CHAPTER VI.

Writers on Carriages--Periodical Publications on Coaches--Tight Harnessing--Height of the Driver’s Seat--Cover to the Driver’s Seat--American Buggy--American Trotting Waggons--Labour-Saving Machines--Machines Save Time--American Magazines on Carriages--Principles of Draught--Disadvantages of Two-Wheeled Vehicles--Track of Wheels--Utility of High Wheels--Side Thrust and Vibration of Wheels--Pitch of Axles and Dish of Wheels--Springs--Elliptic Springs--Brake Retarders--India Rubber Brake Blocks--A Load Should Rest on the Highest Wheel--Danger to a Stage Coach on Low Front Wheels--Carriage Drawings of Full Size--Value of being a Good Draughtsman--Mr Gladstone on Design--Coachmakers’ Company’s Library 126-140

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

Frontispiece, as Plate 37.

Plate 1--Figure 1. Egyptian Car.

“ 2. Grecian Car.

“ 3. Roman Car.

Plate 2--British War Chariot.

Plate 3--Ancient Roman Chariot, from a Bas-Relief at Orleans.

Plate 4--The Ordinary German Waggon.

Plate 5--Two-wheeled Carriage, Hindostan.

Plate 6--Four-wheeled Carriage, Hindostan.

Plate 7--Hungarian Coach, from Ginzrot’s Work.

Plate 8--The Araba of Turkey.

Plate 9--Ancient Horse Litter.

Plate 10--Wedding Coach of Duke of Saxony, 1584.

Plate 11--Ancient Italian Coach of 1549.

Plate 12--Queen Elizabeth’s Coach.

Plate 13--Coach of time of Charles I.

Plate 14--Coach of Paris in 1646.

Plate 15--Coach in which Henry IV. was shot.

Plate 16--Coach in which Louis XIV. entered Paris in 1654.

Plate 17--Coach of Louis XIV., 1700.

Plate 18--The Corbillard, an early French Coach.

Plate 19--Brouette of Paris, 1670.

Plate 20--The Berlin, from one now at Vienna.

Plate 21--Litter to be carried by horses, now at Vienna.

Plate 22--Coach of Charles II.’s time.

Plate 23--The first Landau.

Plate 24--Chariot à l’Anglaise, after M. Roubo.

Plate 25--A French Chaise de Poste of 1760.

Plate 26--From a Print published at Rome, 1692.

Plate 27--Landau of 1790.

Plate 28--Sociable after Hatchett.

Plate 29--A high Perch Phaeton of 1790.

Plate 30--A One-horse Phaeton of 1790.

Plate 31--A Chair-back Gig of 1790.

Plate 32--A Caned Whiskey of 1790.

Plate 33--A Briska on =C= Springs.

Plate 34--English Stage Coach, 1787, after Rowlandson.

Plate 35--Diligence from Paris to Lyons.

Plate 36--Modern French Diligence.

Plate 37--Probably the first Sociable. The property of the Emperor of Germany. A Child’s Carriage of the date of 1700.--_Frontispiece._

Plate 38--An English Post Chaise of 1790.

_The History of the Art of Coachbuilding._