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A treatise upon wheel-carriages : shewing their present defects : with a plan and description of a new constructed waggon : which will effectually preserve and improve the public roads, and be more useful, cheap, and handy to the proprietor

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1763.
Call number: 486398
Creator: Bourn, Daniel(Opens in new tab)
Dimensions: 20 cm (8vo)
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