2-699-282 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'An Old Coachmaker's Shop in Long Acre', (1881). Premises of Hatchett & Co, coachbuilders at Covent Garden in London. John Hatchett's company (c1750-1870) made coaches and carriages to high standards and innovative designs which were copied by his rivals. From Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places. Westminster and the Western Suburbs, by Edward Walford, Vol. III. [Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., London, Paris & New York, 1881]