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horses for the two stages in and out of London, the two 

 coaches meeting for lunch at Horley. 



The -Brighton road did not, however, have the revival all to 

 itself in 1867, as another coaching disciple arose in the person 

 of Mr. C. A. R. Hoare, lately Master of the Vale of White 

 Horse hounds, who in the autumn started a coach called the 

 Exquisite, between Beckenham and Sevenoaks, the horses 

 for which were provided by E. Fownes. When the Brighton 

 double-coach was taken off for the season, the horses belonging 

 to Mr. Angell were sold ; but Mr. Chandos Pole determined 

 to run to Brighton on his own account all the winter. Mr. 

 Chandos-Pole-Gell agreed to let his horses remain ; some ad- 

 ditional ones, several of which had been working during the 

 summer in the Ilfracombe coach, were purchased, and the 

 coach ran ' single ' all the winter, with Tedder and Dackombe 

 as coachman and guard. 



Some years previously Mr. Chandos Pole bought, at 

 Gloucester, what was probably the last of the old 'Patent 

 Mails.' It had been newly done up, and was lettered for 

 * Gloucester and Carmarthen,' the continuation of the old 

 London and Gloucester mail, which in pre-railroad days Alfred 

 Tedder had driven between London and Oxford. This coach 

 was used by Mr. Chandos Pole on the Brighton road during 

 the winter season of 1867-68, because it was lighter than either 

 of those by Messrs. Holland & Holland, and quite roomy 

 enough for the passengers likely to patronise the undertaking ; 

 and so it came about that Tedder, at the outset of the revival, 

 found himself on the box of the identical coach he had driven 

 years before. It must have been terribly dreary work, however, 

 and fortune made but a poor requital for the proprietor's pluck 

 and perseverance. The professionals often had the coach 

 to themselves, when, of course, no ' tips ' accrued to relieve 

 the monotony of their drive ; and the coach barely earned 

 its tolls. 



The summer of 1868 saw coaching once more to the fore. 

 Mr. Chandos-Pole-Gell (brother to the late Mr. Chandos Pole), 



