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Identifier: treatiseoncarria01felt (find matches)
Title: A treatise on carriages : comprehending coaches, chariots, phaetons, curricles, whiskies, &c. : together with their proper harness, in which the fair prices of every article are accurately stated
Year: 1796 (1790s)
Authors: Felton, William Debrett, John, d. 1822
Subjects: Carriage and wagon making Carriages and carts
Publisher: London : Printed for and sold by the author, and by J. Debrett ... (and 5 others)
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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ftays; the infides prepared for thelining, and the framings moulded the fame as onthe other bodies. No leather is wanting, exceptto the fword-cafe, and the real or fham doors,which, like the quarters of a coach, may be eitherleathered or pannelled. This being confidered avule, the different methods of finifliing may be D 3 knownjj 38 THE VALUE OF BODIES. known, by referring to the feparate chapters onlining, painting, plating, heads, wings, knee-flaps. Sec. £ s. d.A ftep-piece, or half-ftiaped body — — 8 lo o A gig body, which hangs from the pillars — 700 A common bell, or tub bottom (haped chaife, which hangs from the bottom corners — 6100 A grafshopper or three quarter pannel chaife body 660 A whiflcey or chair body — 5 5 ^ Doors to open on the fides to either of thofe bodies 200 Sham doors to the fides of either — — o 15 o A fwor.d-cafe, or boodge, to any of them — 1100A drop feat-box to any of the half-panncl bodies, fixed on the feat-rail —— —— 076 CHAP.
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FOUR-WHEELED C.^/?J27^G£^. 39 CHAP. III. FOUR-WHEELED CARRIAGES. THOUGH, as before obferved, by the termCarriage is generally underftood a car-riage complete, yet its meaning is frequentlyconfined to the under part only, on which thebody is placed. It is the carriage which bearsthe ftrefs of the whole machine, and much de-pends on its fufficiency. It fhould be well pro-portioned in its ftrength, according to the weightit is meant to fupport, always allowing rather anover proportion, than running the rifk of acci-dents. A proper application of the iron-work,to fupport the preffure, is a material thing to beattended to ; and great care fhould be taken thatno flaws be permitted to pafs. The timbers,which are of afh, fhould be of young trees of theflrongeft kind, free from all kinds of knots, andperfe6lly feafoned before ufed; and, as manyparts of the framing are obliged to be curved, itis heft to feleft fuch timbers as are grown to thefhape. D 4 The 40 FOUR - WHEELED CARRIAGES. The work

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