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The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… a Great Northern train, while it was still in motion. The wheels passed over his neck and literally cut his head off, … and the sudden jerk threw him off the carriage under the wheels, which passed over his eyes, dividing his head. Death … engine driver actually laughed when Mr Cox went under the wheels, and on being indignantly reproved by a bystander for …
William and Mary, 1690: All Act for Paveing and Cleansing the Streets in the Cityes of London and Westminster and Suburbs and Liberties thereof and Out-Parishes in the County of Midlesex and in the Burrough of Southwarke and other places within the Weekly Bills of Mortality in the County of Surrey and for Regulating the Markets therein mentioned. [Chapter VIII. Rot. Parl. pt. 3. nu. 7.]
Statutes of the Realm
… to remaine without Baile or Mainprize untill Payment XVII. Wheels of Carts, Drays, &c. how to be made. Penalty 40s. … from and after the [said 10] fifteenth day of December the Wheels of every Cart Carr or Dray to be used for the Carriage … of any Cart Carr or Dray to be used as aforesaid the Wheels whereof shall not be made six Inches in the breadth or …
Statutes of the Realm
… Lanes and Allies to make use of any Cart Carr or Dray with Wheels shod with Iron and narrower then six inches in the …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary
… and industry, invented an engine consisting of screw wheels, long tumblers, etc., proper to lift up or down the …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary
… by an engine to be driven either by wind-sails, or water-wheels, and to work eighty stampers at once, and of an …