MAKING A COACH, CHARIOT, LANDAU, BERLIN, PHETON, POST CHAISE, ONE HORSE CHAISE, AND CARAVAN, UPON A NEW CON- STRUCTION, THE BODIES OF WHICH CANNOT OVERTURN, AND WHICH IN OTHER RESPECTS ARE MORE SAFE AND CONVENIENT FOR TRAVELLING THAN ANY CARRIAGE NOW IN USE
Year: 1792

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
MARCH, of Knightsbridge, in the Parish of Saint Margaret, Westminster,
in the County of Middlesex, Surgeon Dentist, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Twenty-fifth day of May, in the thirty-second year of His reign,
did give and grant unto me, the said John March, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, His especial licence, that I, the said John March, during
the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within that part of His said Majesty's Kingdom of Great
Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed, my Invention of "MAKING A COACH, CHARIOT, LANDAU, BERLIN,
PHETON, POST CHAISE, ONE HORSE CHAISE, AND CARAVAN, UPON A NEW CON-
STRUCTION, THE BODIES OF WHICH CANNOT OVERTURN, AND WHICH IN OTHER RESPECTS
ARE MORE SAFE AND CONVENIENT FOR TRAVELLING THAN ANY CARRIAGE NOW IN
USE;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso obliging me, the
said John March, under my hand and seal, to cause a particular description
of the nature of my said Invention, and how the same is to be performed,
to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one calendar
month next and immediately after the date of the said in part recited Letters
Patent, as in and by the same, rélation being thereunto had, may more fully
and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
John March, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said Inven-

page_text: tion, and declare that the same is composed of the particulars in the two
several Plans thereof hereto annexed and herein-after described :-
Plan the First being the elevation of an inversable chariot, with the follow-
ing references:-A, B, the centrical suspension. C, the springs upon which
the carriage is hung. D, the futchell fixed to the axletree, which turns upon a
wheel plate, and is joined to the perch bolt by means of the transum E, the
drag staffs turning on any side in different directions. F, the body of the
carriage. G, the perch bolt. FI, two springs with rolers to keep the body
of the carriage in equilibrium. I, the coachman's seat on springs. Kare
Janthorns turning to right and left, and fixed without straps. L, the footman's
clastic board upon springs, the same as the coachman's seat. Maro orna-
ments to hide the wheel boxes, which boxes are described in the Second
Plan. N are cushions in the interior part of the body, fastened by means of
hooks and straps fixed both in the front and sides, to lean on.
Plan the Second, with references:-A, the axletree and perch bolt of iron,
all in one piece. B, a groove in the axletree to let in an iron futchell.
C, the arm of the axletree, with box for the wheels, and a screw bolt which
fixes the box and the wheel to the arm of the axletree, which boxes are
made hollow, and turn round the arm of the axletree and through the holes
of the screw bolt; the wheels are supplied with oil, without there ever being
occasion to take them off. D, the dolphin which supports the moving rolers
of the scape, to let off the horses from the splinter bar, which is done by
means of a string carried through from the dolphin to the interior part of the
carriage. E, the scape at the end of the pole, when the horses are loose
from the splinter bar. F is a scape for two foremost horses when the car-
ringe is driven with four, which are likewise lot loose from the carriage by
means of another string, also carried into the interior part of the carriage.
G is a drag shoo fixed to the wheel when going down hill, and which can
never quit the wheel. H is a swivel or drag chain belonging to the drag
shoe, to be used in case tho drag shoe should break. I, a scape for the
traces of the foremost horses when the splinters are not used. K are joints
playing on all sides, on which the body of the carriage nets, one of which
joints is fixed to the foremost spring and the other to the centrical bar of
suspension. L are locks for the coach doors. M is a chain to fix the trunk
to the carriage, one end of which is fastened to the footman's step, and the
other end is carried over the trunk and screwed on the opposite side on a
nut. N, a spring seat for the inside of the carriage, which is much easier
than the common seats. O and P are sents withinside tho carriage, together
with a drop table. Q, a lanthorn, with its socket turning from right to left,

page_text: made so as to light as well within the carriage as without, by means of thick
glasses in the back part of the lanthorn. R, the footboard upon a spring,
with the profile thereof. S, the steps of the carriage, with a hinge-stay
falling with them and bearing against the crane, which provents the carriage
from making any angle when getting into it. T, the front of the imperials,
which are fixed upon the carriage by means of a single screw bolt that locks
the imperials, and at the same time fasten it to the roof of the body, together
with the form of the upper and under part of the imperial.
In witness whereof, I, the said John March, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, the Twenty-first day of June, One thousand seven hundred
and ninety-tsvo
Inrolled the Twenty-second day of June, in the year above written.