A practical treatise on coach-building historical and descriptive

The origin of the word coach has not yet been accurately determined. Menage says it is taken from the Latin _vehiculum_, which most people will take the liberty of doubting; Wac...

In coach-building, as in building construction, the first thing to be done is to prepare a design of the vehicle proposed to be built according to the requirements of the custom...

The materials employed in coach-building number a great many: various kinds of wood—ash, beech, elm, oak, mahogany, cedar, deal, pine, &c.; hides, skins, hair, wool, silk, glue,...

As previously remarked the vehicle is divided into two parts—the carriage and the body. After the drawing or draught is carefully worked out to full-size on the black-board in t...

These parts fitted together would form what is generally known as a coach, or a vehicle, the body of which is large, and suspended by leathern braces from the ends of =C= spring...

A wheel for a locomotive vehicle is a circular roller, either cylindrical or conical, the width or thickness of which is considerably less than its diameter. It may be either so...

An axle, or an axletree, for a locomotive wheel vehicle, is that portion of wood or metal, or both combined, which serves as the axis or centre for the wheels to turn round on.

Springs in locomotive vehicles are the elastic substances interposed between the wheels and the load or passengers in order to intercept the concussion caused by running over an...

“To bring a carriage into a different course from a straight one requires a circular motion, and at half a turn a carriage has established itself in a right angle to its positio...

In addition to the foregoing, a large quantity of expensive ironwork is used in the construction of carriages; the principal cause of which expense is not the cost of the materi...

The pure colours consist of those which are called simple, or _primary_; these are red, yellow, and blue; and those which are formed from their mixture in pairs (binary compound...

At the present time nearly all possessors of carriages have their private marks painted on some part of the panels. These take the form of monograms, initial letters, crests, an...

This is a department which requires great taste as well as skill. The interior of a carriage should be lined with cloth and silk, or cloth and morocco, with laces specially manu...

It is pleasing to be able to refer to the increased skill and ingenuity of the coach workmen, especially among the rising generation of operatives. This fact was elicited by the...

English carriage constructors are certainly not an inventive race, if we allow that the names by which carriages are known are indicative of their origin. Coach is derived from...

With very few exceptions, it is to be supposed that the greater number of those who can afford to indulge in the luxury of carriages are desirous of enjoying them on the most ec...