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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.

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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.

Name: 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.
Author: Burgess, James W.

Burgess, James W.

Carriage and wagon making; Carriages and carts

CHAPTER IV.—POINTS TO BE CONSIDERED BEFORE COMMENCING
      THE CONSTRUCTION OF A CARRIAGE.—COMPONENT PARTS
      OF THE BODY.—SMITH’S WORK.—GLUE                               35

  CHAPTER V.—PARTS COMPOSING THE UNDER-CARRIAGE.—FRAMING
      THEM TOGETHER.—WROUGHT-IRON PERCHES.—BRAKES                   48

  CHAPTER VI.—WHEELS                                                54

  CHAPTER VII.—AXLES                                                70

  CHAPTER VIII.—SPRINGS                                             82

  CHAPTER IX.—WHEEL-PLATES AND FORE-CARRIAGES                       90

  CHAPTER X.—IRON AND METAL-WORK GENERALLY.—LAMPS.—PRINCIPLES
      OF COMBUSTION                                                 96

  CHAPTER XI.—PAINTING                                             102

  CHAPTER XII.—ORNAMENTAL PAINTING                                 123

  CHAPTER XIII.—LINING AND TRIMMING                                132

  CHAPTER XIV.—GENERAL REMARKS ON THE COACH-BUILDING
      TRADE                                                        142

  CHAPTER XV.—INVENTION                                            168

  CHAPTER XVI.—REMARKS ON KEEPING CARRIAGES                        178




                         A PRACTICAL TREATISE

                                  ON

                           COACH-BUILDING.




                             CHAPTER I.

  GENERAL HISTORY.

The origin of the word coach has not yet been accurately determined.
Menage says it is taken from the Latin _vehiculum_, which most
people will take the liberty of doubting; Wachten, from the German
_kutten_, to cover; Lye, from the Belgic _koetsen_, to lie along,
or, as it really means, a couch or chair; it has also been tried to
prove that the word is of Hungarian origin, and that it took its
name from _Kotsee_, the old name of the province of Wiesellung,
where various kinds of carriages were made; and in Beckmann’s
“History of Inventions” it is mentioned that “when the Archbishop
received certain intelligence that the Turks had entered Hungary,
not contented with informing the king by letter, he speedily got
into one of those light carriages of the place they call _kotcze_,
and hastened to his majesty.” This, in addition to the fact that
some years previously the King of Hungary presented to the Queen of
Bohemia a vehicle that excited great wonder and admiration, by reason
of its trembling (_branlant_), showing clearly that it must have been
suspended, is strongly in favour of the Hungarian coachmakers; but
we must leave it to the philologists to determine the exact truth,
for what with the _caroche_ of France, the _caroce_ of Italy, the
_carri-coche_ of Spain, and our own coach, the head gets somewhat
bewildered, and is fain to take refuge in the simple _carruca_ of
ancient Rome, from which these appellations most probably had their
rise. In any case the honour must be a divided one, as the _caretta_,

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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.

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