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The traveller's oracle; or, maxims for locomotion, part 2 (of 2)

Chapter 10: ESTIMATE No. V.
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A practical manual offering detailed guidance on selecting, maintaining, and budgeting for horses, carriages, and driving staff. It supplies cost estimates for ownership and hire, descriptions of carriage construction and components (axle-trees, wheels, harness), and advice on purchasing, repairing, and evaluating new and second-hand vehicles. Chapters cover stable management, horse health and feeding, seasonal care, emergency handling, and the duties and management of coachmen, with rules for punctuality and hiring. An accessible method for calculating hackney-coach fares and a glossary of technical coachmaking terms complete the hands-on reference for owners and hirers.

ESTIMATE No. V.


The former is The Usual and Liberal Plan of Keeping a Carriage—it cannot be kept so comfortably on any other; but we must also tell our Readers The Cheapest Plan, which is about £100 per Annum less.

£. s. d.
1st. Instead of giving £84 per Annum for a New Carriage and Harness, made in the best style, as per Estimate No. 9, you may hire an inferior, or a vamped-up second-hand one for about 60 0 0
A Hackneyman will supply a Pair of Horses, and keep them, &c. in his Livery Stables, for 135 0 0
Standing of Carriage, and charge for cleaning and greasing, &c. as in Estimate No. 6, per annum, not less than 11 16 0
Duty on Horses and Carriage 10 14 6
A Grand managing Economist informed me that he pays the Hostler at a Livery Stable 8s. per week additional, i. e. £20 per annum, to do all the work usually done by the Coachman, except driving the Carriage—he comes for orders as a Coachman does, and brings the Carriage to the Door, when his Man Servant, who acts as Coachman7, mounts the Box and drives it; on its return, the Footman drives it to the Stables, and the Hostler does all the rest of the business usually done by a Coachman 20 0 0
Extra Wages to a Footman for Driving, and Box Coat, &c. not less than, per annum 8 0 0
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245 10 6
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Obs.—Few People but those who have either a very Strong Purse, or a very Weak Person, really require a Carriage every day.

Twice, or Thrice in a week would be quite enough for many;—such will do wisely, to find a Friend who will pay half of the Expense, and use the Equipage on alternate days—and on Sundays let it rest.