Smith's Ship Railway
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1890 Mr. William Smith, M.Inst. C.E., Aberdeen, the patentee of an arrangement of ship railway which has attracted considerable attention within the past year or two, constructed at the Edinburgh Exhibition a small railway, according to his patented design, to demonstrate the method of construction and working. At the time we gave a description of it and of the principle adopted.' [Engineering, vol. xlviii., page 636, and vol. xlix. page 432.] 'He subsequently invited two experts, Sir E. J. Reed and Mr. W. R. Kinipple, to inspect the railway and report on its practicability and its efficiency for transporting seagoing ships. .....'[1]
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