Nicholas Wilcox Cundy

“ Do you live at Liverpool?
I do.
2. You are well acquainted with Liverpool, Manchester, and the county of Lancaster?
Very well.
9. Tell us whether, in your judgment, it would be of the greatest possible advantage to Liverpool if the mail arrived there on the morning next after it left London?
Of the greatest possible advantage.
10. You are aware of the rate at which locomotive engines travel?
Yes.
11. Can they easily command twenty miles an hour? ”