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 76
ater durability would be in-sured. A thoughtful inventor, turning over these things in hismind, has, during the last few years, produced a wheel ofnovel construction, which is found practically to be superiorto the one in common use. All the spokes, instead of beingshouldered down to enter the… … Fig. 16. Fig. 17. spokes, which, as they converge towards the centre, pressupon each other in such a manner that when the wholeperiphery is put together a solid centre is produced by thespokes themselves, as shown in Figs. 16 and 17 ; so that insteadof being dependent on wooden stocks the spokes…
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