354 THE COACHING AGE. 



might have happened that Sherman was working one 

 van concern with Bland and another with Lush, 

 in like manner as he worked several coaches on the 

 same road with different sets of partners, whose 

 principal object it always was to run to a proprie- 

 tor's house in London having a large connection. 



Settlement of Vans, Fourteen Days, due 27th June, 1837. 



Shares. 



M. £ s. d. 



£ s. d. 

 Keceipts 119 15 8 



Disbursements 56 2 8 



Mr. Sherman 36 18 12 



Mr. Hammond 29^' 15 3 1 



Mr. Hunt 22 11 7 4 



Mr. Lush 351 18 8 7 



Dividedby 123 miles 63 13 



at 10s. 4d. Sur- 



plus, 2s. ' 63 11 



The sharing in a van concern was totally different 

 from that of a coach, so that one cannot well be com- 

 pared with the other with a view of seeing which paid, 

 best ; but the wear and tear of the stock working vans 

 would be much less, according to the well-known 

 adage that ' It's the pace that kills.' Horses for working 

 in vans, too, would not be so expensive in the 

 first instance, very likely, as those required for the 

 fast and fashionable day-coaches. What were called 

 the 'Fly Vans,' however, did not travel all the 

 way at a walking-pace, like the old broad-wheeled 

 waggons, and hence the appellation of fly vans. It 

 will have been noticed that in Bland's advertisement 



