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Men of Invention and Industry

CHAPTER IX
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But when it went on to Limerick, a larger car was required.

The traffic between Clonmel and Waterford was also begun with a small-sized car.

But in the course of a few years, there were four large-sized cars, travelling daily each way, between the two places.

And so it was in other directions, between Cork in the south; and Sligo and Strabane in the north and north-west; between Wexford in the east, and Galway and Skibbereen in the west and south-west.
Bianconi first increased the accommodation of these cars so as to carry four persons on each side instead of three, drawn by two horses.

But as the two horses could quite as easily carry two additional passengers, another piece was added to the car so as to carry five passengers.


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