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Early carriages and roads (1903)

Gilbey, Walter, Sir, 1831-1914 · London : Vinton & Co., Ltd. · leaf 42

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rs the streets, breaks up the pavements andcause increase in the prices of forage. Forwhich reasons the use of hackney coachesin London and Westminster and the suburbsis forbidden altogether, unless the passengeris making a journey of at least three miles.Within the city limits only private… … sixty hackney carriages in London : themajority of these were probably owned byJames Duke of Hamilton, Charles Masterof the Horse, to whom was granted in Julyof that year power to license fifty hackneycoachmen in London, Westminster and thesuburbs, and in other convenient places;and this…

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