OLD COACH TO BE SEEN IN JUBILEE PROCESSION.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18468, 21 May 1928, Page 5

OLD COACH TO BE SEEN IN JUBILEE PROCESSION.

A slight error in the official programme for the Jubilee procession refers to one item as “ Mr Ell’s coaches.” Mr Ell is lending one coach, the “ Eckmann,” and Mr E. M. Lovell-Smith the other, the “ Burton.” A measure of interest attaches to the “ Burton “ coach. Named after the late Mr W. H. Burton, who recently died in Scotland, aged ninety-three, it was made to the order of Mr Charles C. Cole, senior partner of L. G. Cole and Co., proprietors of Cobb and Co. in Canterbury and Wellington, by Mr A. G. Howland, the firm s coachbuiider in Christchurch, in the spring of 1860. It was the first coach built here. Constructed for the West Coast road at a time when the route lay along the riverbed of the Cass, the Waimakariri and the Bealey, it has outlived its contemporaries. About twenty years ago, a new body was made for rt at Springfield, but the bows supporting the roof of the old part were used again, and give the character of the workmanship in those far-off days. It is fitting that Messrs Jas. Rugg and Win. Campbell, two old West Coast whips, are to be the drivers on the forthcoming occasion.