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Stagecoaches and Carriages: An Illustrated History of Coaches and Coaching 1st Edition by Ivan G. Sparkes (Author)/5(3). Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Stagecoaches and Carriages: An Illustrated History of Coaches and Coaching by Ivan George Sparkes and Ivan G.

Sparkes (, Hardcover) at the best online prices at eBay. Free shipping for many products. Skip to main content. Early travel and the private coaches --The king's highway --Stage wagons and stagecoaches --The trials and tribulations Stagecoaches & carriages book the road --Passengers, coachmen and guards --Inns and posting stages --Passing the mail and carrying goods --Better roads and coaches --Hackney carriages, hansoms and cabs --The omnibus and the arrival of the railways.

The book is out of print - but I have found a few copies with the dust jackets. Some jackets have slight tears but the book is in very good condition.

Hard cover 8 ½” X 11”. $ gently used. The Carriage Collection, The Museums at Stony Brook The 80 vehicles listed and described in this book is a small part of the entire collection. The most profitable contracts to be had by the stage lines were U.S.

Mail contracts, which were hotly contested for. Though the Pony Express is often credited with being the first fast mail service from the Missouri River to the Pacific Coast, the Overland Mail Company actually began a twice-weekly mail service in September Each service crossed more than 2, miles from San Francisco.

By there were forty-two coach routes throughout the country, linking most major cities and carrying both stagecoaches and mail coaches. The Regency period saw great improvements in coach design and road construction, leading to greater speed and comfort for passengers.

For example, in it took around 2 days to travel from Cambridge to. Carriage builder J. Stephens Abbot and master wheelwright Lewis Downing built the famed stagecoaches of Wells Fargo & Co. The curved frame of the body gave it strength, and perhaps a little extra elbow room.

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The cost of carriage by the waggon was very high; 40s. a ton would have been charged for the carriage of goods between Manchester and Liverpool, though they could be sent by water for 12s.

"A traveller on foot in this country" says Pastor Moritz "seems to be considered a sort of wild man or an out-of-the-way being, who is stared at, pitied. Robbery Reward Nreward Poster Issued By Wells Fargo & Co After A Stagecoach Robbery In California Poster Issued 27 July Poster Print by (18 x 24).

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