TUBE, TRAIN, TRAM, AND CAR OR UP-TO-DATE LOCOMOTION [Illustration] TUBE, TRAIN, TRAM, AND CAR OR UP-TO-DATE LOCOMOTION BY ARTHUR H. BEAVAN AUTHOR OF “MARLBOROUGH HOUSE AND ITS OCCUPANTS,” “IMPERIAL LONDON,” “CROWNING THE KING,” ETC. WITH MANY ILLUSTRATIONS And an Introduction BY LLEWELLYN PREECE, M.I.E.E. [Illustration: colophon] LONDON GEO. ROUTLEDGE & SONS, LTD. NEW YORK: E. P. DUTTON & CO. 1903 [_All rights reserved._] “THE CHARIOTS RUN LIKE THE LIGHTNING” PREFACE The object of this work is to present the subject of Electrical Locomotion to the public for the first time, the author believes, in a popular form, giving interesting information about Tube, Train, Tram, and Motor-car, but avoiding, as much as possible, technical and scientific detail. Electrical traction is of national importance, destined perhaps materially to abate the evil of overcrowding, by providing cheap and rapid means of access from centres of industry to country districts and _vice versa_.