The Rise and Rise of Road Transport, 1700-1900 Book

	List of tables
	Introduction	1
	Historians' neglect of road transport	1
	New research on roads and road traffic before the railways	4
Pt. 1	Goods transport to the 1830s	8
	London carriers	8
	Provincial carriers	14
	Local carriers	16
	Private carriers	18
	Goods transport in towns	20
	The essence of eighteenth-century road transport	21
	Change in the carrying trade	23
	Droving	30
	The significance of road transport	33
Pt. 2	Passenger transport to the 1830s	35
	Greater change than in goods transport	35
	Stage coach expansion explained	38
	Other forms of passenger transport by road	41
	Contribution to economic growth	42
Pt. 3	Road transport in the railway age	43
	Horse-drawn road transport, despite its higher cost per ton-mile, continues to grow	43
	Omnibuses and hackney carriages for the middle classes	46
	Horse tramways for all	48
	Goods transport	49
	The significant pedal cycle	52
	The mechanisation of road transport: by steam, electricity or internal combustion?	53
	The rapid mechanisation of passenger transport by road, 1904-14	56
	The more gradual mechanisation of goods transport by road	60
Pt. 4	Motor transport between the wars	62
	The motor vehicle, having replaced the horse in passenger transport, captures almost all the horse-drawn freight traffic and much that would otherwise have gone by goods train	62
	The growing importance of the motor bus	65
Pt. 5	The motorway age	68
	The carriage of goods	68
	The rise of private, and the decline of public, transport by road	71
	Road transport, more important than ever in the 1990s, was always the most important transport mode	73
	Notes	75
	Bibliography	77
	Index	83