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Introduction[1]
First Use of Wheeled Vehicles[2]
Badness of Early Roads[3]
Saxon Vehicles and Horse Litters[4]
Continental Carriages in the 13th and 14th Centuries[8]
Conveyances in Henry VI.’s Time[11]
“Chariots” First Used on Great Occasions[12]
First Use of Carriages: called Coaches[13]
Coaches in France[15]
Coaches First Used by Queen Elizabeth[16]
Duke of Brunswick, 1588, Forbids Use of Coaches[20]
The Stage Waggon[21]
The Introduction of Springs[23]
Steel Springs Introduced[24]
The First Hackney Coaches[26]
Excessive Number of Coaches in London[28]
Hackney Carriages and the Thames Watermen[30]
Hackney Carriages a Nuisance in London[32]
Licensed Hackney Carriages[33]
Coaches with “Boots”[35]
Carriages in Hyde Park[38]
Coach and Cart Racing[40]
Regulations for Hackney Carriages[41]
Pepys on Carriages[43]
Glass Windows in Carriages[45]
Improvements in Carriages [47]
Pepys’ Private Carriage[50]
Carriage Painting in Pepys’ Day[52]
The First Stage Coaches[54]
Objections Raised to Stage Coaches [56]
Seventeenth Century High Roads[62]
Hackney Cabs as a Source of Revenue[66]
Manners of the Cabman[69]
Cab-driving a Lucrative Occupation [70]
Coaches and Roads in Queen Anne’s Time[73]
Coaching in George I.’s and II.’s Reigns[74]
Dean Swift on Coaches and Drivers[76]
Roads in the 18th Century[78]
Speed of the 18th Century Stage Coach[80]
The Application of Springs[84]
Outside Passengers[87]
Roads in George III.’s Time[88]
Improvements in Stage Coaches[90]
The Mail Coach[91]
Regulations for Mail and Stage Coaches[94]
Mail Coach Parade on the King’s Birthday[95]
The Mail Coachman and Guard[97]
“The Road” in Winter[100]
Passenger Fares[102]
Difference Between Stage and Mail Coach[102]
The “Golden Age” of Coaching[104]
Fast Coaches[106]
Heavy Taxation of Coaches[111]
Early Cabs[112]
Private and Stage Coaches, 1750-1830[116]
Varieties of Carriage [120]