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The "Coach" certainly has an ancient history!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StagecoachI wonder if the New Hampshire "Stage Coach" idea/design was brought over from England?
The American Concord Stage Coach:
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"Beginning in the 18th century crude wagons began to be used to carry passengers between cities and towns, first within New England in 1744, then between New York and Philadelphia in 1756. Travel time was reduced on this later run from three days to two in 1766 with an improved coach called the Flying Machine. The first mail coaches appeared in the later 18th century carrying passengers and the mails, replacing the earlier post riders on the main roads. Coachmen carried letters, packages and money, often transacting business or delivering messages for their customers. By 1829 Boston was the hub of 77 stagecoach lines; by 1832 there were 106.
Preserved Concord stagecoach in Wells Fargo livery.
The first Concord stagecoach was built in 1827. Abbot Downing Company employed leather strap braces under their stagecoaches which gave a swinging motion instead of the jolting up and down of a spring suspension. The company manufactured over forty different types of carriages and wagons at the wagon factory in Concord, New Hampshire. Concord stagecoaches were built so solidly it became known they didn't break down but just wore out.
The Concord stagecoach sold throughout South America, Australia, and Africa. Over 700 Concord stagecoaches were built by the original Abbot Downing Company before it disbanded in 1847.[citation needed] The company was still building coaches, wagons, and carriages according to their business card of 1898.[citation needed][15] In his 1861 book Roughing It, Mark Twain described the Concord stage's ride as like "a cradle on wheels"."
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Wells Fargo..Wyatt Erp...Hollywood...and all that...
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Paul...Staging a comeback...
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