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The history of coaches (1877)

Thrupp, George Athelstane · London : Kerby & Endean ; New York : "Hub" Pub. Co. · leaf 93

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ing smaller than coaches and lighter, wereat first called diligences. But in consequence of thespeedy passage of a stage coach from Paris to Lyons,it obtained the name of diligence, which has sinceremained to those large double coaches still ,in use onthe Continent. We also find the drawing of… … o COO UJ UJ to <—I- z-< tr: X o F-\ CHARIOT A- LaNGLAISE. 5 I chaises, phaetons, cabriolets, caleches, Anglaises des-obligecnits (or what we should call sulkies, that wouldonly contain one person), lastly and the wourst, avehicle introduced from Germany for sporting, andwhich is a Russian…

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