Horse traction in victorian London

Journal of Transport History

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 38-59

  Turvey, Ralph ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Horse prices; Horsepower; London transport; Nineteenth century

Indexed keywords

HORSE; NINETEENTH CENTURY; TRANSPORTATION HISTORY;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; LONDON [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS;

EID: 33749497015     PISSN: 00225266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7227/TJTH.26.2.3     Document Type: Review

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2. Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers (London, 1857).
3. H. Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor (London, 1851-62), letter LXXIII, Thursday 10 October 1850.
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5. Walter Wellman, Special Report on the Market for American Horses in Foreign Countries, Fifty-fifth Congress, Third Session, Senate Documents (1897).
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13. Greater London Record Office Ace. 2305/1/Barclay Perkins Rest Books.
14. Gordon, The Horse World of London, p. 18.
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24. PRO, RAIL 1133/147, Number of horses with vans returned for assessed taxes by Pickford's, p. 73.
25. Fifteenth Report of the Commissioners for Metropolitan Roads North of the Thames, P.P. (1841) (1) XII, 249.
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30. According to Wellman, Special Report.
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33. 'Memorial of the Stage Carriage Proprietors to the Chancellor of the Exchequer', 1855, in a pamphlet published by the Stage Carriage Committee entitled General Wyndham's MP Motion as to Cavalry and Artillery Horses.
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35. Gordon, The Horse World of London.
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37. Live Stock Journal and Fanciers' Gazette, 23 February 1877, p. 145.
38. R. S. Reynolds, An Essay on the Breeding and Management of Draught Horses (London, 1882), p. 91.
39. Gordon, The Horse World of London, p. 50.
40. PRO, RAIL 1114/33, LGOC report for the first half of 1875.
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42. Courtesy of the Whitbread Archive (Archivist, Nicholas Redman).
43. PRO, RAIL 527 2186.
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45. London Metropolitan Archives, Ace. 73.37-47, Truman Hanbury & Buxton Rest Expenses volumes.
46. Data by courtesy of the Whitbread Archive (Archivist, Nicholas Redman): 1874-91 from General Ledger, 1887-1900 from Horse Book entries (which agree to within £2 for the overlap) using only the first twenty purchases in the years 1891-98 and the first forty-five in 1899 and 1900.
47. May, 'The London Cab Trade', chapter 5.
48. This information is used by gracious permission of HM the Queen. The data 1837-53 are from RA MOH HB1, the Royal Horse Book, and the data for 1853-95 from RA MOH AR1-4, Annual Reports. Many horses were bought from Mr Dyson of Waltham Cross for 130 guineas.
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54. Select Committee of the House of Lords on Horses, P.P. (1873), XIV, report.
55. C. Feinstein, Studies in Capital Formation in the United Kingdom, 1750-1920 (Oxford, 1988), appendix table X.
56. Mitchell with Deane, Abstract of British Historical Statistics.
57. Reports by the Commissioners appointed to Inquire into the Horse Breeding Industry in Ireland, P.P. (1898), XXXIII, q. 3601.
58. Year Book of the US Department of Agriculture, 1897 (Washington DC, 1897), p. 264.
59. Year Book of the US Department of Agriculture, 1896 (Washington DC, 1896), p. 33.
60. Reports by the Commissioners appointed to Inquire into the Horse Breeding Industry in Ireland, P.P. (1898), XXXIII, qq. 13,645-50.
61. Wellman, Special Report.
62. Later on they improved! Having found horse acquisition a major problem during the Boer War, the War Office got round to having a horse census taken in 1917 and repeated it in 1924 and 1934 so as to be well prepared for the next war. (F. M. L. Thompson, 'Nineteenth-century horse sense', Economic History Review, second series, 29 (1976), pp. 60-81.
63. Computed from a manuscript note in the LGOC accounts for the first half of 1894.
64. The LGOC's receipts per bus per week rose less than the number of passengers carried per bus from 1870 to 1875.