A practical treatise on coach-building historical and descriptive : $b Containing full information of the various trades and processes involved, with hints on the proper keeping of carriages, &c.Burgess, James W.
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A practical treatise on coach-building historical and descriptive : $b Containing full information of the various trades and processes involved, with hints on the proper keeping of carriages, &c.
Burgess, James W.
Carriage and wagon making; Carriages and carts
settled on the various heights and sizes, and can be inked in with
Indian ink. The dotted lines, being merely constructional, are rubbed
out when the drawing is inked in. To complete the drawing, the spokes
of the wheels must be shown. These should be neither too many nor too
few, but there is no rule which regulates their number, except that
there should be two to each felloe. Having inked the parts in and
cleaned the pencil lines off, the drawing is ready to be coloured.
The colours applied to the drawing are the same as will be used for
painting the carriage, so we shall not detail them here.
From this drawing is constructed the full-size draught, which is
prepared before a tool is touched. On the walls of the body-making
shop are large black-boards, 10 or 12 feet square, and on these the
draughts are prepared just in the same way as described for the scale
drawing, except that all the heights are marked up a vertical line
which runs through the centre of the doorway, and from this the
various widths are also set off. This and the ground line are the
first two lines drawn, and it is imperative that they should make
a perfect right angle with each other, otherwise the draught will
not be true, and the material worked from it will be wasted. This
full-sized draught requires the greatest care in preparation, as all
the patterns to which the materials are cut or shaped are taken from
it, even to the smallest parts.
[Illustration: Fig. 8.—Brougham with Cant-Board. S, Standing pillar
(developed). B, Bottom bar. R, Rocker. L, Seat.]
The full-size draught also differs from the scale draught, inasmuch
as all the details of the construction of the vehicle are shown as
in the accompanying cut (Fig. 8), which shows the construction of a
small doctor’s brougham, and Fig. 9, which shows the construction
of a landau. This latter is a representation of the working draught
for the vehicle, and, in fact, is a reduced copy of what would be
drawn upon the black-board in the shop, except that some of the minor
details are omitted to avoid confusion.
[Illustration: Fig. 9.—Landau.]
CHAPTER III.
VARIOUS MATERIALS USED IN COACH-BUILDING.
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, whalebone, ivory, &c.; iron,
steel, copper, brass, lead, tin, glass, &c.
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