The Coach-makers' illustrated hand-book

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Preface

The design of this work is to place in the hands of carriage- makers a clear, concise, and perfectly reliable book of reference, containing instructions in the most important matters connected with the four several branches of the trade..

That the book is needed by a large number of those who are working at the trade of coach-making, we have abundant evidence, and the interest that its announcement awakened furnished positive proof that its advent, or something similar to it, had been long and anxiously awaited.

• In presenting it to the trade for their patronage, we therefore have the satisfaction of feeling that we are carrying out the repeatedly expressed wishes of a number of carriage artisans, and as this is the first edition of a work of the kind published in the United States, we may lay claim to a share of the gratitude which is generally accorded to those who aim to furnish valuable information at a cheap rate.

A perusal of the book will disclose to the reader that each department's complete in itself, and arranged in the order that a carriage is carried forward in the factory thus resolving the matter in each department into the simi3lest and most convenient form that could be devised; and as an aid to the speedy finding of any article in either of the departments, a copious index is added.

Great care also has been exercised to avoid errors that would tend to mislead the student in his search after truth and safe methods of proceeding in his every-day work.

Trusting that our labor has been directed toward a good purpose, and that the " Hand Book " may dispel darkness by the introduction of light, we send it out on its mission to stand or fall on its own merits.

THE PUBLISHER.

Part I.— Wood Department

Scale Drafting and Coloring ; French or Square Rule ; Application of the Square Rule to all Styles of Carriages in general use ; Construction of Carriage Parts and Wheels ; Drawing Instruments; Scroll Patterns; Corner Bevels; Iron Planes; Round and Ribbed Boots ; Wood Carving ; Elevating Landau Seats ; Canvasing Outside, etc.

Part Ii.-smith Department

Styles and Manner of Ironing Platform and Perch Carriages; Hanging Off; Hooping Wheels ; Welding Iron and Steel ; Axle Centers ; C Springs ; Folding Steps ; Drafting Joints; Patterns for Stays; Setting Axles; Steel Axles; Tempering Springs; Weight of Springs; Axles, Iron and Steel; Making Tools, etc.

Part Iii.-paint Department

The Art of Coach Painting ; Principles of Coloring ; Complete Instructions from the Priming to the last coat of Varnish ; Designs for Monograms and Ornaments; Compounding of Colors; Causes of Varnish Pitting; Complementary Colors; Mixing Paints; Varnish Brushes; Enlarging Letters and Ornaments; Gilding; Imitation Cane Work ; Light and Ventilation ; Oil Colors ; Transparent Colors, etc.

Part Iv.-trimming Department

Illustrations of different Styles of Trimming; Instructions for Standing and Fall Top Work; Setting Bows; Quantity of Stock required ; Covering Dashes ; Cutting Stock ; Drafting Tops ; Method in the Trimming Shop ; Spring Cushions ; Softening Buggy Tops, etc.

Part V.-miscellaneous Department

Apprentices; Success in Business; System; Credit; Sharpers; Convenient Work Shops ; Order and Disorder ; Out of Work ; Competition ; Carriage Materials ; Box Wood ; Wood Engraving ; Electrotyping ; Grinding of Colors, together with items of general interest to Manufacturers and all engaged in the Carriage Business.

Part I. Wood Department

A Word on Plugs and Brads- 93

Back and Front Pillars, (Illustration).. 59

Blackboard Paint 95

Brette, {ill.) 65

Bristol Board 21

Brushes 22

Buck Board Wagon, (ilL) 82

Cant of Brette, {ill) 65

" Circular Hearse, {ill.) 63

" Coal Box Body, {ill.) 81

" Coupelette, {ill) 61

" English Phaeton, {Ul.) 70

" Five-Glass Landau, (ill) 62

" Four-in-Hand Drag, {ill.) 66

" Four-seat Phaeton, No. 1, {ill). 77

" Four-seatPhaeton,No.2, (iZZ.). 78

" French Cabriolet, {Ul) 70

" Glass Front Landau, {ill) 62

" Jump Seat Eockaway, {ill).... 79

" Landau, {ill) 56

" Landaulette, {ill) 60

" Physician's Carriage, {ill) 81

" Eockaway Landaulette, (ill)... 64

" Six-seat Extension Top, (iZZ.)" 67

" Six-seat Eockaway, zZZ.) 64

" Stanhope Buggy, (iZZ.) 80

" Victoria Phaeton, No. 3, (i«.).. 75

Canvasing Outside 94

Carriage Parts, {2 ills.) 95

Centering Square, {ill) — 103

Circular Hearse 63

Coal Box Body, {ill) 81

Corner Bevels 88

Corner Bevels, No. 1, {ill) 88

Corner Bevels, No. 2, {ill) 89

Corner Bevels No. 3, {ill) 90

Designs for Carved Body Blocks, {ill). 101

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Door Eocker,

Dotting Pen,' {ill) 21

Drawing Board 18

Drop Front, Close Top Buggy, {ill).... 26

English Phaeton, {ill) 70

Express Carriage Part (2 ills.). 98

Fastening Tacks, {ill) 21

Five-Glass Landau, {ill) 57

Folding Front Seat, {ill) 83

Four-in-hand Drag, {ill) 06

Four-seat Phaeton, {ill) 30

French Cabriolet Americanized, {ill).. 71

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INDEX.

Glass Front Landau, (ill.) 62

Glue Brush 94

How to make a cheap Glue Brush 94

How to make It 87

India Ink 21

Insertion of Screws in Wood 94

Iron Planes 93

Irregular Curves, {ill.) 19

Its advantages over the wooden plane 94

Jump Seat Rockaway, (iW.) 79

Landau, {ill.) 40,56

Landau Bows, {ill.) 86

Landaulette, {ill.) 60

Monitor Buggy, {ill.) 22

Origin and Composition 116

Panel Quarter, {ill.) 84

Parallel Ruler, {ill) 20

Pear Wood for Sweep Patterns 27

Philadelphia Ribbed Boot, {ill.) 84

Physician's Carriage, {ill) 81

Plain Dividers, {ill.) 20

Platform Carriage for pole and shafts,

Plugs and Brads 93

Portland Cutter 87

Practice with the Pen, {ill.) 25

Price of Drawing Instruments 25

Road Drawing Pen, {ill.) 19

Rockaway Landaulette, {ill.) 64

Scroll Patterns for Bar Ends, (4 ills.).. 100

Six-seat Extension Top Phaeton, {ill.) 67

Six-seat Rockaway, {ill.) 36, 64

Six-seat Sociable, {ill.) 34

Sizes for Wheels 102

Slate Finish 94

Spring Bow Pen with Pencil Point, {ill.) 19

Square Rule 42

Standing Boot Piece, {ill.) 59

Stanhope Buggy, {ill.) 80

Steel Spacing Dividers, {ill.) 19

Sweep Patterns, {ill.) 27, 28

Sweep Patterns, {Sills.) 32

The Door 63

The Draft 87

The Length of the Curb 87

The Manner of Obtaining Corner Bevels, {ill.) 88

The Plain Dividers, {ill.) 2d

The Use of Glue 93

To Imitate Mahogany 94

To Lower the Top 63

Trammel for Ovals, {ill.) 85

Triangular Scale of Boxwood, {ill.) 20

T-square, {ill.) 18

Water Colors 22

Wood Carving 99

Working Draft of Buck Board Wagon,

Working Draft of Brett, {ill.) 65

" " Circular Hearse, {ill.) 63

" Coal Box Buggy, (iK.) 81

" Coupelette, (i//.) 61

" English Phaeton, (iZZ.) 70 " " Five-Glass Landau,

Working Draft of Four-in-hand Drag,

Working Draft of Four-seat Phaeton,

Working Draft of Four-seat Phaeton,

Working Draft of French Cabriolet,

Working Draft of Glass Front Landau,

Working Draft of Jump Seat Rockaway, {ill.) 79

Working Draft of Landau, {ill.) 56

Working Draft of Landaulette, {ill.)... 60

Working Draft of Physician's Carriage, {ill.) 81

Working Draft of Rockaway Landaulette, {ill) 64

Working Draft of Six-seat Extension,

Working Draft of Six-seat Rockaway,

Working Draft of Stanhope Buggy,

Working Draft of Victoria Phaeton,

Working Draft of Victoria Phaetonj

Working Draft of Victoria Phaeton,

Working Drafts 56

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