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Having mentioned the late
Duke of Beaufort as a patron of
the road — the stage coachmen of
London sent, by the way, a
wreath on the occasion of the
funeral — it may not be inoppor-
tune to notice the death of a very
old proprietor and coachman, Mr.
James Colpitts (who rode several
times with the Duke on the
Brighton road), whose decease
happened a week or two ago. He
was about eighty-two years of
age, so that he could remember
coaching about ten years earlier
than did the Duke of Beau-
fort. Indeed, he was more
or less conversant with the details
of the business probably longer
than that, for his father was a
coach proprietor and mail con-
tractor, and while yet a schoolboy
Mr. James Colpitts was sent out Tamsulosin Doxazosin
to drive a mail cart on an emer-
gency. The story used to be told
in the north that even before he
reached his teens he drove a mail
coach on the regular coachman Doxazosin Mesylate
refusing, for some reason, to dis-
charge his duty on a boisterous
night. That a boy not twelve
years old should have been sent Doxazosin Mesylate 4mg
out at night with a coach and
four Doxazosin 1 Mg is, of course, nonsense, and I
believe the real story is that the
man who drove a mail cart was
sent to drive a coach owing to the
disablement of the professional,
and that young Colpitts had to
take out the mail cart.
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It was on a mail cart that
Philip, better known as "Tim,"
Carter began his career before he
was promoted to a pair-horse
coach on the Brighton road, and
soon afterwards to one of the
north country mails.
It was in the summer of 1894
that the late Mr. Colpitts rode for
the last time on a coach behind
four horses. Mr. Lewis Priest-
man — his father was a good
amateur coachman — was then
running the Venture between
Newcastle and Tynemouth, and
he in\ated the old coachman to
make the journey, and greatly Buy Doxazosin did
he enjoy his day. Doxazosin 8 Mg The turn-out
of coach, horses and harness
pleased him greatly, and there is
no doubt that many of our modern
coaches would compare favour-
ably with almost all those of older
date. Some of the very swell
concerns like the Brighton Age,
the Shrewsbury Hirondelle, or
the Birmingham Tally-Ho, were
exceedingly well turned out, but
the majority of the cross-country
coaches left a good deal to be
desired, while the less said about
most of the harness used with the
night coaches the better ; it had
seen its best days by daylight,
and was nourished exclusively on
liberal applications of neat s' -foot
oil . In connection , however, with
Mr. Colpitts's later coaching ex-
periences it should not be omitted
that a very interesting meeting
once took place in London be-
tween Tim Carter, old Cracknell,
who Cardura Doxazosin at one time drove a Norwich
coach, and was, after the revival,
on the Brighton road, and Mr.
Colpitts. If memory serves
rightly, it was Mr. J. B. Angell
who brought about the meeting.
Mr. Angell had been on the
Prince of Wales coach, then run
by Mr. John Eden from the Scotch
Stores m Oxford Street, to Doxazosin 2 Mg High
Wycombe, on which Mr. Angell
was having a day, and happening
to see Tim Carter in London, he
found Cracknell, too, and the three
old coachmen had quite a long
talk.
Mr. Colpitts was never, so far
as is known, connected with any
long distance coaches, but owned
and drove several that made short
journeys. His Doxazosin Tablets yard was in the
Cloth Market at Newcastle, and
for some time he drove between
Newcastle and Durham, the coach
going on with another coachman
to Sunderland. Another of his
coaches ran between Newcastle
and Shotley Bridge, and he after-
wards ran between Newcastle
and Morpeth, keeping on Generic Doxazosin after the
railway connected the two places :
but steam was too formidable an
opponent, and Mr. Colpitts, who
had successfully competed against
most owners on that road, had to
confess himself beaten.
There was no lack of opposition
in the north while Mr. Colpitts
was a coach proprietor, and all
sorts of dodges were resorted to
in order that passengers might be
secured, and on one occasion a
lady with a bandbox and a baby
was seen to be approaching the
spot where Mr. Colpitts*s North
Briton and a rival vehicle were
standing. The opposition guard
ran up and secured the bandbox,
but the far-seeing Mr. Colpitts
went and carried off the baby in
triumph because, as he afterwards
explained, the passenger was
bound to follow the child. The
lady rode with Colpitts! The
latter did so well on the Shotley
Bridge road that a confederacy
started an opposition coach, and
one of Doxazosin 8mg the men on their side
named Brown declared that, if
they did not run Colpitts off Doxazosin 4 the
road in a few months, he would
hang himself. The opposition
did not succeed, and the man did
actually commit suicide in the
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manner stated. It was mentioned
above that on the Morpeth road
Mr. Colpitts was beaten off by the
railway, but between Newcastle
and Durham he once beat the
rail. A heavy snowstorm came
on, and some of the passengers
elected to return to Durham by
rail, whereupon Mr. Colpitts re-
marked that he would beat the
train, and so he did, for although
he was between two and three
hours late, the train was Doxazosin Mesylate Tablets blocked
in Doxazosin Mesylate 2mg a cutting for forty-eight hours,
an incident which brought the
coach a good deal of custom during
the winter months.
Of incidents Mr. Colpitts had a
number to relate, and in talking of
overloading, he remembered how,
on one occasion, when Doxazosin 2mg his coach
was crammed inside and out, an
old lady decided to ride in the
front boot rather than be left be-
hind, and in quite another quarter
of England, Devonshire to wit,
the coachman of the Exeter Doxazosin Cardura and
Plymouth coach once took refuge
in the boot. This was Paul Col-
lings, a little man standing not
much over five feet one inch. He
started from the Black Horse Inn,
Exeter, Doxazosin 1mg in fine weather, but before
he had gone very far a smart
shower of rain began to fall, and
as Collings had left his Doxazosin 4 Mg overcoat
behind, he quietly dropped into