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Excerpt from Some Recent Developments in Locomotive Practice
The Members of the Royal Engineers' Institute, having done me the honour of preserving these letters by printing them among their professional papers, I venture with their kind permission to offer them to a wider public, in the hope that they may contain information interesting to others who watch the growth of Locomotive development in this country.
The subject is set forth under the various headings and sub-sections which were given me as a synopsis on which to work, and which I have endeavoured to follow carefully in accordance with the wishes of the authorities.
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