IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF RAILWAY CARRIAGES, WAGGONS, AND TRUCKS, AND OTHER ROAD VEHICLES
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Griffith Craig, of Passage West, in the County
of Cork, in Ireland; Ship Builder, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE CONSTRUCTION OF RAILWAY CARRIAGES, WAGGONS, AND TRUCKS, AND OTHER
ROAD VEHICLES."
Sealed the 3rd April 1866, and dated the 7th October. 1865.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Griffith Craig at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
7th October 1865.
I, HENRY GRIFFITH CRAIG, of Passage West, in the County of Cork, in
Ireland, Ship Builder, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF RAILWAY CARRIAGES, WAGGONS, AND
TRUCKS, AND OTHER ROAD VEHICLES," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in the use of steel in the construction of such parts of
railway.carriages, waggons, and. trucks and other road vehicles as are at present
made of wood, iron, or other materials. Thus, I would construct the bodies,
panels, seats, frames, and such other part of railway carriages, waggons, and
trucks, and other road vehicles as are now made of wood or iron, or other
materials, of steel, whereby economy and lightness in construction is effected.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Henry Griffith Graig in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
4th-April 1866.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL (COME, 'I, HENRY
GRIFFITH CRAIG, of Passage West, in the County of Cork, in Ireland, Ship
Builder, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, "by Her 'Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventh day of October, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, -in the -twenty-ninth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Henry Griffith Craig, Her special licence that I, the said Henry Griffith
Craig, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Henry Griffith Craig, 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 "IMPROVE-
'MENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF RAILWAY CARRIAGES, WAGGONS, AND-TRUCKS, AND
OTHER ROAD VEHICLES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Henry Griffith Craig, 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 Henry Griffith Craig, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement-:-
My Invention consists in the use of steel in the construction of such parts
of railway carriages, waggons, and trucks, and other road vehicles as are at
present made of wood, iron, or other materials. Thus, I would construct the
bodies, panels, seats,-frames, and such other parts of railway carriages, waggons,
and trucks, and other-road vehicles as are now made of wood, or.iron, or other
materials, of steel, whereby economy and lightness in construction is effected.
In order fully to explain the nature and principle of my said Invention
I shall proceed to describe the same more particularly.
Besides the vehicles already named, the use of steel in the construction of

page_text: such parts of vehicles as have not already been made of steel, which constitutes
my Invention, may be applied to the manufacture of the various parts of
ordinary road vehicles or carriages, such as omnibuses, carts, waggons, cabs,
broughams, sociables, or chariots. Steel in sheets or plates so applied must
be secured by bolts, screws, or otherwise, the various parts being placed and
fitted to each other by planing, and by other process known in the manu-
facture of steel articles.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I claim the "Improvements in the
Construction of Railway Carriages, Waggons, and Trucks, and other Road
Vehicles," by the use and application of steel for the aforesaid purposes in the
manner herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Griffith Craig, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twentieth day of February, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six:
HENRY GRIFFITH CRAIG. (L.B.)
Witness,
CHARLES S. BAKER,
General Patent Co Limited,
71, Fleet Street.