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Men of Invention and Industry

CHAPTER IX
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In 1818 he established a car between Waterford and Ross, in the following year a car between Waterford and Wexford, and another between Waterford and Enniscorthy.

A few years later he established other cars between Waterford and Kilkenny, and Waterford and Dungarvan.

From these furthest points, again, other cars were established in communication with them, carrying the line further north, east, and west.

So much had the travelling between Clonmel and Waterford increased, that in a few years (instead of the eight or ten passengers conveyed by Tom Morrissey's boat on the Suir) there was horse and car power capable of conveying a hundred passengers daily between the two places.
Bianconi did a great stroke of business at the Waterford election of 1826.

Indeed it was the turning point of his fortunes.


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