INDEX.
- Advantages of dishing wheels, 56
- American carriages, 144
- Argand lamp, 100
- Are they competent judges? 158
- Ash timber, 29
- Axle-boxes, 69
- Axles, earliest forms of, 70
- „ conical, 72
- „ Collinge, 73
- „ conditions necessary for perfection in, 76
- „ faggoting, 71
- „ mail, 72
- „ setting, 78
- „ welding steel, 76
- Beading, metal, 99
- Beech, 30
- Birch, American, 31
- Body, parts comprising, 40
- „ its construction, 42
- Bolts, various, 97
- Brake retarders, 52
- Britchka, 14
- Brougham, first, 18
- „ doctor’s, 27
- Buggy, 146
- Cab Phaeton, 18
- Cant-board, 41
- Carriage parts, 48
- Carriage parts, framing together, 50
- Carmine, 108
- Carts in France, 145
- C spring, 86
- Centring square, 59
- Chiaro-oscuro, 104
- Chrome yellow, 107
- Clips, 97
- Coach of Lord Chancellor of Ireland, 12
- Coach operatives, 142
- Colour, principles of, 102
- Colours, 107
- Colouring of the body, 116
- „ carriage parts, 117
- Combustion, principles of, 100
- Complementary colours, 103
- Compound colours, 108
- Constructing a wheel, 57
- Crests, to paint, 127
- Curricle, 14
- Deal, 31
- Difficulty of making light carriage wheels, 60
- Disadvantages in making wheels, 66
- Directions for keeping carriage clean, 183
- Dog-carts, 16
- Door fall, 134
- Double-elbow spring, 87
- Double brougham, 140
- Drawing instruments, 22
- Draught, preparation of, 25
- „ opinions on, 150
- Droitska or Droskey, 18
- Dropping of felloes, 61
- Egyptian chariots, 4
- Egyptians, and introduction of wheels, 3
- Elliptic springs, 87
- „ „ invention of, 13
- „ „ weight of, 89
- Elm, 30
- Faggoting iron axles, 71
- Felloes, number in a wheel, 56
- Felloes, fitting, 60
- „ connecting, 61
- First carriages, 8
- „ coach in England, 9
- Filling up, 112
- „ permanent wood, 113
- Fitting hot iron to woodwork, 45
- Flat tints, 104
- Flying coach, 11
- Fore axletree bed, 51
- Fore-carriage light, 94
- „ with open futchells, 95
- „ for hard service, 95
- Futchells, 51, 92
- Gigs for travellers, 17
- Glue, 46
- „ waterproof, 47
- Grinding colours, 119
- Hackney coaches first used, 19
- Hair, 33
- Hansom cab, 20
- Hardening springs, 83
- Heraldic bearings, to paint, 127
- Hobson’s improvements, 16
- Hoops, 97
- Hides, 31
- Horse litter, 7
- Indian red, 107
- Indian coach-building, 155
- Initial letters, to paint, 125
- Invention, remarks on, 168
- Iron, 33
- „ weight of round, 80
- „ „ square, 81
- Jacks, 98
- Japanners’ gold size, 110
- Joints, 98
- Lamps, 99
- Landaus, 12, 28
- Landaulets, 12, 13
- Landau back, quarter, and fall, 133
- Lancewood, 31
- Leather, laying on, 14
- „ parts, priming, 112
- Length of front and hind axletree, 148
- Leverage power of a wheel, 149
- Lining and trimming, 132
- Locking, the theory of, 91
- Loops, 96
- Machinery, 148
- Mahogany, 30
- Marking out the stuff, 43
- McNeile’s patent wheel, 65
- Materials used in coach-building, 29
- Mathematical instruments, 25
- “Middling” springs, 83
- Monograms, to paint, 123
- Morocco, 32
- Mortises in stock, 58
- Nutcracker spring, 87
- Oak, 30
- Offord’s brougham, 151
- Oil, its use as a lubricant, 74
- „ linseed, 109
- Omnibus, first, 21
- Opposition to coaches, 10
- Origin of word coach, 1
- Ornamental painting, 123
- Oxidation of iron, to prevent, 85
- Painting, 102
- Painting the coach, 110
- Painting the carriage part, 115
- Paint shop, 105
- Panels, to bend, 44
- Persian chariots, 5
- Perches, 52
- Plates, 97
- Pompeian wheels, 6
- Pony phaeton, 17
- Priming, or “slushing,” 110
- Principles of combustion, 100
- Public carriages, 19
- Putting on the tire, 61
- Puttying, 113
- Queen Elizabeth’s coach, 9
- Raw umber, 108
- Remarks on the trade, 142
- Remarks on keeping carriages, 178
- Roman chariots, 5
- Rough stuff, 111
- Rubbing down, 114
- Rust, to guard against, 98
- Sand-papering, 114
- Scythian chariots, 5
- Sedans, 10
- Setting axles, 78
- „ and tempering old springs, 86
- Short and easy turning, 90
- Shackles, 98
- Side-cant, 41
- Single-elbow spring, 87
- Skins, 32
- Skeleton boot, 153
- Slushing, 110
- Solid centre wheel, 65
- Splinter-bar, rule for, 38
- Spokes, driving in, 58
- Springs, various substances used for, 82
- „ their manufacture, 83
- „ hardening, 83
- „ middling, 83
- „ setting, 84
- „ spiral, 85
- „ tempering, 83
- Stanhope, 15
- Stage coaches in 1755, 19
- Stays, 97
- Steel, 34
- Steps, 98
- Straining drawing paper, 23
- Stock, improved form of, 69
- Striping colours, 118
- Sway-bar, 51
- Tandem-carts, 16
- Taste, observations on, 161
- Telegraph spring, 87
- Templates, or patterns, 43
- Tempering springs, 83
- Tenons on spokes, 58
- „ „ opinions on, 59
- Tilbury, 15
- Timber, its seasoning, 39
- Tire, putting on, 61
- „ to take out imperfections in, 64
- „ welding, 63
- Training of apprentices on the Continent, 143
- Treads, 98
- Trimming doors, 135
- „ general directions, 136
- Turn-under, 41
- Ultramarine blue, 108
- Use of cars prohibited, 9
- Varieties of springs, 86
- Varnish, 110
- Varnish, irregularities in, 120
- Varnishing a body, 116
- Verdigris, 108
- Welding tire, 63
- Welding steel axles, 76
- Weight of elliptic springs, 89
- „ round iron, 80
- Weight of square iron, 81
- Wheels, Pompeian, 6
- „ advantages and disadvantages of dishing, 56
- „ to construct, 57
- „ dishing of, 36
- „ early examples, 54
- „ extreme sizes, 55
- „ in seventeenth century, 55
- „ height of, 35
- „ size of hind, 56
- Wheel-plates and fore-carriages, 90
- Whip spring, 86
- Wool, 33
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