KING'S JUBILEE
THE SPEAKER'^ COACH
A vehicle which will be one of the chief glories of.the King's Jubilee processions—the 23-ton State coach of the Speaker of the House .of Commons—stands in a coach-builder's yard at Shepherd's Bush, states the "Daily Mail." . -
As it has not been used since the Coronation 25 years j ago, much delicate work of repair :and redecoration is necessary. So now it stands supported by jacks and screened off from its neighbours—all expensive, gleaming modern. motor-cars, which seem curiously unimpressive beside the coach's 200-year-old magnificence. )' Supposed to have been given to. the Speaker by Queen Anne, the coach has a number of beautiful painted panels. \ ■ -■:■-• ,V. The work of renovation is expected to take three weeks. So heavy arid cumbersome is the /coach that only horses used to drawing great loads can bear the strain; so, since 1839, the team: has been supplied by Messrs. Whitbread and Co., the brewers. The fijm; first undertook to supply the horses at the request of the then Speaker, Mr. Charjes Shaw-Lefevre, afterwards Lord Eversley, who was married to a daughter of Mr. Samuel Whitbread, at that time, M.P. tor Southill, Bedfordshire.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 95, 23 April 1935, Page 10
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