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Men of Invention and Industry

CHAPTER IX
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They might go to Cahir market, do their business there, and be comfortably back within the day.

Bianconi then thought of extending the car to Tipperary and Limerick.

In the course of the same year, 1815, he started another car between Clonmel, Cashel, and Thurles.

Thus all the principal towns of Tipperary were, in the first year of the undertaking, connected together by car, besides being also connected with Limerick.
It was easy to understand the convenience of the car system to business men, farmers, and even peasants.

Before their establishment, it took a man a whole day to walk from Thurles to Clonmel, the second day to do his business, and the third to walk back again; whereas he could, in one day, travel backwards and forwards between the two towns, and have five or six intermediate hours for the purpose of doing his business.
Thus two clear days could be saved.
Still carrying out his scheme, Bianconi, in the following year (1816), put on a car from Clonmel to Waterford.


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