. Productive horse husbandry. Horses; Horses. 290 THE HORSE IN SERVICE Very light wheels may have the spokes set in the hub in staggered fashion (Eig. 160) in order to brace the wheel against being sprung by a side thrust from either direction. Instead of being lined up in the hub every other spoke is set outside the centre of the hub, which is directly in line with the felloe, the other spokes being set inside. Thus each alternate half of the spokes braces the wheel in opposite directions. Wheeled passenger vehicles were first intro- duced into England in 1555, according to Sir AYalter Gilbey
. Productive horse husbandry. Horses; Horses. 290 THE HORSE IN SERVICE Very light wheels may have the spokes set in the hub in staggered fashion (Eig. 160) in order to brace the wheel against being sprung by a side thrust from either direction. Instead of being lined up in the hub every other spoke is set outside the centre of the hub, which is directly in line with the felloe, the other spokes being set inside. Thus each alternate half of the spokes braces the wheel in opposite directions. Wheeled passenger vehicles were first intro- duced into England in 1555, according to Sir AYalter Gilbey, and were in limited use in France a little before that time. Queen Elizabeth was the first sovereign to use a coach, it having been brought from the ISTetherlands and pre- sented to her by a Dutchman, William Boonen, who later became her coachman. This was one of the first carriages seen in England and was of most cumber- some but pretentious design (Eig. 161). Progress in carriage building was as rapid as the gradual im- FiG. 160—The staggered arrange- ment of the spokes in the Fig. 161.—One of the cumbersome and pretentious early coaches. provement of the roads would permit, and they remained in very bad condition until late in the eighteenth century. Steel springs were first used in 1670, although our buckboard idea had been represented at a much earlier time, in the way of. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Gay, Carl Warren, 1877-. Philadelphia & London, J. B. Lippincott Company
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