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Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh, and a town 

 chariot, built about forty years ago for the late Earl of 

 Onslow. As a means of comparing the British export 

 of carriages with that of foreign countries, Her Ma- 

 jesty's Commissioners, at the request of the Carriage 

 Committee, have procured from the Board of Trade 

 statistics of the export and import of carriages, which 

 show that the export trade of France and Austria now 

 greatly exceeds that of Great Britain. The Post- 

 master-General showed a model of a mail-coach, such 

 as carried the letters of a former generation on all the 

 great roads throughout the country. 



The literature of carriage-building does not receive 

 so much attention in England as in several other 

 countries. In France a magazine is published every 

 two months ; and in the United States, there are two 

 periodicals dealing specially with carriage-building. 

 These are well supported, and have a large circula- 

 tion ; in them are discussed an infinity of matters 

 connected with the manufacture of carriaofes. and 

 illustrations of new designs and methods of construc- 

 tion appear constantly.* 



The conditions under which the Americans carry 

 on the carriage manufacture differ from those of Great 

 Britain. Up to the time of their war, carriages were 

 untaxed, and their use became much more general 

 than in England ; their trade is now protected by a 

 duty of thirty per cent, on foreign carriages imported. 



Up to a recent time foreign carriages were pro- 

 hibited entry into France, except as the property of 

 persons using them. As regards taxation it is not 

 levied equally in Great Britain, for, while carriages 



* The best English publication on the subject is the Coach- 

 Builders' Art Journal, published by Messrs. Cooper, of Long Acre. 



