CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS ON STAGE COACHES AND OTHER DESCRIPTION OF CARRIAGES
Year: 1819

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME; I, EDWARD
WALL, of Minchinhampton, in the County of Gloucester, Gentleman, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Eighteenth day of May,
in the fifty-ninth year of. His reign, give and grant unto me, the said Edward
Wall, my exors, admors, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole
privilege and authority, that I, the said Edward Wall, my exors, admors, and
assigns, should and lawfully might, during the term of years therein. men-
tioned, make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town
of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS ON STAGE
COACHES AND OTHER DESCRIPTION OF CARRIAGES;" in which said Letters Patent
there is contained a proviso that if I, the said Edward Wall, should not parti
cularly describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under my
hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court
of Chancery within two calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties.
and privileges whatsoever thereby granted, shall utterly cease, determine,
and become void, as in and by the same (relation being thereunto had) may
more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Edward Wall, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly described
and ascertained in and by the Drawings hereunto annexed, and the following
description thereof (that is to say):-
That my said Invention doth consist in an improved carriage body, so
arranged that there are two compartments for inside passengers at a distance
from each other, and separated by a central luggage box or basket, or a seat
or seats for outside passengers, either, or both, or all, in order to distribute the
load more advantageously than has before been done over the springs, axles,
and carriage. And a carriage body, where two compartments for inside
passengers are at a distance from each other and separated by a luggage box
or a basket or a seat or seats for outside passengers, either or both or all being
entirely new and an Invention of my own, I am desirous to maintain this my
exclusive right and privilege.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
B is one
Figure 1 represents an elevation of the body. A is the boot.
compartment for inside passengers, and may be made with the door to open
from either side, or for the passengers to sit facing or back to the horses. C.is
the central luggage box, which separates the compartment B from D, and
which opens with a door at either or both sides or at the top. D is another
compartment for inside passengers, and which also may be made for the
passengers to sit facing or back to the horses, and with the door to open
either at the sides or the hinder part of the compartment. a, b, c, d, are
four carved or other blocks, to receive the springs when the body is hung on
telegraph springs, or what are sometimes called cross springs; but as this
body is applicable to any kind of springs or carriage these blocks may or may
*not be necessary.
In the Drawing annexed the axle of the fore wheels falls
under the centre between the blocks a and b, and the: axle of the hind wheels
under the center between the blocks c and d, but the position of the axles
will admit of variation.
Fig. 2 is a plan of the new-invented body, or rather a bird's-eye view
⚫ of it.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Wall, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and nineteen.
EDWARD (L.S.)
WALL

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Seventeenth day of July, in the
year of our Lord 1819, the aforesaid Edward Wall came before our said
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above
written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according to the
tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Seventeenth day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and nineteen.