Harper's boating book for boys; a guide to motor boating, sailing, canoeing and rowing (1912)
Davis, Charles G. (Charles Gerard), 1870-1959, ed · New York, London, Harper & Brothers · leaf 60
They are joinedtogether by the axle, which should be about the thicknessof a lead-pencil and half an inch longer than the width ofthe boat, to prevent the wheels catching on the sides ofthe boat as they revolve. To fasten the paddle-wheels on the axle, drive a smallfinishing nail through one… … HOW TO MAKE A TOY STEAMBOAT with their heads filed off, bent like a horseshoe, and placedover the axle and driven into the boat. The cabin is madeof white cardboard, measuring, when extended out beforebeing bent, about twenty inches; the sides are seven incheslong and one and a half inches high.…
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