sometimes used as equivalent to acoach. «I am going by Cobb.» The word is still used, thoughno Mr. Cobb has been connected with Australian coaches for manyyears. See quotation.
1861. T. McCombie, `Australian Sketches,' p. 184:
«Mr. Cobb was an American, and has returned long ago to hisnative country. He started a line of conveyances fromMelbourne to Castlemaine some time after the gold discoveries.Mr. Cobb had spirit to buy good horses, to get first-classAmerican coaches, to employ good Yankee whips, and in a coupleof years or so he had been so extensively patronised that hesold out, and retired with a moderate fortune.» [But theCoaching Company retained . . . the style of Cobb & Co.]
1879 (about). `Queensland Bush Song':
«Hurrah for the Roma Railway!
Hurrah for Cobb and Co.!
Hurrah, hurrah for a good fat horse
To carry me Westward Ho!»