| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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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