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 79
in form andquality, and moreover, accurately circular, which very oftenthey are not at present. All the machines*should be workedby a steam engine. There is scarcely any article of manu-facture for which there is so large a demand, and there is nogreat variation in their mode of construction.… … The above remarks may be qualified by stating that someof the largest manufacturers have introduced machinery,generall}, into the departments in which it is applicable, and more particularly in thewheelwrights department.Some years since Messrs.Holmes, of Derby, hadmechanical appliancesworked by…
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