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A practical treatise on coach-building historical and descriptive

Chapter 37: INDEX.
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The text traces the historical development of wheeled vehicles and then provides practical guidance on designing and laying out full-sized working drawings. It surveys materials and details the construction of body and undercarriage components, including wheels, axles, springs, perches, and braking arrangements, with notes on smithing, metalwork, and joinery. Separate chapters address painting and ornamental decoration, lining and trimming, and the painter’s materials and techniques. Final sections discuss trade practices, invention and machinery, and offer maintenance and care advice for private owners. Illustrations accompany technical explanations to aid apprentices and practitioners.

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

THE END.


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