John Johnson Collection: pre-1960 ephemera
Coaches
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Summary Index
Box 1
Coaching Bills, Cards etc.,
English.
Misc.
Within London
London to the Provinces, arranged by Provincial Town
Provincial: non-London
Foreign
Box 2
Cartoons and Illustrations general
English
The Mail Coach
Inns and Hotels
Views, arranged by place
London
Provincial
Foreign
Misc. Prints
Scraps
Christmas and New Year Cards
Music Titles
Coaching Prints from the R.B. Wilson
Collection
Christmas Cards from the R.B. Wilson Collection
Postcards from the R.B. Wilson Collection
Photograph from the R.B. Wilson Collection
Prospectuses and Announcements from the R.B. Wilson Collection
Article from the R.B. Wilson Collection
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Box 3
Coaches and Diligences
Illustrations, foreign
Tickets
English and Scottish
Foreign
Bills and Acts of Parliament
Miscellaneous Documents
Manuscripts
Box 4
Excursions
By Coach and Horses
London
Provincial
Lake District
Scotland
Wales
Jersey
Brakes
Charabancs
Motor Coaches
Regular Routes, arranged by company
Excursions:
London
Provincial
Irish
Scottish
Foreign
Articles misc.
Box 5
Timetable Booklets
General
London
Provincial
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Isle of Wight
Foreign
Detailed Index
Box 1
Coaching Bills, Cards etc. English
Superior Travelling to London in Nine Hours by the Royal Telegraph
Take Notice John Eames & Co... notice regarding liability for property
Within London
Clapton to the Flower Pot, Bishopsgate Street, London. T Bryan.
Clapton and Hackney Stages. Mr Tennet, T. Bryan
Dorchester Hotel to Hampton Court. The Perseverance, 1939.
4 newscuttings, mounted.
Willoughby’s Invalid Carriage, Oxford Street.
London to the Provinces, arranged by provincial town
Ashington: G. Welling. n.d.
Aylesbury: John Honor Parker, 1839
Banbury, Buckingham and Winslow Machine. Coach cards for 1776 & 1779.
Reproductions
Bath Cranford Bridge. London to Bath. London to Oxford.
Bath, Bristol and Exeter to London. Hooper & Barnett.
Birmingham Stage Coach, Nicholas Rothwell, 1731. Facsimile. 2 copies
Birmingham?: Dadley and Palmer. Advertising setting up of a hotel in Birmingham with
distances to London thro' Coventry
Birmingham: Newscutting. Birmingham Travelling. (at various dates).
Brighton: Newman & c. Newscuttings: Stubbs and Hancock
Bristol: see Bath above.
Buckingham: see Banbury above
Buxton see under St. Albans below.
Canterbury: Samuel Wright.
Cheltenham:
Royal Hotel Coach Office. Thomas Haines Jun. & Co. (includes provincial towns).
Plough Hotel Coach Office. James Neyler & Co.
Chester: see under St Albans.
Dorking: Perseverance. Hotel Metropole.
Dover: Chitty, Back, Gilbert & Co., Proprietors.
Dover Mail: C. Elvey, Shakspear Hotel, n.d. see also under Paris.
Exeter: London & Exeter Post Coach. J. Land, J. Hayes, T. Brown, H. Rivers, J. Payne
see also Bath above
Falmouth: The Great Post Road from London to Falmouth see also Provincial: nonLondon
Gloucester: Phillpotts Bell Inn, Gloucester (London, Bristol & Bath Coach Office) n.d.
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Hastings: The British Roadster No. 25 ..being a map and description of the road from
London to Hastings.
Leeds: Royal Union Coaches, n.d. see also under St Albans.
Liverpool: newscutting. The Royal Mail Coach, (1788) see also under St Albans
Manchester:
London and Manchester Estafette. William Chaplin, London, A. Packwood,
Coventry, T. Waddell, Birmingham, R. Evans, Wolverhampton, Lacy & Allen,
Manchester, 1836
see also St. Albans
Marlborough: Distances from Marlborough to London, to Bath through Chippenham, to
Bath through Devizes, to Bristol.
Newcastle: Newscutting: The Old Newcastle Broad-Wheel Stage-Waggon, 1756.
Penrith: Route from Foster's Hotel, Penrith to London. Travellers Posting Card.
St. Albans: White Hart Inn. Isaac Newton Hayward. Verso gives details of the Road
from London to Manchester, Buxton and Leeds. London to Chester and Liverpool, Stone
to Liverpool.
Southampton: Coach-and-Horses Inn. London, Poole, Lymington, Oxford, Salisbury,
Bath and Bristol, Portsmouth, Gosport, Exeter and Plymouth.
Stamford: Six o' clock in the morning from London. The Regent Coach, 1822 (Facsimile
only).
Weymouth: The Union Coach Messrs. Scott, Gould, Miles, Wignal, Mountain, and Co.
Nov 18, 1822.
Winslow: see Banbury above
York:
York Four-Days Stage Coach. 12.4.1706 (5 Facsimiles)
Card of the Road from York to London. Wm. Thomson. Jan 15. 1816.
The Highflyer, n.d.
Provincial: non-London
Bath:
White-Hart Hotel, Bath. 1842.
see also Falmouth
see also Gloucester below
see also Holyhead below
see also Southampton under London above
Bedford: C. Higgin's Coach Office.
Birmingham:
see Manchester below
see also under Stafford below
Brighton :
The Rocket, the new fast safe coach to Brighton
see also under Windsor below
Bristol:
see Southampton under London above
see also Holyhead below
Buxton: see also under Stafford below
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Chester: see under Stafford below
Derry: Mail Coach Office. 1820s
Exeter: see Southampton under London above
Falmouth:
The Great Post Road from Falmouth to Bath
Falmouth to Bristol on verso. 18th century
see also above Falmouth-London
Gloucester:
see above: Phillpotts Bell Inn. Mileage given from Gloucester to MilfordHaven, Bath, Holy Head and London.
Gosport: see Southampton under London above
Grantham: The Old Established Line of Posting (see verso)
Holyhead:
Holyhead, Bristol, Bath. Haynes and Wall, Wenlock R. Dukes, Bridgnorth; J.
Woodward, Kidderminster, T. Garmston, Worcester., J. Pain & Co., Bristol. 18th
century
see also under Gloucester above
Liverpool:
The British Roadster. No. 16. From Birmingham, through Walsall, Newport and Chester.
(COVER ONLY)
see also under Stafford below
Lymington: see Southampton under London above
Lynton and Mindhead: (links with London Train). T. Baker, n.d.
Manchester:
to Birmingham. Newscutting The Royal Traveller. John Cork & Co., from the
Castle Hotel, Newcastle-under-Lyme. n.d.
see also under Stafford below
Marlborough: see above under London
Matlock: see under Stafford below
Milford Haven see under Gloucester above
Newcastle-under-Lyme: see Manchester above
Oxford: see Southampton under London above
Poole: see Southampton under London above
Portsmouth: see Southampton under London above
Salisbury: see Southampton under London above
Sheffield: Angel Inn. Resolutions passed [regarding routes], 23.8.1834
Shrewsbury: see under Stafford below
Stafford:
William Picken, George Hotel. Mileage to Liverpool, Manchester, Chester,
Buxton, Matlock, Worcester, Birmingham, Shrewsbury.
Stow: The Wonder Coach. Messrs. Gillett and Green
Teignmouth: Extracted from Watering Places
Windermere:
Rigg's Royal Mail Coaches to and from Windermere, Ambleside, Grasmere,
Keswick.
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August 1885
August 1905
see also under Excursions
Windsor: Windsor and Brighton Coach. Richard Millis, Thomas Chennell & Co. n.d.
Worcester: see under Stafford
Channel Islands: Red Rover Coach Office. Pier St Helier's, Jersey
Foreign:
Brussels to Waterloo and Mont-St Jean: Field of Waterloo
France
Muhlberque, Hotel du Nord, Boulogne-sur-Mer. Route de Boulogne a Paris.
Boulogne to Paris. The Union E. Sanders and Co. On reverse of The Union Safe Coaches.
Dover to London
Calais, Hotel Quillacq. Routes de Calais a Paris, n.d.
Paris:
Messageries Royales. New English Diligences to Paris, 1817?
Phenix: London to Paris
Entreprise des Gondoles Parisiennes
Eugene Naas: Cammionage, Expeditions, Commissions, Transit & Entrepot
(Trade card)
Duval. At the Hotel du nom de Jesus. Trade card.
Germany
Diligences, Post and Mail Coaches &c. 1861
J.N.A. Volker. Personen-Wagen zwischen Hamburg, Altona und Kiel.
Hotel de Bellevue. M Hoche. Coblenz
Roeder & Kuhner Hotel du Cigne Blanc. Francfort s/M. Including Distances de Francfort
sure le Mein.
Frederic Adalbert Sarg. Marchand en Vins et Proprietaire de l'Hotel de Russie, Francfort
s/M. Fold-out leaflet, showing "Routes et Distances de Francfort s/M"
Trade Card. "Depart et Arrivee des diligences de l'administration des postes de S.A. le
Prince de Turn et Taxis a l'hotel des trois couronnes a Mayence"
Italy
Bureau de Correspondence de Jph. Pandolfo Parete, Rome
"Entreprise privilegiee de la Diligence de Rome a Naples par Ceprano." Joseph Ranucci
Entrepreneur
Box 2
Coaches: Cartoons and Illustrations general. English.
The Mail Coach
General
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Unidentified. The Mail Coach,
Unidentified. Mail Just in Time, no. 12
Post Boys Returning. J. Sturgess del.et lith. Hanhart imp.
Royal Mail Coach Painted by James Pollard. Engraved by R. Havell.
2 copies:
1. reproduction from The Connoisseur July 1907
2. unattributed reproduction
Mail Coach in a Flood. Painted by James Pollard. Engraved by F. Rosenbourg.
2 copies:
1. Reproduction from The Connoisseur June 1904
2. unattributed reproduction
Unsigned Painting of Royal Mail Coaches passing at night, with article Coaches at Night.
Country Life, Jan. 10, 1954
Illustrations of Specific Mail Coaches
Bath Royal Mail
Behind Time.
The Royal Mail
London to Birmingham. A signed painting by Charles Cooper Henderson c.1842.
Reproduced in The Apollo, June 1953
The Birmingham Mail
Near Aylesbury, the Guard Banbury proceeding with the Bags. Drawn by H. Alken.
Engraved by R.Havell.
2 copies:
1. Reproduced in The Connoisseur January 1907
2. Unattributed reproduction
The Brighton Mail
On Sunday December 25 1836. Drawn by H. Alken, Pubd. by R. Havell.
2 copies:
1. Reproduced in The Connoisseur Jan 1900
2. Unattributed reproduction
The Devonport Mail
Near Amesbury going post through an avalanche of snow. Drawn by H. Alken Engraved
by R. Havell.
2 copies:
1. Reproduced in The Connoisseur, December 1907
2. Unattributed reproduction
The Lazy Horse-Keeper [shows the Dover to London Royal Mail]
Publ. by A. Park, no.68
The Old London-Falmouth
Stage Coach and article The Retired Stage Coach. Country Life, April 16 1953
The Holyhead and Chester Mails
At Heckley Hill, near Dunstable. Drawn by H. Alken. Engraved by R. Havell. Feb 6th
1837. Reproduction.
Going A-Head [Shows the Leeds Royal Mail]
The Liverpool Mail
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Near St Albans. Drawn by H. Alken. Engraved by R. Havell.
2 copies:
1. Reproduced in The Connoisseur March 1908
2. Unattributed reproduction
The Bruce Passing the Peveril Coach and Manchester Mail
Drawn by H. Alken. Engraved by R. Havell. Reproduction.
Changing Horses. [shows the York Royal Mail]
Inns and Hotels
Scenes on the Road in the Old Coaching Days, II. On the Highgate Road - The Woodman.
Country Inn Yard
The Blenheim leaving The Star Hotel, Oxford. Publ. 1.1. 1831 by G. Havell, Yarnton,
near Oxford. Photographic reproduction.
The Royal Mail at the Bell Inn. A Japanned Picture Tray painted in the Wolverhampton
Studio of Robert Noyes. Reproduction
Coaches: Views, arranged by place
London
London. Roadsters, New London Union Coach. Aquatint by and after Charles Hunt.
Reproduced in The Antique Collector. March 1938
Mare St. Hackney in 1840 looking towards the Church
A View of Highgate from Upper Holloway
Sunday View on Highgate Hill/ Published 1.10.1785
Islington Green in 1750
Ludgate Hill, from Fleet Street. Drawn by Thomas H. Shepherd. Engraved by T. Barber.
Jones & Co., Temple of the Muses, 10.4.1830.
[Piccadilly]
Part of West Side of Regent Street. Drawn by Thomas Shepherd. Engraved by W.
Watkins. Jones & Co., Temple of the Muses, 21.12.1828.
The Old Bull & Mouth Inn St. Martin-le –Grand (now pulled down). Drawn by Tho. H.
Shepherd. Engraved by W. Watkins. Jones & Co., Temple of the Muses, London 1881.
Entrance to London by the Obelisk in the Surrey Road. Drawn by Scnebbelie &
engraved by Sparrow. For Dr. Hughson's Description of London. Published I. Stratford,
9.6.1810.
St Paul's Cathedral (West Front). Engraved by J. Burnett from a drawing by F. Nash for
The Beauties of England & Wales. 1.4.1809.
Provincial
Bath
View near Bath. Drawn by T. Malton, engraved by S. Middiman. Publ. by S. Middiman
London. 21.1. 1785.
Brighton
Annotation in MSS. "Sir Vincent Cotton Bt. Driver of the Brighton Coach and did not
omit to ask the passengers for his fee as coachman. These the old steward of the Garrick
Club informed me he usually threw on the club table to pay the club fine."
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Another note in MSS: Note: the above is one of a rare set of 'Extra Illustrations to the
Memoirs of Harriet Wilson by Findlay’. The lady on the box is Harriet.
Brighton. A Trip to Brighton - the Marine Parade. Sir John Dean Paul
Stage Coach. [on side of coach. Comet. Brighton London] Painted by J. Pollard. London.
Publ. by Jon. Watson. London 1.11.1822.
2 copies:
1.Reproduced in The Connoisseur, June 1908
2. Unattributed reproduction
Bury
Putting To. Booking Office. [on side of coach. Bury]
Chester
Our Friend in Red Keeps his Horn Going [on side of coach Chester] R. Alken Pinx.
Hanhart Chromo Lith
Dover
Stage Waggon.
Exeter
A Scene Once Common - Now Too Scarce. C. Henderson [on side of coach – Exeter
Gretna Green. -.H. Nutter del. B. Winkles sculp.
Guildford
Illustration The Guildford to London Coach by Francis Sartorius, 1775. Reproduced in A
Surrey Manor House written and illustrated by Leonard Willoughby. Part II. The
Connoisseur January 1910.
Loch Lomond
Returning from a Trip to Loch Lomond. M.E. Engraved by G. Hunt.
Malvern Wells
Published by Lewis & Co. . J.C. Greaves & Son, Sculpts. Birmingham.
Newport Pagnell
Engraved by T Tegg from an original by J. Walker. Publ. by J. Walker, London. Feb.
1798. With a description of the plate.
Oxford
The Oxford and Opposition Coaches. W. Flavell Pinxt.
2 copies:
1. Reproduced in The Connoisseur, November 1906.
2. Unattributed reproduction.
Rochester
On the Rochester Coach by Frank Reynolds. From "Mr Pickwick". Unattributed
reproduction.
Southampton
The Red Rover Coach on its recent journey from London to Southampton and Back.
Reproduced in ‘The Red Rover Runs Again’ Country Life 22.8.1952.
Thorncroft
Seat of A. Colvin Esq. T. Allom. J Starling.
Tunbridge
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Springing 'em. R. Ackermann's Coaching Scraps. W. J. Shayer pinx., J. Harris sculp. Publ.
by Rudolph Ackermann [Tunbridge on side of coach].
Watford Hertfordshire
Drawn & Engraved for Dugdales England & Wales Delineated.
Foreign
A Boulogne and Amiens Diligence. The Pictorial Times, 1846.
Coaches in Elections
The Last Hour of a Contested Election for M.P. Jas. Pollard. Delt. R. Havell Fect.
2 copies:
1. Reproduced in The Connoisseur Nov. 1907
2. Unattributed reproduction
The Newly Elected M.P. on his Way to the House of Commons, 1835. Unattributed
reproduction.
Misc Prints
The Coach Horse
Travelling in England or a Peep from the White horse Cellar. G. Cruikshank fec. Pub.
12.8.1819 by G. Humphrey.
Phaeton No. 4. -Sketches by C.C. Henderson:
What Drunk Again you Lazy Old Beggar!. H. Alken Pinxt. M.& N. Hanhart Imp.
A Stickey Lot, but we Stamp the foot board & arrive at the top of Penman Maur. H.
Alken Pinxt. Hanhart Chromo Lith.
Four in Hand. J. Pollard. Engraved by J. Glendah. Reproduced in The Connoisseur, Feb.
1907
Coach and Six (from a water colour drawing by T. Rowlandson)
2 copies:
1. Reproduced in The Connoisseur, Oct. 1907
2. Unattributed reproduction
Approach to Christmas. Painted by James Pollard. Engraved by George Hunt.
Reproduced in The Connoisseur, Jan. 1908
Ten Minutes to Spare
Ten Minutes Behind
Racing
Full Swing
Sunrise. Every Appearance of Sharp Weather. H. Alken Pinxt. Hanhart Chromo Lith
Untitled. Pubd. by Thos. McLean. 1.8.1835
Sheet of various prints:
A Trip to Brighton - the Marine Parade. Sir John Dean Paul
The Birmingham Mail fast in the Snow, 1836. The Guard goes on to London with the
Letter-Bags. J. Pollard
The Louth Mail Snowed up 1836. The Letter-Bags are sent on in a Post Chaise and Four.
J. Pollard.
The Windsor Coach. W. Heath.
Lord Barrymore's Four in Hand. T. Rowlandson
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The Comfort of being Driven Like a Gentleman. H. Alken
Sheet of various French prints.
The Trewinnard Coach. County Museum and Art Gallery, Truro. Postcards (2 copies)
An Eighteenth-Century Model of a stage-coach from Children's Toys Throughout the
Ages. Illustration from The Times Literary Supplement. 26.6.1953.
Unidentified plates, including Edmund Fry, London (no. 155), 2 other coaching scenes
(nos. 157, 158).
Unidentified coaching scenes
Prospectus
A Keepsake for the Dragsman: Fores's Coaching Recollections
Scraps
Christmas Cards and New Year Cards
The Start.
Meet of Coaching Club
Return from the Meet
Meet of Four in Hand Club
[The Dover Coach]
The Mail Coach Engraved by G. Hunt after Henry Alken.
The Mail Coach Changing Horses at the Old White Lion, Finchley. Engraved by R.G.
Reade after James Pollard (1825)
Music Titles
The Very Last Polka by Francois Bernard. Publ. by Duff & Hodgson
Coachmen and Postillions: Cartoons and Illustrations
Untitled. Mr Bunbury del. J. Bretherton f. 10.1.1770
Postiglione Inglese H. Bunbury delin. Chas. Bretherton Junr. f. Publ. April 1772 by I.
Bretherton
Postiglione Germanico. H. Bunbury delin. Chas Bretherton junr. f. Publ. April 1772 by J
Bretherton
Bang Up. - Random or Tandom (print). Some Push Along with Four in Hand while
others drive at random (verse) Publ. by Laurie & Whittle. 4th April 1810
Alfred Crowquill's Sketches. Long Coachmen.Article with illustration. 1843.
Misc scraps and prints
Envelope containing coaching prints from the R.B. Wilson Collection
Coaching Scrap
Where to Sir? Unidentified print (modern?)
The End of Summer Tours (depicts coach of the London and North Western Railway
Ashton-under-Line, Lancashire. Harwood. Watkins. Pub. by Fisher,
Son & Co., London, 1832.
Warwick Birmingham coach. Unidentified print (reproduction)
Reproductions of Jas. Pollard:
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Through the Floods (engraved by S. Rosenbourg)
The Four-in-Hand Club, Hyde Park. (engraved by J. Harris)
The Edinburgh Express. (engraved by S. Rosenbourg)
The Mail Coach Changing Horses. (engraved by J. Harris)
Christmas Cards R.B. Wilson Collection
Including:
North Country Mails at the Peacock, Islington by James Pollard
The Four-in-Hand Club. Engraved by J. Harris after James Pollard, 1820
Coaching Recollections. The Devonport Mail in the great snowstorm, 1836. After J.
Pollard.
Bootham Bar, York in the nineties by David, Shepherd
The Brighton Day Mails. Painted by J. Shayer. Engraved by Chas. Hunt.
Waterloo Place.
The Norwich Coach. Cooper Henderson
The Travelling Chariot. (about 1815)
The Blenheim leaving the Star Hotel, Oxford
Stuck Fast (detail). Lithograph by C.C. Henderson
The Birmingham Post Passing Quinton Gate. 1842. W. Pringle
The Grand Tour from an oil painting by John Leigh Pemberton
Postcards R.B. Wilson Collection
The Birmingham Post Passing Quinton Gate, 1842
Stage Coach handbill, York. 12th April 1706.
Photograph, transcribed on verso; ‘Over the hills’
Prospectuses and Announcements R.B. Wilson Collection
Urban Studies (Edward Arnold)
John Baker New Books, April-September 1970. List 14.
Rowlandson's Drawings for a Post Chaise (Huntington Library Publications)
The Regency Road, the coaching prints of James Pollard, by N.C. Selway. Faber & Faber.
(9 copies)
Article R.B. Wilson Collection
Horses and Carriages by Jennifer Lang.
Box 3
Coaches and Diligences. Illustrations, Foreign
L'Inconvenient A.K. Leprince. Lith. Engelmann
Unidentified print. [Lith.] Englemann.
[title lacking] "Quand on n'a pas de memoire, il faut avoir des jambes!" Leprince. Lith.
Engelmann
[title lacking] Leprince. [Englemann]
Paris Diligence Drawn by I. Carr, Esq. Engraved and printed by T. Medland. Pub.
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19.4.1803 by J. Johnson
[untitled]
Parisienne Aubry. Lith de Delpech.
Tickets: English and Scottish
The Favourite and Helvellyn Coaches: Keswick to Grasmere, Ambleside etc.
Royal Mail Coach Office, Edinburgh
Tickets: Foreign
Belgium
Denmark
France
Germany
Italy
Spain
Switzerland
Bills and Acts of Parliament
Bills
A Bill to make further regulations relating to the licensing of Stage Coaches. 14 April
1826.
Acts
An Act for granting to His Majesty an additional Duty on Stage Coaches. 28th December
1796.
Anno Vicesimo Tertio. An Act for granting to His Majesty an additional duty upon Stage
Coaches, and other carriages therein mentioned.
An Act to Repeal certain Parts of several Acts of the Parliament of Ireland, so far as
relates to the limiting the Number of Persons to be carried by Stage Coaches or other
Carriages; for enacting other Limitations in lieu thereof; and for other Purposes relating
thereto. 24th May 1810.
An Act to repeal Three Acts, made in the Twenty-eighth, Thirtieth, and Forty-sixth Years
of His present Majesty, for limiting the Number of Persons to be carried on the Outside
of Stage Coaches or other Carriages, and to enact other Regulations for carrying the
Objects of the said Acts into Effect. 9th June 1810.
An Act to make further Regulations relating to the Licensing of Stage Coaches. 5th May
1826.
Miscellaneous Documents
Receipt for Post Horse Licence for Three Months. 1855.
Resolutions entered into by the High Sheriff and Grand-Jury relative to the Price of
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Posting. Pontefract, Yorkshire, 1796.
Manuscripts
Agreement for hire of a Landau and accessories, between Sir Charles Rich, Baronet of
Shirley House, Southampton and James Bushnell and Company, Coachmakers ... in the
Parish of St Mary-le-Bone, Middlesex
Bishop Percy of Dromore. List of Mileages from Easton [mount annotated "In the
handwriting of Bishop Percy of Dromore".
Manuscripts misc.
Telegraphic Despatch from the Coachman of the 3 O' clock Coach from Ryde to Ventnor.
Box 4
Excursions
By Coach and Horses
London.
International Tourist Association. Tours by Four-in-Hand
Coaches to Kew, Richmond, Hampton Court, Greenwich, Woolwich, Crystal Palace and
20 other celebrated places
Provincial
[Derby?] R. Butler's Popular Excursions by the ...stage coach Dorothy Vernon [to]
Haddon Hall & Chatsworth, Castleton, Dovedale, Ilfracombe. Copp's Coaching Trips
from Ilfracombe,1902
Lynton, Lynmouth & Barnstaple. Lake & Copp's 4 Coaches
Lake District
Excursions from Rigg's Windermere Hotel
Taylor's Lake District Stage Coaches.
Derwentwater Lake. Bassenthwaite Lake.
Excursions from Rigg's Windermere Hotel
Scotland
Dalmally, Invarary and Tarbet, (Geo. Buchanan) 1888.
Four-in-Hand Tourist Coaches. "Flying Scotsman" to Roslin, c.1887
Ireland
Cork, Bandon and South Coast Railway. The Prince of Wales Route. Glengarriff and The
Lakes of Kilarney (by rail and coach).
Wales
Picturesque Pwllheli for a week. 100 Miles of Coaching. 2 copies.
London and North Western Railway. Programme of Coach Tours around Snowdon. July,
August, September, 1889
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Jersey
Royal Paragon Special Sunday Excursions, Baudoux, 1886. (2 different)
Brakes
Ramsgate
W. Farley's Four Horse Brake, Defiance
To Sandwich and Deal. R.E. Hodgman's Brake Lily
To Sandwich and Deal. Geo. Grigg's Covered Brakes (2 different handbills)
Southend? By Brake to the Winter Gardens on Whitsun Monday]
Thanet. R.E. Hodgman's Pair Horse Brake
Tunbridge Wells
E. Card's Garden Seat Brakes
W. Waghorn's Original Garden-Seat Brakes 92 (2 copies)
Charabancs
Eastbourne: Chapman & Sons. Tours
Folkestone: Frank Funnell
Hove: Pullman Excursions
Ilfracombe: Copp's Coach and Motor Char-a-Banc Trips
Matlock: William Hand, Motor Char-a-Banc Proprietor
Oxford: Berkshire Downs Tour. The City of Oxford Motor Services Ltd.
Paignton: Comfy Cars Char-a-Banc de luxe
Ramsgate: The Pair-horse char-a-Banc. F.L. Drayson, Proprietor.
Somerset Tours, Limited.
Oban: MacDougall's Grand Circular Motor Char-a-Banc Tour No. 7, round Loch Awe
Motor Coaches
Regular routes, arranged by company.
Aldershot & District Traction Co. Ltd.. 1.6. 1937
Black & White, Red & White in association with Midland Red, Greyhound, United
Counties, Royal Blue.
London to all parts of South Wales. 14.5.1935-14.10.1935
East Kent Road Car Company Limited:
10.10.1937: Margate-Hastings
11.5.1940:
Ramsgate-London
Deal-London
Dover-London
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London & Coastal Motor Service. Daily Departures from London,
London Coastal Services. Coach Travel, Winter 1936-37, Spring 1939
Midland Red, Majestic, North Western Road Car Co. Ltd.
Day and Night Services between London and Manchester.
1.11.1938-2.4.1939
Midland Red: Evesham and Pershore Districts. National Emergency. Petrol Rationing.
9.39.
Malvern Local Services (Revised Time Table). 7.10.39
National Emergency. Petrol Rationing. Worcester and Evesham. 24.9.1939
Stourbridge, Kidderminster and Worcester. Revised service. 7.10.39 (2 copies)
Midland Red and Railways Joint Motor Services: Revised services;
Worcester, Pershore etc. 27.11.39
London & Birmingham. 1.1..38-2.4.39
Morning Star Motor Services. Weston-S-Mare, Bristol, Reading and London.
Red and White Services: Oxford to London, Birmingham and all parts of South Wales
and Forest of Dean. June 1929
Royal Blue Automobile Services: London-Bath-Bristol and Weston-Super-Mare: London,
Southampton, Bournemouth and Poole
Royal Blue. Greyhound. Joint Services. London, Reading, Bath, Bristol, Weston-SuperMare via Maidenhead, Newbury, Marlborough, Calne. 20.10.1932, (same route)
1.10.1933
Rural England Motor Coaches. To and From London and South Wales, n.d.
Samuelson's Saloon Coaches. Regular Daily Services between London, High Wycombe,
Oxford, Banbury, Shipston-on-Stour, Stratford-on-Avon, Warwick, Leamington Spa,
Coventry, Birmingham. Wolverhampton, Chester, Birkenhead, Liverpool.
Scottish Motor Traction Engine Co. Ltd. London to Edinburgh by S.M.T., n.d.
South London Coaches. Season 1926. Programme of Coastal Services.
South Midland Motor Services Ltd. To and from London, Slough, Maidenhead, Henley,
Oxford, Woodstock, Chipping Norton, Moreton in the March, Broadway, Evesham,
Pershore, Worcester. 11.6.1934. August 1937.
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South Midland Luxury Coaches. (Slough, Oxford, Worcester, route as above). n.d.
Southdown Motor Services Ltd. Express Coach Service between London and Brighton.
20.9.1936
London, Hindhead and Portsmouth, Southsea, Isle of Wight with connections to Hayling
Island 26.9.1938 until Easter 1939. (2 copies)
Southdown Motor Services Ltd. East Kent Road Car Co. Ltd.: South Coast Express
Service. 8.7.-17.9.1939
Standerwick Luxury Services: Fleetwood-Blackpool-London
Thames Valley Traction Company Limited. Reading to London, via Wokingham,
Bracknell, Ascot or Maidenhead, Slough. 8.5.1937. 14.5.1938
United Counties. Varsity Express Service. Easter 1939 programme between London,
High Wycombe, Oxford. 2.39 (2 copies)
United Counties London, Northampton, Leicester, Nottingham. 26.9.38 to 25.5.1939
United Orange Luxury Coach Services. London, Newcastle, Scotland. 1.10.1938
Varsity Pullman Coaches. Cambridge Timetable, n.d.
Western. London-Glasgow. Winter Service, n.d.
Yorkshire Services. London, Midlands, Yorkshire. 26.9.1938 until 29.6.1939 from
Yorkshire and 27.9.1938 until 30.6.1939 from London
Excursions
London
Cook's
G.W.R. Around the LONDON Wonder-Places by Automobile!
Orange Luxury Coaches
Viking Cruising & Tourist Co. Ltd. Fourth programme of Land Cruises
G.B. (Motor Tours) Ltd., London. The Derby
Provincial
Bath
Bristol Motor Coaches. Tours from Bath. April 1931
Birmingham
Midland Red Motor Coach Tour Folder
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Bognor Regis
Southdown Motor Services: Programme of Excursions
Bournemouth
Enterprise Motor Coaches. Letter-heading only.
Brighton
Southdown Motor Services. Programme of Excursions. Mounted with Bognor Regis
Downland Cars Limited
Folkestone
East Kent Road Car Company Limited. Folkestone to Canterbury, March 1937.
Attractive Country Drives and Motor Coach Tours, 1937.
Sandown, Isle of Wight
Colenutt's Excursions to, all parts of the Island by the famous 'Star' Yellow Motor
Coaches
Irish
Upton's Reliable Irish Tours Ltd.
Scottish
Caledonian Automobile Services Ltd. Weekly Motor Tours June-Sept. 1911
Foreign
Fourways Travel, Ltd. Preview of Continental Motor Coach Tours, 1954, with booking
form
Motor Coach Tours in the glorious Cape Peninsula. Charabancs Limited
Motor Tours Ltd., Nairobi. Throwing Light upon Motoring through Darkest Central
Africa
Coaching: Articles misc.
Box 5
Timetable Booklets
General
Cook, Thomas:
Motor Tours in Great Britain, Ireland and on the Continent, 1929
Motor Tours in Great Britain and Ireland, 1930
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Highways Guide Ltd.:
The Highways Guide, April 1929, Summer 1930
Popular Tours Issued Gratis by the editor of The Motor, 20.7.1926
Coach Travel with the Compliments of Shears Army & Navy Booking Offices
London
London Coastal Services. How to Reach Victoria Station. Route Map and Guide
G.W.R. Around the London Wonder-Places by Automobile! 10 copies
Provincial
Bath:
Bath Tramways Motor Co. Ltd. "Green Motor Coaches". Daily Tours, October
1930, April 1931, August 1933
Tours from Bath by "Bristol" Motor Coaches
East Kent Road Car Company
Express Services between Herne Bay... and London
East Surrey Traction Company Ltd. Official Timetable
Eastern Counties Omnibus Company Limited. Daily Express Coach Service between
London and ...Yarmouth
Lancia, Southampton. Advertising folder
Land Cruises by Motor Coach through Western England & Wales. 2 copies.
Royal Blue Motor Coach Guide
Scarborough. Cheap Outings from Scarborough Station by Rail or Road
Southdown Motor Coach Holiday Tours, 1931, 1932
Southern National:
Tours from Weymouth in association with the
Southern Railway
Motor Tours form Bideford & Barnstaple, Ilfracombe & Lynton
Thames Valley Traction Company Ltd. Official Timetable
Westcliffe Motor Services. Extended Tours through Britain, 1931
Isle of Wight
Nash's Motor Coach Tours
"Star" Yellow Motor Coaches (H.P. Colenutt Ltd)
Scotland
Aberdeen Corporation Tramways Tourist Guide
Scottish Motor Tours. No. 6, No. 7, No. 12, No. 13, No. 17.
Foreign
Glenton Motor Coach Holiday Tours, 1939, n.d.
America
Greyhound
Union Pacific Stages. World's First Fleet of Air-Conditioned Buses
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Austria
Motor Bus Services of the Austrian Postal Administration. Winter 1930-31
Czechoslovakia
Sight Seeing Tours in Praha
Germany
Reichsbahn Schnellautobus
Germany 1935. Escorted Motor Tours
Germany 1936. Escorted Motor Tours
Switzerland
The Swiss Alpine Postal Coaches
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