The Brighton road : the classic highway to the south . nter, received betweenthem a sum of £60,000 per annum, and the total sumexpended in fares upon coaching on this road wastaken as amounting to £ per annum. Thatleaves the very respectable amount of £ for theseasons takings of the butterflies. An accident happened to the Alert on October9th, 1829, when the coach was taking up passengersat Brighton. The horses ran away, and dashed thecoach and themselves into an area sixteen feet coach was battered almost to pieces, and onelady was seriously injured. The horses escapedun
The Brighton road : the classic highway to the south . nter, received betweenthem a sum of £60,000 per annum, and the total sumexpended in fares upon coaching on this road wastaken as amounting to £ per annum. Thatleaves the very respectable amount of £ for theseasons takings of the butterflies. An accident happened to the Alert on October9th, 1829, when the coach was taking up passengersat Brighton. The horses ran away, and dashed thecoach and themselves into an area sixteen feet coach was battered almost to pieces, and onelady was seriously injured. The horses escapedunhurt. In 1832, August 25th, the Brighton Mail wasupset near Reigate, the coachman being killed. This was the era of those early motor-cars, the steam-carriages, which, in spite of their clumsy constructionand appalling ugliness, arrived very nearly to acommercial success. Many inventors were engagedfrom 1823 to 1838 upon this subject, Walter Hancock,in particular, began in 1824, and in 1828 proposed aservice of his land-steamers between London and. STEAM CARRIAGES 37 Brighton, but did not actually appear upon this roadwith his Infant until November, 1832. Thecontrivance performed the double journey with somedifficulty and in slower time than the coaches ; butHancock on that eventful day confidently declaredthat he was perfecting a newer machine by which heexpected to run down in three and a half hours. Henever achieved so much, but in October. 1833, his Autopsy, which had been successfully running as anomnibus between Paddington and Stratford, wentfrom the works at Stratford to Brighton in eight anda half hours, of which three hours were taken up by ahalt on the road. Xo artist has preserved a view of this event for us,but a print may still be met with depicting the startof Sir Charles Dances steam-carriage from WellingtonStreet, Strand, for Brighton on some eventful morningof that same year. A prison-van is, by comparisonwith this fearsome object, a thing of beauty ; but in
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