Welcome to Joe Hughes Airport Travel Connect
As a representative of the Airport Travel Service I provide a first class 24-hour service, collecting you from your home or
business at any time and reliably getting you to your chosen UK airport (or other place - event) and on time! And if you wish
on your return to use my service I will be waiting for you at the airport, seaport, train ... to collect you and enable you
to relax on your homeward journey.
I offer reliable and efficient door-to-door service between the Luton (Bedfordshire) area and all UK airports, catering for
both private and business customers and short and long distances. Corporate accounts welcome!
If you are looking for a safe, fast, smooth and as stress free transfer as possible just call on: 07730 363256 or use online
booking form. I am using Mini Bus that can seat 8 passengers comfortably and has a room for about 10 suitcases plus hand luggage.
Long distance travel
as described in the booklet "Horse-drawn Transport" designed and printed by Luton Town Hall Printing Division for The Mossman Collection of horse-drawn wheeled vehicles housed in a pavilion in the Stockwood Country Park, Luton, Bedfordshire where it forms part of the Stockwood Craft Museum and Gardens.
The earliest means of long distance travel by vehicles available to the public were the heavy stage waggons of the 17th century. These were simple, four-wheel waggons covered by canvas, They could accommodate up to thirty passenges and, pulled by seven or eight horses, travelled no more than fifteen miles a day.
Such were the improvements to roads and vehicles that occurred in the years prior to the arrival of the railways that the period of the 1820s and 30s was known as the "golden age of coaching". A system of wide, smooth roads had been built throughout most of Britain. At intervals of 11 miles there were coaching inns and staging posts which provided stopping places where fresh post-horses could be obtained and travellers could spend the night. Passangers could travel by commercial Stage Coach or in one of the Royal Mail Coaches.
Alternatively travellers could hire the yellow-coloured Post Chaises, nick-named "Yellow Bounders. These were fast travelling chariots which used the posting system and could obtain fresh changes of horses at the posting inns. They were driven by post boys and there was room between the front springs for luggage.
The wealthy owned their own Travelling Chariots. These were the most comfortable vehicles for travelling long distances in the late 18th and early 19th centuries and enabled people to travel extensively both at home and abroad. Unlike coaches, chariots carried only two passengers seated side by side, facing forwards. The space between the front springs beneath the driver's seat often contained a "Salisbury boot" for luggage and a rumble seat at the back could accommodate two servants.
Stockwood Craft Museum and Gardens, Stockwood Country Park, Farley Hill, Luton Bedfordshire LU1 4BH,
tel: 01582 38714
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