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" However incredible it may appear, this coach will actually (barring accidents) arrive in London in four days and a half after leaving Manchester... "
A picture of Manchester - Page 255
by Joseph Aston - 1826
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The Manchester Guide: A Brief Historical Description of the Towns of ...

Joseph Aston - Manchester (England) - 1804 - 320 pages
...the year 1754, a Flying Coach was advertized, and promised in the following words, that " How" ever incredible it may appear, this coach will " actually...in London, " in four days and a half, after leaving Man " Chester"!! The mail coaches now constantly travel that distance in thirty hours ; and on the...
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The Manchester guide, a brief historical description of Manchester & Salford ...

Joseph Aston - 1804 - 310 pages
...promised in the following words, that " How-^ *' ever incredible it may appear, this coach will fe actually (barring accidents) arrive in London, *' in four days and a half, after leaving Man(< Chester" !! The mail coaches now constantly travel that distance in thirty hours ; and on the...
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The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th], Volume 3, Part 2

1807 - 588 pages
...destination. In the year 1754, a fying coach was advertised, and promised, in the following words, that " However incredible it may appear, this coach...in four days and a half after leaving Manchester." This exploit is now regularly performed by the mail coaches in about thirty hours ; and the same distance...
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The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - Anecdotes - 1832 - 846 pages
...miles an hour ! The proprietors, at the commencement, issued the following remarkable prospectus : ' However incredible it may appear, this coach will...in four days and a half after leaving Manchester.' Three years afterwards, the Liverpool merchants established another of these ' flying machines on steel...
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The Traveller's miscellany and magazine of entertainment

1847 - 742 pages
...greatness of the man-el may be inferred from the positive and assuring tone of the announcement— 'However incredible it may appear, this coach will...London in four days and a half after leaving Manchester !' It is stated by Aston, in his " Picture of Manchester," that the news of the battle of Waterloo...
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The Christian reformer; or, Unitarian magazine and review [ed. by ..., Volume 4

Robert Aspland - 1848 - 788 pages
...flying coach was advertised to run between Manchester and London, and promised, in the following words, that, "however incredible it may appear, this coach...London in four days and a half after leaving Manchester !" The distance is now daily accomplished in less than six hours.— Ed. CR ness and public spirit...
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Lives of the Engineers: With an Account of Their Principal Works, Volume 1

Samuel Smiles - Engineers - 1861 - 536 pages
...classed with projectors of the Munchausen kind, they heralded their enterprise with this statement : " However incredible it may appear, this coach will...London in four days and a half after leaving Manchester ! " Fast coaches were also established on other of the northern roads, though not with very extraordinary...
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Lives of the Engineers, with an Account of Their Principal Works ..., Volume 1

Samuel Smiles - Bridges - 1861 - 532 pages
...enterprise with this statement : " However incredible it may appear, this coach will actually (hairing accidents) arrive in London in four days and a half after leaving Manchester ! " Fast coaches were also established on other of the northern roads, though not with very extraordinary...
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Chambers's Edinburgh journal, conducted by W. Chambers ..., Volume 17

Chambers's journal - 1862 - 432 pages
...following prospectus : ' However incredible it may appear, this coach will actually (barring accidente) arrive in London in four days and a half after leaving Manchester.' It is no wonder that about this time a Fly received its name on account of its supposed rapid travelling....
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The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - Anecdotes - 1864 - 858 pages
...miles an hour ! The proprietors, at the commencement, issued the following remarkable prospectus : ' However incredible it may appear, this coach will...in four days and a half after leaving Manchester.' Three years afterwards, the Liverpool merchants established another of these ' flying machines on steel...
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