Abbot-Downing Company

[1] Abbot-Downing made coaches and large passenger vehicles of all kinds, including horse-drawn streetcars.

They had opened shops in New York and Vermont and established an agency in Australia but — instead of taking to mass production like most industries — Abbot, Downing stuck with custom orders and handwork.

[1] Some local investors resurrected Abbot, Downing's activities in 1912, adding motorized trucks and fire engines to the new catalogue.

Cobb had taken over to Australia two Concord thoroughbrace wagons for Adams & Co, and in July 1853 they began a carrying service from Melbourne to its port.

The carrying venture was unsuccessful largely because of very bad weather and, like Wells Fargo, Adams & Co withdrew from Australia.

[4][5] On January 30, 1854, the new firm, having mounted seats in the former Adams & Co Concord wagons, started a stagecoach service running the 100 miles (160 km) or so between Bendigo and Melbourne through Castlemaine, then named Forest Creek.

[13] Freeman Cobb lost money in banking investments and returned to Adams & Co to manage their Boston agency.

[5] "In the early years of Southern Rhodesia the only method of travelling was by great lumbering coaches similar to those formerly in use in America.

They were drawn by ten mules and carried besides the twenty-five pounds of luggage allowed to each traveller all the Government parcels and mails."

"the coach never stopping day or night except at stations every twelve miles or so where the mules were changed or at a wayside store where half an hour was allowed for a hasty meal."