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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... "
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Страница 156
1867
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The Manchester Guide: A Brief Historical Description of the Towns of ...

Joseph Aston - 1804 - 320 страница
...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 страница
...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], Том 3,Део 2

1807 - 588 страница
...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 Connection ..., Том 2

Robert Chambers - 1832 - 846 страница
...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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Littell's Living Age, Том 95

1867 - 854 страница
...passengers from their town to London as early as' 1 754 ; and they gave out, by public advertismemt, before the enterprise began, that " however incredible...was ever fulfilled. Still the impulse was given from both quarters, and i'ts rebound extended to many others. Thus we find that, in 1766, John Scott, afterwards...
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The Christian reformer; or, Unitarian magazine and review [ed. by R ..., Том 4

Robert Aspland - 1848 - 788 страница
...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 voL. rv. 3s ness and public...
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Lives of the Engineers, with an Account of Their Principal Works ..., Том 1

Samuel Smiles - 1861 - 532 страница
...classed with projectors of the Mimcliausen 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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Chambers's Edinburgh journal, conducted by W. Chambers. [Continued ..., Том 17

Chambers's journal - 1862 - 432 страница
...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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Her Majesty's Mails: An Historical and Descriptive Account of the British ...

William Lewins - 1864 - 402 страница
...on the trunk line of mail conveyance into Scotland, with the following remarkable prospectus : — " However incredible it may appear, this coach will...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...
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Three Lectures on Roads and Road Makers ...

Henry Alexander Glass - 1864 - 134 страница
...for pleasure. In 1754 the town of Manchester advertised a flying coach, stating in their notice, " that, however incredible it may appear, this coach...in four days and a half after leaving Manchester." The late Lord Chancellor wrote : — "When I B 2 20 THE PLEASURES OF TRAVEL. first reached London (this...
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