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[Chester?], [1770?]. Single sheet 161 x 113mm, mounted on card, slight fraying to margins, some minor surface abrasion. An early advertisement card for the Chester Flying Machine which is to carry four passengers only from London to Chester and back. Giving pick up times and places, stage coach drivers and places they take over. “Sets out from the George and White-Hart Inn, in Aldergate-street, London, and from the White-Lyon and Yatcht Inns in Chester, every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday Mornings, precisely at Two o’Clock... Each Passenger allowed fourteen Pounds Weight Luggage... Performed (if God permit) by John Benson, of Whitchurch. Turvill Drayson, of Dunchurch. Minor Colley, of St Albans. George Smith, of Chester... The Proprietors will not be accountable for any Watches, Jewels, Rings, Plate, Money, or Bank-Notes, that may be lost, except entered and paid for as such.” Not listed on ESTC. |
