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[Timothy Hackworth, locomotive pioneer.] Corrected manuscript and typescript of Robert Young's biography of his father-in-law: 'Timothy Hackworth and the Locomotive', with typescripts of two lectures by Young and a copy of the book.

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Timothy Hackworth (1786-1850) of Shildon, County Durham, locomotive pioneer; his son-in-law Robert Young (1860-1932)
Publication details: 
The book published by The Locomotive Publishing Company, Ltd., 3 Amen Corner, Paternoster Row, London, EC4. 1923. Manuscript and typescripts undated (c.1920s).
£1,250.00

Timothy Hackworth is, as his entry in the Oxford DNB states, 'one of the great pioneers of the steam locomotive'. It was the view of the eminent railway engineer D. K. Clark, writing in 1855, that no single individual had, up to the year 1830, done so much for the improvement of the locomotive. Robert Young's biography of his father-in-law (he married Hackworth's youngest daughter Jane) is a solid and well researched book of permanent interest, intelligently-written and drawing on personal information.

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