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Baltimore was one of the early centres of car improvements. Of the first passenger car on the Baltimore and Ohio, a modern writer says that on this road "ran, first of all, a little, clap-boarded cabin on wheels, for all the world like one of those North Carolina mountain huts, with the driver perched on top of the front portico-driver, because the motive power then was one horse in tread-mill box."
It was succeeded by something like a market car on wheels, and subsequently by stage-coach bodies. An advance is described in the Baltimore American, of August 4th, 1830, as a device of Richard Imlay, of which that journal says that "the body of the carriage will contain twelve persons, and the outside seats at either end will receive six, including the driver. On the top of the carriage is placed a double sofa, running length wise, which will accommodate twelve more. A wire netting rises from two sides of the carriage to a height which renders the top seats perfectly secure. The whole is surmounted by in iron framework, with an awning to protect from sun or rain. The carriage, which is named the Ohio, is very handsomely finished." |
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12.06.2009 17:21 |
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