IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF OMNIBUSES, RAILWAY CARRIAGES, AND OTHER VEHICLES
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Bray, of Stretford, in the County of Lancaster,
Plumber, Painter, and Glazier, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE CONSTRUCTION OF OMNIBUSES, RAILWAY CARRIAGES, AND OTHER VEHICLES."
Sealed the 25th September 1863, and dated the 1st April 1863.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Bray at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 1st April
1863.
I, JOSEPH BRAY, of Stratford, in the County of Lancaster, Plumber, Painter,
and Glazier, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF OMNIBUSES, RAILWAY CARRIAGES, AND OTHER
VEHICLES," to be as follows:-
I construct omnibuses, railway carriages, and other vehicles in the form of
two stories and make a suitable staircase either inside or outside of the carriage
to ascend to the upper story.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Joseph Bray in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 1st
October 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
5 BRAY, of Stretford, in the County of Lancaster, Plumber, Painter, and
Glazier, send greeting.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing dato the First day of April, in the year of our Lord
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-sixth year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto me, the said Joseph Bray, Her special license that I, the said
Joseph Bray, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Joseph Bray, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at
all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF OMNIBUSES, RAILWAY CARRIAGES,
AND OTHER VEHICLES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said Joseph Bray, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great
Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the
date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Joseph Bray, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement (that is to say):-
I construct omnibuses, railway carriages, and other vehicles in the form of
two storeys, and make a suitable staircase either inside or outside of the carriago
to ascend to the upper storey.
This Invention will be clearly understood by reference to the figures and
letters on the accompanying Sheet of Drawings in which Fig. 1 is a longi-
tudinal elevation, and Fig. 2 a transverse section, of one arrangement of
omnibus, and Figs. 3 and 4 similar views of another arrangement of omnibus
constructed according to my improved system of two storeys.
In Figs. 1 and 2 a reprosents the lower chamber or storey, it is divided
from the back to near the front by a partition 6 into two compartments c which
open into each other at the front end. The seats & are placed against the
partition, and the passengers may pass through or return by either compart-
ment.
At the back of the omnibus there are steps e either in the inside or outside
leading to the upper chamber or storey f having a passage in the middle and
seats at the sides and end.

page_text: In Figs. 3 and 4 the foregoing arrangements are reversed, the lower storey
or chamberg having seats at the sides, and the upper storey or chamber
having a partition in the middle with seats against it, similar to the lower
storey a, Figs. 1 and 2.
I apply this improved system of two storeys to all descriptions of omnibuses,
railway carriages, and other vehicles, and arrange the seats as desired according
to the shape and dimensions of the vehicle which may be either covered,
enclosed, or open.
Having now described my Invention I desire it to be understood that I claim
the construction of omnibuses, railway carriages, and other vehicles in the form
of two storeys, covered, enclosed, or open as herein described and illustrated in
the accompanying Sheet of Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Bray, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Thirtieth day of September, in the year of our
Lord Ono thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
Signed, sealed, and delivered by
the within-named Joseph Bray,
in the presence of
E. J. HUGHES,
Patent Agent,
Manchester.
JOSEPH BRAY. (L.B.)