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A practical treatise on coach-building, historical and descriptive : containing full information on the various trades and processes involved, with hints on the proper keeping of carriages, &c. (1881)

Burgess, James W · London : Crosby Lockwood and Co. · leaf 102

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that when the wheel is onhalf lock the back part of it will come in contact with thearch, and that when on full lock it will have travelled rightaway from it. It follows, therefore, that if we want to findout the right position for the perch bolt to occupy, we mustnot measure the circle the wheel… … Fig. 28. 92 COACH-BUILDTNG. position of the perch bolt, or centre point on which thewheels lock round, need not be, and in fact very rarely is, inthe same vertical line as the axletree. By compassing thebeds or timbers on which the fore part of the body rests andthrough which the perch bolt passes,…

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