CH. IV PAINTING AND LETTERING 79 



no place on which the name could be painted, and 

 while some of the mails had names, many of them 

 had none. 



In Malet's Annals of the Road there is an ad- 

 mirable drawing, in colour, of a mail-coach, which 

 distinctly shows all these details, and in the same 

 book there is a drawing of a stage-coach with body 

 and carriage-part painted the same colour. 



The colours of the mail-coaches have been 

 adopted by the Reunion Road Club of Paris, and 

 all its coaches are painted maroon and red, with the 

 red on the panel of the hind boot. 



