HOJV THE COACHES WERE NAMED 2S5 



to do ever since, and now in the Winter Season 

 twice in the week." The Lewes and Brighton 

 Iload seems, however, to have heen long enough 

 and hroad enough for hotli Tubh and Batchelor, 

 for they both continued until four years later, 

 Avhen Batchelor died, and his business was sold to 

 Tubb, who took a partner, and himself in due 

 course experienced the bitterness of a rival on the 

 road, prepared with better machines, a sj^eedier 

 journey, and lower fares. 



About this time, when hatreds and rivalries 

 were seething in the south on this then com- 

 paratively unimportant road, the Shrewsbury and 

 London road, on its several routes, by way of 

 Birmingham and Coventry, or by Oxford and 

 Banbury, was, as befitted so important a high- 

 way, the scene of a much keener and more 

 protracted strife between opposing confederations 

 of coach-proprietors, and in consequence coach 

 nomenclature grew with the rapidity of melons 

 under a glass frame. It should be noted here 

 tliat coaching did not progress evenly all over 

 the kingdom, but was more advanced on some 

 roads than others. Thus, although the era of 

 " Machines " and " Flying Machines " did not 

 properly dawn until after 1750, yet on the 

 Bath Boad we already find a " Mying Machine " 

 in 1667. Just as, nowadays, those people who 

 happen to reside on a branch line of some great 

 raihvay are commonl}^ fobbed off with the second- 

 hand rolling-stock and other offscourings of the 

 main line, so the inhabitants along the lesser 



