422 



DRIVING, 



OLD 



the fog, 210; Mrs. Cox and 

 the runaway coach, 21 1 ; Bob 

 Pointer's ideas on coaching, 

 212 ; James Selby's coaching 

 career, 213-216; Selby's 

 record of London to Brighton 

 and back, 215 ; Joe Tollit's 

 coaching feats, 216 



Omnibuses, 365, 383, 389 



Orleans Club, 291 



PACK-HORSES, 26 



Pads, 98 ; Craddock's invention, 

 IQI 



Paintings, photographs, and il- 

 lustrations of carriages, 395 



Park -phaetons, 48, 380, 381 



Peat-moss, 74 



Perth dogcart, 76 



Phaetons, cost of, 112, 114; 



370, 373. 3 8 



Phoenix Metal Die Company, 

 100 



Pickford, Messrs., carriers, 95 



Pocket-knife, 151 



Poles, carriage, 84, 99, 136 



Pole-chains, 99, 117, 133 



Pole-head slip, Lacey's, loo 



Pole-pieces, Craddock's inven- 

 tion, 100 



Poling, 6 



Polo-gigs, cost of, 114 



Ponies, 149 



Pony- carriages, four-wheeled, 

 cost of, 114 



Pony-cart, cost of, 113 ; 379 



Pony-gigs, cost of, 114 



Pony-phaeton, 40, 48 



Postboys, 308-319; French, 

 323 ; Italian, 52 n 



Post-horses, 29, 70, 80 



Postilions, 322, 326, 357, 358 



Posting in England, 306 ; the 



REL 



Marquis of Worcester's ad- 

 venture, 307 ; postboys, 308 ; 

 old Tippoo, 308 ; long stages, 

 308 ; Mrs. Botham, of the 

 Pelican, 310 ; cads, 308, 

 311; baiting stables, 311; 

 postboys' dress, 312 ; over- 

 work in the saddle, 313 ; 

 putting horses to a carriage 

 for riding, 314; characters of 

 postboys, 314; driving from 

 the saddle, 314 ; their average 

 excellence, 315; their sobriety, 

 316; an obstinate boy, 317; 

 a drunken wheel boy, 318 ; a 

 sulky postboy, 318; bounders, 



319 



Posting in France ; 320, Eng- 

 lish versus French, 320 ; the 

 pavee and high-roads, 321 ; 

 horses and ostlers, 321 ; 

 English carriages fitted for 

 foreign travel, 322 ; dress of 

 the postilion, 322 ; jackboots, 

 323 ; the courier, 323 ; the 

 dormeuse, 324 ; the fourgon, 

 325 ; in Germany and Italy, 



325 ; names of horses, 326 ; 

 personality of the postilion, 



326 ; the malle-poste, 327 ; 

 the diligence, 328 



Posting-houses, 310 



Pressure-drag, 194 



Prices of coach-horses, 300, 301 



RAILWAYS versus coaching, 197 

 Raising fallen horses, 67 

 Regimental coaches, 270 

 Reins, management of, 3-8, 10, 

 13, 14, 18-20, 90, 120, 121, 

 124, 125, 129, 131, 133-137, 



157, 194 



Reliance slip link, 100 



