. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. fort, they being loo heavy and requiring large horses for the shafts. . ." 'â¢' Another communication from Morris slates ttiat he ''dispalched fifty-two waggons from this town, each carrying fifty bushels of grain, one half oats llie other Indian ; "" This makes a load of about 2,200 pounds, â¢'' quite in agreement with the statement in the Gentlemen's Magazine of August 1755, that loads were commonly around one ton. A load of one ton is small in comparison to those hauled bv later wacions that sometimes carried as
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. fort, they being loo heavy and requiring large horses for the shafts. . ." 'â¢' Another communication from Morris slates ttiat he ''dispalched fifty-two waggons from this town, each carrying fifty bushels of grain, one half oats llie other Indian ; "" This makes a load of about 2,200 pounds, â¢'' quite in agreement with the statement in the Gentlemen's Magazine of August 1755, that loads were commonly around one ton. A load of one ton is small in comparison to those hauled bv later wacions that sometimes carried as much as five or even six tons. An approximate description of the size of the wagon. taken from the earliest existing speciinens of the same type shows a bed about 12 feet long on the bottom and 14 feet on the top. Depth of the bed ran about '" Orme's Journal, in Sargont, op. cil. (footnote 2), pp. 331-32. English wagons were equipped witli pairs of shafts, similar to those of a spring wagon or buggy of recent times. Wagon shafts were, however, much heavier than the latter. 2" Pennsylvania Archives, ser. 4, vol. 2, Morris to Braddock, June 12, 1755. â ' R. Moore, The universal assistant, p. 205, New York, n. d. The weight of corn is given at 56 pounds per bushel, and oats at 32 pounds per bushel. Figure 6.âRestored Freight-Carrying Conestoga VV^^GON, about 1830, in the collection of the author. The tongue is not full length. {Photo by the author.) ?>2 inches and the width was approxiinately 42 to 46 inches. Though there was little standardization in most features, eight bows usually supported the dull white homespun co\er. The diameter of the front wheels \aried from 40 to 45 inches, while the rear wheels ran 10 to 20 inches larger.^' For a 1759 expedition it was recommended that wagon accessories include drag chains, grass cutting knives, axes, shovels, tar buckets (for lubricating axles), jacks, hobbles, and extra sets of such items as clouts (axle-bearing p
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