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 16
with brazen tyres all round, admirable to thesight. The seat was of gold hung by silver cords, the beamor pole was of silver, at the end of which were hung thegolden yoke and the golden reins/ The car was greatly used by the Romans, being adoptedfrom the one used by the Etrurians (Fig. 3), a… … %- Tig. 3.—Roman Chariot. the manner familiar tous by the remains of their pottery. A very fine copy ofone of the Roman cars is in the museum at South Kensing-ton, cast from the original in the Vatican. Herodotus (450 b.c.) mentions that the Scythians used avehicle which consisted of a rough…
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