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| Picture No | 10216463 |
| Date | 1927 |
| Description | The Old and the New 'Rubbing Wheels': Coaching Days and Moto |
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A street scene from 1927 showing a the 'Old Berkeley', a stage coach operated by Messrs. Claud F. Goddard and Bertram Mills from London to Box Hill through the summer. The illustration alludes to the fact that by 1927 with the proliferation of automobiles on the road, a horse-drawn carriage was a rare sight - a 'picturesque anachronism'.
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| Source | The Illustrated London News. 1927. P.590-591. By W. R. S. Stott. |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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