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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 edition. Excerpt: ...of all the best machines, and with every information requisite for their instruction. It is to be recollected that this was in the Morticing. and plan-year 1853: and at that time there were no ingma-. chines. such things made in England as morticing or planing machines, both of which are now so common. These machines were supplied by American manufacturers to the workshops of the ' Canada Works ' for the Grand Trunk Railway. It is some comfort to our national vanity to find that Mr. Hodges, after giving due praise to the American manufacturers for the lighter kind of machinery, adds: --' I am bound to state, on the other hand, that in the construction of machinery for Chap, undertaking heavy work, England has car- ----' ried the palm against every other nation. ' For this description of work Mr. Whit-worth has given tools to the world which no other maker could have produced.' Bogie On the Grand Trunk Railway the Con-engines adopted, tractors were obliged to adopt the American system of locomotives: these American engines were all constructed with ' bogies.' It is well known that ' the bogie carriage yields to every irregularity in the railroad, whether it be horizontal or lateral, whereas, in an ordinary English locomotive, the leading wheels would soon be worn out from the violent oscillation and vibration arising from the traffic on the rough railroads which exist in America.' English It may be noted that Mr. Hodges justly American claims the ' bogie ' as an English invention; and he adds, ' in real truth most of their (American) inventions are English, which they have adopted.' His remarks with respect to the relative merits of English, American, and German labourers, are very valuable, as coming from one who has had such large experience...

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