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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] |
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| 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] |