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Stagecoach South, Hampshire Bus
A stagecoach (also: stage coach, stage, road coach, ) is a four-wheeled public transport coach (carriage), coach used to carry paying passengers and light packages on journeys long enough to need a change of horses. It is strongly sprung and generally drawn by four-in-hand (carriage), four horses although some versions are drawn by six horses. Commonly used before History of rail transport, steam-powered rail transport was available, a stagecoach made long scheduled trips using Stage station, stage stations or posts where the stagecoach's horses would be replaced by fresh horses. The business of running stagecoaches or the act of journeying in them was known as staging. Some familiar images of the stagecoach are that of a mail coach, Royal Mail coach passing through a Turnpike trust, turnpike gate, a Dickensian passenger coach covered in snow pulling up at a coaching inn, a highwayman demanding a coach to "stand and deliver" and a Wells Fargo stagecoach arriving at or leaving an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Concord Stagecoach
The Concord coach was an American horse-drawn Coach (carriage), coach, often used as stagecoaches, mailcoaches, and hotel coaches. The term was first used for the coaches built by coach-builder J. Stephen Abbot and wheelwright Lewis Downing of the Abbot-Downing Company in Concord, New Hampshire, but later to be sometimes used generically. Like their predecessors, the Concords employed a style of suspension and construction particularly suited to North America's early 19th century roads. Leather thoroughbraces suspend passengers who are in constant motion while the coach is moving. The swaying is accepted by passengers for the shock absorbing action of the leather straps and for the way the special motion eases the coach over very rough patches of roadway. This suspension, which was developed by :de:Philip de Chiese, Philip de Chiese in the 17th century, was long replaced by steel Leaf spring, springs in England. The coaches developed out of earlier models, such as th“melon-shap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
