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The galleries were massively on the Northern Irishman's side - they'd carry him on a sedan chair down every fairway if they could - but Hovland was popular out there, too.

“I didn’t feel a thing as the car floated over every bump. It was a sedan chair on wheels. It was good to be Le Roi.”

Alloa-born artist David Allan created drawings of ordinary people going about their daily lives in Edinburgh, including soldiers, coalmen, fishwives, sedan chair porters, firemen and officers of the city guard.

The Peak Tram started operations in 1888, when Hong Kong was a British colony, to transport people up Victoria Peak instead of using sedan chairs.

They sat in a sedan chair carried up the mountain by their Chinese partners.