Carriages & coaches : their history & their evolution (1912)
Straus, Ralph, 1882-1950 · London : Martin Secker · leaf 188
beneath the seat used to contain a hammer andother tools necessary in case of a breakdown, whencethe name. The anonymous author of the coach-buildingarticles in the Carriage Builders and Harness-Makers^Art Journal scouts this idea, and suggests that it ismerely a corruption of hamper-cloth—the box… … 1-4 K^ 2? %i <S ti. r-4 ■-i •*^ ■-. ft; <Vi ^ C5 ^ Q^ EARLY GEORGIAN CARRIAGES 159 cloth, which vaguely suggests suspension of a kind. Itis perhaps not a very important question. Advertisements also mention a Curtin Coach for 6Peofle^ and a Chasse maree Coach, ^ which was someform of covered…
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