"Will I pay the pike, or drive at it, plaise your honour ?" said a driver to his passenger on approaching a turnpike-gate.

Sam Lover used to tell a story of a car-driver, who, after driving his passenger up-hill and down-hill, along a very bad road, asked him for something extra at the end of his journey.
"Faith," said the driver, "its not putting me off with this ye'd be, if ye knew but all." The gentleman gave him another shilling.

"And now what do you mean by saying, 'if ye knew but all ?'" "That I druv yer honor the last three miles widout a linch-pin!" Bianconi, to make sure of the soundness and safety of his cars, set up a workshop to build them for himself.

He could thus depend upon their soundness, down even to the linch-pin itself.

He kept on his carving and gilding shop until his car business had increased so much that it required the whole of his time and attention; and then he gave it up.
In fact, when he was able to run a car from Clonmel to Waterford--a distance of thirty-two miles--at a fare of three-and-sixpence, his eventual triumph was secure.
He made Waterford one of the centres of his operations, as he had already made Clonmel.