CH. I DEVELOPMENT OF THE COACH 7 



Mr Warde, of Squerries, is credited by 'Nimrod,' 

 in his Essays, reprinted in Malet (p. 249*), with 

 having induced the proprietors of the Manchester 

 ' Telegraph' to put the box on springs, which, ' Nim- 

 rod' says, ' was not the case when I first mounted 

 them.' As ' Nimrod' was born in 1778, it was prob- 

 ably about 1798 that he -first mounted them,' and 

 that would fix the date of the use of springs under 

 the driving-seat as being early in the 19th century. 

 It can hardly be supposed that the driving-seat was 

 separately placed on springs ; it was probably at- 

 tached, therefore, to the body, which was already on 

 springs, and thus led to the substitution of steel for 

 leather suspension. 



The reproduction in Malet's Annals of the Road 

 (p. 15), of an advertisement of the Edinburgh Stage- 

 Coach of 1754, is headed by a cut which shows the 

 driving-seat as being on the body ; but this cut is 

 not an accurate copy of the original and does not 

 show the construction of the coach of that period. 

 The photographic reproduction of an advertisement 

 in The Edinburgh Courant of May 13, 1754 (given 

 on p. 8), shows a vehicle resembling a private car- 

 riaee much more than a coach, but not unlike the 

 coach shown in Plate IV. The driving-seat is evi- 

 dently on the under-carriage. 



* These Essays were originally published in the Sporting Maga- 

 zine in 1822-1827. 'Nimrod' (J. C. Apperley) left The Sporting 

 Magazine in 1829. 



