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The roads and railroads, vehicles, and modes of travelling, of ancient and modern countries; with accounts of bridges, tunnels, and canals, in various parts of the world .. (1839)

London : J.W. Parker · leaf 260

An illustration from The roads and railroads, vehicles, and modes of travelling, of ancient and modern countries; with accounts of bridges, tunnels, and canals, in various parts of the world .., 1839, leaf 260 — HICLES OF ENGLAND. 247 The stanhope and the tilbury are forms that differvery slightly from each other. The latter was namedafter its inventor, a coach-builder; and the former aftera brother of the Earl of Harrington. The stanhope wasintended as an improvement upon the tilbury. The tilburyis… … Tilbury. The cabriolet, of which the name and the vehicle arederived from the French, is a one horse-vehicle, thatpossesses the advantage of a covered head, which can belet down or opened at pleasure, thus protecting the rider

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