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| Keywords: 1831-View-Whitechapel-Road-steam-carriage-caricature.jpg Walter Hancock The two large steam coaches are named The Infernal Defiance ” From Yarmouth to London and The Dreadful Vengeance ” Colchester London On the rear of the coach in front is a banner proclaiming Warranted free from Damp the small delivery wagon has Bread served Hot on its side and the service station proclaims Coals Sold Here only 4s 6d per Pound As documented in Paul Johnson's book The Birth of the Modern the early British railroad companies used their political influence to preclude possible competition from free-running steam coaches which may not have been ultimately too practicable at that time anyway A futuristic view of the traffic and pollution problems to come 1831 Steam carriages had already been tried with limited success 1831 caricature by H T Alken scanned by H Churchyard from Dorothy George's Hogarth to Cruikshank PD-old-70-1923 Steam-powered road vehicles 1831 Automobiles in cartoons 1831 19th-century caricatures 1831 Georgian era 1831 Industrial revolution 1831 Transport in London in art 1831 1831 in London Whitechapel Road Road vehicles in London Cartoons of London | ||||
