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Mr. Chandos Pole came on, and went to Brighton. There 

 was, however, one other circumstance which in a marked 

 degree contributed to the success, not of the Brighton road 

 only, but subsequently of other routes as well. It was this : 

 in 1869 the proprietors were fortunate enough to secure as 

 Honorary Secretary Mr, Arthur Guillum Scott, of the India 

 Office, who freely advertised the coach, and brought to bear 

 upon its welfare untiring energy, perseverance, and great 

 judgment. Everybody knew about the Brighton coach now ; 

 handbills and posters were encountered everywhere ; cards, 

 setting forth the hours and places of its arrival and departure, 

 found their way to the chief continental hotels, and to go to 

 Brighton by road was soon the proper thing to do ; so the 

 speculation prospered, and the horses found their loads much 

 heavier than did those which drew Mr. Chandos Pole's coach 

 in the winter of 1867-68. In short, the season was said to 

 be remunerative, and when the coach was taken off the road 

 at the beginning of October, it was with the understanding 

 that the succeeding spring would again find it running. 



Meantime Mr. Charles Hoare had chosen Tunbridge 

 Wells as his destination, though between that place and 

 Sevenoaks the horsing was entrusted to Mr. W. Pawley, who 

 used to run platers at the Bromley Steeplechases, and nephew 

 to the Mr. Pawley who ran a coach from Sevenoaks, in Kent, 

 to some place in the neighbourhood of Sloane Street down 

 to the year 1851. The example of the three previous years 

 tempted Lord Carrington to enrol himself in the list of coach 

 proprietors. Preferring a partner to share the driving and the 

 profits or losses he met with one in the person of Mr. 

 Angell, who had now left the Brighton confederacy, and the 

 two started a coach to Windsor, via Hounslow, with G. 

 Dackombe, late of the Brighton, as coachman and guard. 

 That it was capitally horsed and driven need not be said ; 

 but if proof be wanted it is forthcoming in the fact that the 

 journey of 21 miles was sometimes performed in an hour 

 and fifty-five minutes. The proprietors were unremitting in 



