The History of Coaches

CHAPTER I.

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Early Vehicles--Sledges--Solid Wheels--Egyptian Chariots--Early Vehicles Always had Two Horses--King Solomon’s Wedding Chariot--An Egyptian Mummy Wheel--Grecian Chariots--Vehicles of Ancient Rome--Scythian and Persian Cars--Funeral Car of Alexander the Great--War Chariot of Ancient Britain--Roman Military Roads--Wheels Found at Pompeii--Later Vehicles of the Roman Empire--Ancient Roman Dray--Carriages of Hindostan--A Carriage of Ancient Hungary--Turkish Carriages--Welsh and Irish Cars--Bristol Coburg 1-25