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 267
he substitution of the omnibus forthe stage-coach. A few years back, the streets of Londoncontained few public conveyances, but hackney-coaches;those remnants of the last century,—the last resort ofworn-out coach-horses. These carriages were usually the 254 HACKNEY-COACHES. rejected vehicles of the… … Hackney-Coach. After a time, the cabriolet, or, with that clipping of wordsto which the English are so prone,—the cab, wasestablished. If one person hired a hackney-coach, he hadto pay as much as if four persons rode in it; and it wasprincipally to accommodate parties of one or two persons,that the…
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