 | Mineral industries - 1908 - 852 pages
...Calder and Hebble navigation, which, although of twice the width required by the narrow boat, are 10 feet too short. Again, the narrow boat occasions a...amount of transhipment, as it is not safe to send it on wide estuaries or tidal waters. When goods are to be sent from London to Liverpool direct, narrow... | |
 | Institution of Mining Engineers (Great Britain) - Mineral industries - 1908 - 854 pages
...Galder and Hebble navigation, which, although of twice tho width required by the narrow boat, are 10 feet too short. Again, the narrow boat occasions a...amount of transhipment, as it is not safe to send it on wide estuaries or tidal waters. When goods are to be sent from London to Liverpool direct, narrow... | |
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Leeds, it will fa.il altogether, as it will be stopped at either Wigan, Sowerby Bridge, or Cooper Bridge by the locks of the Leeds and Liverpool canal, or Calder and Hebble navigation, which, although of twice the width required by the narrow boat, are... 