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The Efficiency of Britain's “Silly Little Bobtailed” Coal Wagons: A Comment on Van Vleck

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2009

Peter Scott
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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 59 , Issue 4 , December 1999 , pp. 1072 - 1080
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Copyright © The Economic History Association 1999

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