Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 1882, Vol. 67

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Excerpt from Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 1882, Vol. 67: With Other Selected and Abstracted PapersThe Author has described this system at considerable length account of the close resemblance it bears to some of the same class commonly in use on the Continent, and because the remarks of Mr. Hammett so fully correspond with his own ideas.About the time that Mr. Macdonnell introduced the sleeper just described, Mr. Bridges Adams brought out his suspended girder rail (fig. Several trial lengths Of which were laid in Eng land and in India, but, as far as he. 5. The Author can learn, they were not satisfactory, and after a few years' service were removed.The chief drawback was in the bolts and nuts, which could not be kept tight, and the difficulty of getting at them, the road was also very harsh to ride over, and liable to cant.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.