Carriages & coaches : their history & their evolution (1912)
Straus, Ralph, 1882-1950 · London : Martin Secker · leaf 166
from thence : it isin all points different from any machine I have everseen : it goes on two wheels, carries one person, and islight enough. As for its performance, though it hangsnot on braces, yet it is easier than the common coach,both in the highway, in ploughed fields, cross theridges,… … •-1 CO O * (Si SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY INNOVATIONS 143 the superficies, without danger of overturning. Wechose all the irregular banks, the sides of ditches torun over ; and I have this day seen it, at five severaltimes, turn over and over ; that is, the wheels so over-turned as that their spokes laid…
Horses · Carriages and carts
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