The proposed Manchester Ship Canal
Subtitle: facts and figures in favour of a tidal navigation to Manchester, showing how to solve the cheap transport problem for the great import and export trade of Lancashire and the West Riding
By: by Mancuniensis
Edition: Abridged edition.
Series: Making of the Modern World, Part IV: 1800-1890; Making of the Modern World, Part IV: 1800-1890
Publisher: George Henshaw
Published: 1882
Place of publication: Manchester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 15
Subjects: Manchester Ship Canal Co
Notes: "Any improvement which will enable ocean-going vessels to discharge their cargoes in a commodious wet dock in Manchester would form an epoch of such magnitutde in the history of Manchester as would quadruple her population, and render her the first as well as the most enterprising city in Europe - the late Sir Wm. Fairbanks on the improvement of the Irwell."

Reproduction of the original from the Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature, Senate House Library, University of London.

Shelfmark number: [G.L.] I2.882.