IMPROVE- MENTS IN OMNIBUSES AND OTHER CARRIAGES
Year: 1862

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Bush at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 1st January
1862.
I, WILLIAM BUSH, of Tower Hill, in the County of Middlesex, Civil
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN OMNIBUSES AND OTHER CARRIAGES," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in constructing omnibuses and other carriages with
parts thereof double, so that the bottom, sides, and top may, when required,
be drawn out, and afford increased accommodation. An ordinary omnibus,
for instance, is built to hold twelve persons inside; now, by my Invention, I
propose that, when required, it shall contain twenty persons inside. The fore
part of the carriage is immovable, but all that part commencing just in front
of the hind wheels, together with the hind wheels and axle, are capable of
being drawn, say, six feet from the fixed part, the space being cccupied by
duplicate parts, over which the parts of the carriage drawn out have been
made to slide. The Invention applies also to vans and other long-bodied
carriages.
My Invention also consists in constructing trucks and carriages in such
manner that they may be used on rail or tram ways and on common roads.
For this purpose I fit a plate or plates under the fore part of the truck or
carriage free to turn upon a pivot, and I connect the front axle and wheels to
this plate. If travelling upon a rail or tram way, I bolt the plate so as

page_text: to prevent it moving, but when the carriage is to run upon ordinary roads I
release the bolts, when the plate and "fore carriage" are free to move about
the pivot, and thus allow of the whole carriage turning. The wheels are such
as will travel upon rails or trams, as well as upon common roads.

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Bush at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 1st January
1862.
I, WILLIAM BUSH, of Tower Hill, in the County of Middlesex, Civil
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN OMNIBUSES AND OTHER CARRIAGES," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in constructing omnibuses and other carriages with
parts thereof double, so that the bottom, sides, and top may, when required,
be drawn out, and afford increased accommodation. An ordinary omnibus,
for instance, is built to hold twelve persons inside; now, by my Invention, I
propose that, when required, it shall contain twenty persons inside. The fore
part of the carriage is immovable, but all that part commencing just in front
of the hind wheels, together with the hind wheels and axle, are capable of
being drawn, say, six feet from the fixed part, the space being occupied by
duplicate parts, over which the parts of the carriage drawn out have been
made to slide. The Invention applies also to vans and other long-bodied
carriages.
My Invention also consists in constructing trucks and carriages in such
manner that they may be used on rail or tram ways and on common roads.
For this purpose I fit a plate or plates under the fore part of the truck or
carriage free to turn upon a pivot, and I connect the front axle and wheels to
this plate. If travelling upon a rail or tram way, I bolt the plate so as

page_text: to prevent it moving, but when the carriage is to run upon ordinary roads I
release the bolts, when the plate and "fore carriage" are free to move about
the pivot, and thus allow of the whole carriage turning. The wheels are such
as will travel upon rails or trams, as well as upon common roads.