Talk:London:Hackeney Coach
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| - | some fragment to work with: | + | Is there any possibility to directly linking to inside ECCO? Or is the only possible solution for giving sources to state the full title (which is oftentimes blasphemously long) and give the Gale Document number? [I have those used by the current text-in-work in a file] |
| - | Intersting: novel-isation of hackney coach: | + | |
| - | The adventures of a hackney coach. The seventh edition, corrected Dublin, 1781. Eighteenth Century Collections Online. Gale Group. (Gale Document Number: CW3309106527) | + | |
| - | I-narrator hackney coach; 1st chapter musings of two gentle ladies that there is “adventures of a guinea” but not of a hackney coach wherefore this specific one would be really fit. | + | |
| - | Chapter 2: Origin: | + | |
| - | “I was made by a distinguished Coachmaker of Great Queen-Street, Licoln’s-Inn-Fields, for Mr. M---, a very worthy merchant in Threadneedle-Street, who acquired a considerable property, by an early and intense application to commercial business…” (25/236) | + | |
| - | Later re-bought by “a Hackney-man, of Oxford-Street; who had me numbered, and sent to his stand, next day, in Piccadilly. I remained but a few minutes here, when I took up… (31/236) | + | |
| - | (continued with the various passengers. I'll maybe have a closer look into this) | + | |
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| - | The book of coach-rates: or, hackney-coach directory. Describing above four thousand fares within the cities of London and Westminster, ... The second edition, corrected. London, 1770. 107pp. History and Geography | + | |
| - | Boyle, P. (Patrick). The fashionable court guide, or town visiting directory, for the year 1793, considerably enlarged, and carefully corrected. With the addition of NEAR ONE THOUSAND MEASURED HACKNEY COACH FARES and hotels. London, [1793]. 293pp. Social Sciences | + | |
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| - | This court guide is republished at least in the next year. It seems that adding huge numbers of hackney routes was either a good way to make those books thicker or simply appealed to tourists for whatever reason (very high mistrust in the drivers? Uncertainty about the routes? Frequent frauds?). This somewhat contradicts having stable fared for most routes comparable to nowadays' bus fares system and seems to be more equal to taxis' fares. | + | |
| - | --[[User:Nico Zorn|Nico Zorn]] 13:08, 15 December 2006 (CET) | + | |
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Is there any possibility to directly linking to inside ECCO? Or is the only possible solution for giving sources to state the full title (which is oftentimes blasphemously long) and give the Gale Document number? [I have those used by the current text-in-work in a file]
