Pedrocut
Master Barmmie
Motor Boat Canal Traffic.
(The Engineer, Aug 1907)
An interesting demonstration of the possibilities of motor-propelled canal boat traffic took place on the Birmingham and Worcester Canal at the end of last week, under the direction of Mr. Ed. Tailby, of Birmingham and in the presence of about fifty engineers, ironmasters, and other guests interested in improved canal traffic. Mr. Tailby explained that his motor boat, carrying 20 tons, has made nine trips in as many weeks between Birmingham and Ellesmere Port, in Cheshire, carrying cargo, and had met with no mechanical difficulties. A 15 horse-power paraffin engine was employed, and providing that the water was sufficiently deep, and the channel sufficiently wide, a speed of five or six miles an hour could be maintained. On the Ellesmere journeys the speed had averaged four miles an hour, or twice the pace of horse-drawn The cost of conveyance worked out at Id. per ton per traffic colonel Patchett, of the Shropshire Iron Company, in congratulating Mr. Tailby on what he had accomplished, referred to the great need for improved canalisation.
(The Engineer, Aug 1907)
An interesting demonstration of the possibilities of motor-propelled canal boat traffic took place on the Birmingham and Worcester Canal at the end of last week, under the direction of Mr. Ed. Tailby, of Birmingham and in the presence of about fifty engineers, ironmasters, and other guests interested in improved canal traffic. Mr. Tailby explained that his motor boat, carrying 20 tons, has made nine trips in as many weeks between Birmingham and Ellesmere Port, in Cheshire, carrying cargo, and had met with no mechanical difficulties. A 15 horse-power paraffin engine was employed, and providing that the water was sufficiently deep, and the channel sufficiently wide, a speed of five or six miles an hour could be maintained. On the Ellesmere journeys the speed had averaged four miles an hour, or twice the pace of horse-drawn The cost of conveyance worked out at Id. per ton per traffic colonel Patchett, of the Shropshire Iron Company, in congratulating Mr. Tailby on what he had accomplished, referred to the great need for improved canalisation.
