3-053-775 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Indian Frontier Sketches: traction-engine on the Grand Trunk Road, near Lawrencepore, 1873. Engraving from a sketch '...by a naval officer - Lieutenant Francis Ingram Palmer - who visited the camp...of exercise for the [British] Indian army, held in the early part of this year, under the personal superintendence of Lord Napier of Magdala, the Commander-in-Chief...The particular subjects of our Illustrations are merely two or three scenes and incidents in and around the camp. One of these is the apparition of a steam elephant, as we might call the monster of a traction engine dragging a load of beer from the Murree station along the Grand Trunk road to Hassun Abdul. It contrasted strangely, indeed, with the beasts of burden commonly used in Asia, and these were not a little terrified by meeting their new mechanical competitor on the road'. From "Illustrated London News", 1873.