New-Cleckit Dominie on Nostr: The remains of Goldsworthy Gurney's ill-fated steam carriage, in the Riverside ...
The remains of Goldsworthy Gurney's ill-fated steam carriage, in the Riverside Museum, #Glasgow.
"We shall express the same opinion of Mr. Gurney’s engine that a Scotchman once gave of his own fowling-piece, that the gun was a very good gun, but only wanted a new stock, lock and barrel." (John Scott Russell, 1832)
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