of life and limb as great as that of a soldier in time of war.
Page 249 - ... fide due thereon after charging the revenue of the half-year with all expenses which ought to be paid thereout...