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Show oooooooooo Mxj-e First Steam Carriage Met With Disapproval of the Invention publicly in Bath, tlm party left early on Monday morning to return. Prudential considerations Induced them not to light their fire until they had passed the place of their late annoyance. They then lighted, light-ed, and amidst the most provoking delays de-lays in securing supplies of water, coke, and charcoal, came the last 84 miles In about 12 hours, thus giving the proof experimental of the capacity of using steam carriages on our ordl. nary roads. The London Times reprints the following fol-lowing from Its Issue of August 5, 1820: A Gurney's steam carriage arrived ar-rived on Monday, at the Cranford Bridge inn, from an experimental tour to and from Bath. The success of this trial much exceeds the most sanguine friends of the Invention. . . . Mr. Gurney, his brother. Colonel Vlney, Captain Dobbin, and assistants started from Cranford bridge about 4 a. m. They proceeded al a most rapid rate to Maidenhead, which they reached, notwithstanding two or three delays, In about an hour and five minutes a distance of nearly fifteen miles. After this proof of their capability of speed, they traveled more leisurely, until they arrived near Malksham where . . . they were attacked by some brutal fellows, who. Imagined they were "come to take the bread out of their mouths." To prevent similar occurrences, oc-currences, It was thought advisable to draw the carriage the remainder of the way by horses. Having exhibited ex-hibited the powers and practicability |