The Brighton road : the classic highway to the south . cellenceof this as fatal to the production of those qualitiesthat went to make an historic name. This road hadbecome perhaps the most nearly perfect, andcertainly the most fashionable, of all. With the introduction of this sporting andirresponsible element, racing between rival coaches—-and not the mere conveying of passengers—becamethe real interest of the coachmen, and proprietorswere obliged to issue notices to assure the timid thatthis form of rivalry would be discouraged. A slowcoach, the Life Preserver, was even put on the roadto win
The Brighton road : the classic highway to the south . cellenceof this as fatal to the production of those qualitiesthat went to make an historic name. This road hadbecome perhaps the most nearly perfect, andcertainly the most fashionable, of all. With the introduction of this sporting andirresponsible element, racing between rival coaches—-and not the mere conveying of passengers—becamethe real interest of the coachmen, and proprietorswere obliged to issue notices to assure the timid thatthis form of rivalry would be discouraged. A slowcoach, the Life Preserver, was even put on the roadto win the support of old ladies and the timid, who, asthe record of accidents tells us, did well to be accidents would happen to fast and slow Coburg was upset at Cuckfield in August, of the passengers were so much injured that theycould not proceed, and one died the following dayat the Kings Head. The Coburg was anold-fashioned coach, heavy, clumsy, and slow,carrying six passengers inside and twelve outside. - .. : :.
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