CHEAP CARRIAGES
The Spanish Queen's coach wait* without—an owner. Anyone in the market for a royal coach this year can go to Madrid and bargain for one. Koyal landaus, brakes, English dogcarts, and phaetons,, more than fifty of them, highly polished and some with a crown on the door panel, are available for a song, The average price asked is a little more than £5, but an expert bargainer could probably get some of them, for £.2. The royal stables are being demolished and- the coaches iised by King Alfonso'"-and Queen Victoria .were' picked up by speculators for almost;nothing. .--Not one has b.e.en. ?old thns-faj; to members of the old^gristocracy. '" Some have been bought "by -sherry • Shippers in Andalusia. A retired ' bullfighter bought two at a bargain. , One of in* phaotous .may do/ duty as' an episcopal coach iv Seville. : '•"-..'-..
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 36, 13 February 1933, Page 5
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140CHEAP CARRIAGES Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 36, 13 February 1933, Page 5
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