Trevithick's locomotive replica:
BBC - Swansea goes loco with replica
Typical of Crawshay to welsh on a bet. 
No wonder they buried the bastard under an iron "gravestone".
BBC - Swansea goes loco with replica
Samuel Homfray bet rival ironmaster Richard Crawshay 500 guineas that the locomotive would pull a train of wagons loaded with 10 tons of iron to the canal basin at Abercynon, and return.
The locomotive succeeded but Crawshay apparently refused to pay because the track had to be moved slightly in one place, and the locomotive needed slight repairs before returning to Merthyr.
The locomotive succeeded but Crawshay apparently refused to pay because the track had to be moved slightly in one place, and the locomotive needed slight repairs before returning to Merthyr.
No wonder they buried the bastard under an iron "gravestone".
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