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afternoon Dorking became an accomplished fact, Mr. Scott 

 resigned his post as honorary secretary, and devoted himself 

 exclusively to the two Dorkings. The fate of the Brighton 

 road hung for some time in the balance; but at last it was 

 worked by Mr. Tiffany, an American gentleman, who obtained 

 his horses, and likewise his instruction, from Charles Ward, 

 of the Paxton stables. Mr. Tiffany did the thing very well : 

 he had two coaches, one by Peters, and the other built for 

 him by Messrs. Laurie & Marner ; one of the two had pigskin 

 cushions. 



Colonel Tyrwhitt and Lord Norreys kept on to Reigate ; 

 Captain Waller Otway and Captain Williams, with H. Thoro- 

 good, professional, worked the Sunbury and Weybridge road ; 

 while Sir H. de Bathe, having quitted the Dorking coach 

 for the Westerham, left the former in the hands of Lord 

 Macduff and Colonel Withington, with whom was John Thoro- 

 good, nephew to the old coachman of the Norwich Times. 

 The guard was Byford. Lord Bective and ColoneL_Hathorn 

 looked after the Tunbridge Wells coach, and, when it finished 

 the season, the proprietors, together with Selby and Cracknell, 

 transferred their services to the St. Albans road for the winter. 

 The High Wycombe coach, under Mr. John Eden's manage- 

 ment, went on as usual. In two instances there was a little 

 needless interference by one coach with the route of another ; 

 but in other respects the season passed off satisfactorily. On 

 three days in the week, Mr. Tiffany ran through Reigate, 

 and by so doing caused a certain amount of harm to the 

 regular Reigate coach, which, by the way, left London at the 

 same time as the Brighton coach. Then the morning Dorking 

 travelled via Vauxhall Bridge, and for some distance accom- 

 panied the Westerham coach. 



In 1874 the interest in road-coaching appears to have been 

 well sustained, though there were several changes from the 

 order of 1873. Lord Norreys and Colonel Tyrwhitt had given 

 up the Reigate road ; the Weybridge coach was a thing of the 

 past ; while Lord Guilford and Mr. Reginald Herbert had been 



