• 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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