Tally Ho 1875 Holland & Holland Builders, London, England
Long Island Museum of American Art, History & Carriages
Internationally famous, the Tally-Ho
Road Coach was a catalyst of the road coaching movement in America,
which hit its stride in the 1880s. The vehicle was brought to this
country by Col. Delancey Kane, a founder of the New York Coaching Club
and the main force behind the popularization of American road coaching.
Written about widely in newspapers
and prominent publications of the time, road coaching became a major
event, engaged in by upper class society figures and watched by nearly
everyone. Road coaching took hold at a time that many Americans were
feeling nostalgic for a seemingly simpler time in transportation, before
stage coaches were supplanted by railroad travel. As Harper’s Weekly
put it, “genuine, healthful enjoyment can be derived from one ride out
of Pelham Bridge and back on the top of Colonel Kane’s coach than from
the whole flying railway trip from New York to San Francisco.”
'I find it interesting that in the 1880's Americans were longing for a simpler time in transportation before stage coach's and railroad. Little did they dream what was coming.............'
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