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have been obliged to wear a badge, like an omnibus-driver ; 

 hence the extension of the journey. Lord Norreys and 

 Colonel Tyrwhitt gave up the Oatlands Park, and ran to 

 Reigate instead, with Timms for professional as before. On 

 December n the proprietors of the Brighton coach lost the 

 services of Alfred Tedder, who died at the age of sixty ; he 

 began his career on the Oxford road, and at one time used to 

 keep the Royal Hotel, Truro ; so that in taking the Chequers, 

 Horley, he was not, as some supposed at the time, embarking 

 in a business of which he knew nothing. 



The season of 1873 saw twelve coaches running in and out 

 of London, with here and there a change in the proprietors of 

 the old-established concerns. The number of previously exist- 

 ing coaches wa increased by Sir Henry de Bathe (who quitted 

 the Dorking confederacy) and Major Furnivall taking the 

 Westerham road, with Moon coachman and E. Spencer guard. 

 The inauguration, if we remember rightly, was scarcely a happy 

 one, as some portion of the harness gave way, and aTIady sus- 

 tained an injury. Mr. Sedgwick bethought him of Watford, and, 

 with Saunders as professional, and Brown as guard, started 

 the Tantivy on a road which, at the outset, seemed scarcely 

 likely to pay. After a short time, however, the coach made 

 two journeys a day. It reached Piccadilly from Watford about 

 ii A.M. ; a fresh team having been put to, it started again, 

 returning in the afternoon. When the Tantivy made its first 

 appearance it was seen that the harness-maker had become 

 somewhat confused between the technical language of stag- and 

 fox-hunting ; for he had decorated the blinkers and pads with 

 foxes which, had the coach been named the Tally-ho, would 

 have been quite appropriate. The Tantivy required a stag. A 

 third new speculation was the Guildford coach, which, though 

 beginning late in the season, afforded an opportunity for Mr t 

 Angell, then out of harness, to display his skill on the box. 

 He was the sole proprietor, and when he was absent, Cracknell, 

 the once famous Tantivy coachman, took his place. Captain 

 Haworth, who had been instrumental in giving coaching a fresh 



