Excerpt from Famous Engineers of the Nineteenth Century Stage - coaches for the conveyance of those who desired to travel expeditiously were not established in this country until the year 1657, although private carriages had been in use for sixty years previous to the introduction of coaches designed for public hire and, for a considerable time after the latter had become a necessity to their patrons, the old lumbering waggon, with its six horses and usual pace of three miles an hour, continued to hold a high place in the ...
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Excerpt from Famous Engineers of the Nineteenth Century Stage - coaches for the conveyance of those who desired to travel expeditiously were not established in this country until the year 1657, although private carriages had been in use for sixty years previous to the introduction of coaches designed for public hire and, for a considerable time after the latter had become a necessity to their patrons, the old lumbering waggon, with its six horses and usual pace of three miles an hour, continued to hold a high place in the estimation of the English traveller. One reason for this was to be found in the very imperfect condition of the roads. Tedious as the rate of progression may have been, travelling by the antiquated means of a stage-waggon in those days was more suited to the neglected highways and the tastes of the people, than by the lighter, and consequently less safe, rival which was struggling slowly into public favour. Some idea of the distaste with which the stage-coach was at first re garded may be conceived from the suggestion of a writer who published a pamphlet in the year 1 673. He says The mul titude of stage-coaches and caravans travelling on the roads might all, or most of them, be suppressed, especially those within forty, fifty, or sixty miles of London. Feeling that his covert advice was not likely to be adopted, however, the author slightly moderates his tone, and gravely proposes that the number of stage-coaches should not exceed the pro portion of one vehicle to each county town; that the coaches should individually make one double-journey weekly, return ing with the same horses with which they set out; and that the rate of travelling should be limited to thirty miles daily in summer, and twenty-five in winter. The argument. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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