io2 ANNALS OF THE ROAD. 



Mr. May, Shenley to Daventry, 24 miles, in 1 hour 

 49 minutes. 



Mr. Garner, Daventry to Coventry, 1 9^ miles, in 

 1 hour 12 minutes ; Coventry to Birmingham, 1 ;| miles, 

 in 1 hour 15 minutes. 



The original ' Tally-ho ' performed the same distance 

 in 7 hours 50 minutes. 



On May Day, 1838, the Shrewsbury 'Greyhound' 

 with no passengers except a friend or two of the proprie- 

 tors, accomplished the distance from London at the rate 

 of twelve miles an hour including stoppages ! 



Numerous complaints were made from time to time 

 about the almost general practice of stage-coaches — day 

 coaches especially — not carrying guards. ' Securitas,' 

 writing in 1827, says, that it is his earnest wish the 

 addition of a guard to every stage coach may ere long 

 become prevalent. How the coachmen managed with- 

 out a guard seems now a mystery. 



On the subject of bearing-up coach horses ' The 

 Old Forester ' writes as follows :■ — ' There is no place 

 where Nimrod is more at home than on the coach-box, 

 and I see with pleasure he has resumed the subject of 

 " the road." 



' On the subject of " bearing reins," I quite agree with 

 him. It is not only a relief to the arm of the driver, but 

 to the horse himself in a long journey. The look of a 

 thing goes a great way in England, and no man who 

 wishes to turn out well would dispense with the bearing 

 rein. One of your correspondents thinks horses will go safer 

 without the bearing rein, and brings in the Continental prac- 



