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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