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The Clyde Passenger Steamer
Captain James Williamson
1904
Captain Williamson's 1904-published book, "The Clyde Passenger Steamer", which gives acomplete overview of all the Clyde Steamers from the appearance of Henry Bell's 1812"Comet" to the appearance of the 1901 "King Edward", was uploaded on to scribd.com’s‘Clyde Steamer’ lists athttp://www.scribd.com/doc/1412977/Clyde-Passenger-Steamer-Capt- James-Williamson-1904-408Pagesin January 2008 but, for unknown reason, only the firstforty or so pages converted properly to scribd’s then but barely eighteen-month old webpagesystem of publishing, the failure only noticed in recent time and, hopefully, everything nowto be found online and available for downloading after reading these notes. The fact that none of the more than 6,000 people who tried to read the book onlinecommented on the problems, nearly 200 of them downloading the faulty file in an attempt toopen, is in hindsight quite remarkable !Such was the size of Williamson’s book, its 408-pages taking up more than 35 mb of spaceand on occasion taking more than two hours to download if using a ‘dial-up’ internetconnection, that the decision was taken to split the book’s PDF file into 11 sections which,using a PDF ‘Spitter/Merger’ programme, could then be re-joined into a single volume. The software program used to split the original PDF file copy of the book should also, if a closecheck is kept on the renaming of files as one carries out the reconstruction process, enable1
 
one to reconstruct the whole of the book in little less than an hour, even if one is unfamiliarwith the process and one should begin by downloading the “Free PD Fill PDF Editor 7.0” fromhttp://www.pdfill.com/pdf_tools_free.htmland Download fromhttp://www.pdfill.com/download.html it too probably necessary, which one will be told after the download, to download theFree GhostScript 8.64 (10MB)program, the downloads and installation(s) straightforward.
The Free PDF EditorThere are 11 links here for the various sections and chapters of Williamson’s “ClydePassenger Steamer”
Clyde Passenger Steamer - 01 - Pages 1 - 41
CHAPTER I
- EARLY DAYS
Clyde Passenger Steamer - 02 - Pages 42 - 86
CHAPTER II
- SUCCESSORS TO THE 'COMET'
CHAPTER III
- EXCURSIONS, ENTERPRISES AND DISASTERS
Clyde Passenger Steamer - 03 - Pages 87 - 118
CHAPTER IV
- INVENTIONS AND DEVELOPMENTS
Clyde Passenger Steamer - 04 - Pages 119 - 140
CHAPTER V
- RAILWAY AND STEAMER
CHAPTER VI
- THE LIVELY FIFTIES
Clyde Passenger Steamer - 05 - Pages 141 - 177
CHAPTER VII
- THE RAILWAY INVASION2
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