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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
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So
early
as
1754,
a
company
of
merchants
in
Manchester
started
a
new
vehicle,
called
the
"Flying
Coach,"
which
seems
to
have
owed
its
designation
to
the
fact
that
the
proprietors
contemplated
an
acceleration
in
the
speed
of
the
new
conveyance
to
four
or
five
miles
an
hour.
It
started
with
the
following
remarkable
prospectus:--"However
incredible
it
may
appear,
this
coach
will
actually
(barring
accidents)
arrive
in
London
in
four
days
and
a
half
after
leaving
Manchester."
In
the
same
year
a
new
coach
was
brought
out
in
Edinburgh,
but
the
speed
at
which
it
travelled
was
no
improvement
on
the
old
rate.
It
was
of
better
appearance,
however;
and
the
announcement
heralding
its
introduction
to
the
Edinburgh
public
sought
for
it
general
support
on
the
ground
of
the
extra
comfort
it
would
offer
to
travellers.
"The
Edinburgh
stage-coach,"
says
the
prospectus,
"for
the
better
accommodation
of
passengers,
will
be
altered
to
a
new
genteel
two-end
glass
machine,
hung
on
steel
springs,
exceedingly
light
and
easy,
to
go
(to
London)
in
ten
days
in
summer
and
twelve
in
winter."[52]
Three
years
afterwards,
the
Liverpool
merchants
established
another
"flying
machine
on
steel
springs,"
which
was
designed
to,
and
which
really
did,
eclipse
the
Manchester
one
in
the
matter
of
speed.[53]
Three
days
only
were
allowed
for
the
journey
between
Liverpool
and
London.
Sheffield
and
Leeds
followed
with
their
respective
"fly-coaches,"
and
by
the
year
1784
they
had
not
only
become
quite
common,
but
most
of
them
had
acquired
the
respectable
velocity
of
eight
miles
an
hour.
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