IMPROVEMENTS IN LANDAUS OR SUCH LIKE CARRIAGES
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Benjamin Thomas Newnham, of the City of
Bath, Carriage Builder, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
LANDAUS OR SUCH LIKE CARRIAGES."
Sealed the 23rd October 1874, and dated the 30th April 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Benjamin Thomas
Newnham at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 30th April 1874.
I, BENJAMIN THOMAS NEWNHAM, of the City of Bath, Carriage
Builder, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN LANDAUS OR SUCH LIKE CARRIAGES," to be as follows:-
The object of the Invention is to obtain a landau or such like carriage
with a roomy body adapted to carry four persons inside, two on the back
and two on the front inside seats, but which for the purpose of light
draught for one horse shall have the front and hind wheels brought
considerably nearer together than can be accomplished in such like
carriages as at present arranged.

page_text: In carrying out my Invention the back part of the body from the door
is extended backwards and rests over the hind axle, and the back seat is
carried back correspondingly, so that the front edge of it in place of
coming forward to about a line with the door is consequently much
behind that line, whilst the extent of the part of the body in front of the
door is proportionately reduced, and the front or outer line of the front
seat extends towards the back of the body to a line towards the middle
of the doorway, but is formed with rounded ends to facilitate ingress and
egress.
The lower part of the doors and the pillars at the hinge side are formed
inclined, so that the doors are considerably narrower at the lower than
at the upper parts of them to prevent injury to the hind wheels; and in
order to afford increased depth of room for the glass to such door the
inclined portion of the door is formed open or slotted to allow one corner
of the frame of the glass to pass into and even through it into a suitably
formed recess in the standing pillar of the body.
The front part of the folding head may when folded be received in part
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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent
filed by the said Benjamin Thomas Newnham in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 29th October 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, BENJAMIN
THOMAS NEWNHAM, of the City of Bath, Carriage Builder, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirtieth day of April, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-seventh
year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me; the said Benjamin Thomas Newnham, Her special license
that I, the said Benjamin Thomas Newnham, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Benjamin Thomas Newnham, 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

page_text: vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
LANDAUS OR SUCH LIKE CARRIAGES," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Benjamin Thomas Newnham, my executors or admini-
strators, 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 Benjamin Thomas Newnham, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement thereof, that is to say :—
The object of the Invention is to obtain a landau or such like carriage
with a roomy body adapted to carry four persons inside, two on the back
and two on the front inside seats, but which for the purpose of light
draught for one horse shall have the front and hind wheels brought
considerably nearer together than can be accomplished in such like
carriages as at present arranged.
But that the Invention may be more fully understood I will by the