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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 171 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DOVER-See also:CANALE 171 See also:adhesion being thus obtained by the magnetic attraction exercised on the See also:iron See also:chain; and it was also adopted about the same See also:time in See also:combination with See also:electrical haulage on a small portion of the Bourgogne canal, See also:electricity being employed to drive the motor that worked the See also:pulley. Small locomotives See also:running on rails along the towpath were tried on the See also:Shropshire See also:Union canal, where they were abandoned on See also:account of See also:practical difficulties in working, and also on certain canals in See also:France and See also:Germany, where, however, the See also:financial results were not satisfactory. On portions of the Teltow canal, joining the See also:Havel and the See also:Spree, electrical tractors run on rails along both See also:banks, taking their See also:power from an overhead See also:wire; they attain a See also:speed of 21 M. an See also:hour when hauling two 600-ton See also:barges. The electrical See also:supply is also utilized for working the See also:lock See also:gates and for various other purposes along the route of the canal. In the Mont-de-Rilly See also:tunnel, at the See also:summit level of the See also:Aisne-See also:Marne canal, a systeni of See also:cable-See also:traction was established in 1894, the boats being taken through by being attached to an endless travelling wire rope supported by pulleys en the towpath. When See also:railways were being carried out in See also:England some canal companies were alarmed for their future, and sold their canals to the railway companies, who in 1906 owned 1138 m. of canals out of a See also:total length in the See also:United See also:Kingdom of 3901 M. As some e f these canals are links in the chain of See also:internal See also:water communication complaints have frequently arisen on the question of through See also:traffic and tolls. The See also:great improvements carried out in See also:America and on the See also:continent of See also:Europe by See also:state 'aid enable manufacturers to get the raw material they use and goods they export to and from their ports at much cheaper rates than those charged on See also:British canals. The association of See also:chambers of See also:commerce and other bodies having taken up the See also:matter, a royal See also:commission was appointed in 1906 to See also:report on the canals and water-ways of the kingdom, with a view to considering how they could be more profitably used for See also:national purposes. Its Report was published in See also:December 1909. See also:Britain), 1906-9. (E.

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