NEW AND ORIGINAL INVENTION IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE BODY AND CARRIAGE OF A STAGE OR OTHER COACH, BY PLACING A CERTAIN PROPORTION OF THE OUTSIDE PASSENGERS IN THE CENTRE OF THE CARRIAGE AND A PROPORTION OF THE LUGGAGE UNDER THE SAME, PRODUCING THEREBY SAFETY TO THE COACH AND CONVENIENCE TO THE PASSENGERS
Year: 1821

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
NEWMAN, of Brighton, in the County of Sussex, Coach Master, sends greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Seventeenth day of July, in the second year of His reign, did, for
Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant. unto me, the said Charles'
Newman, His special licence that I, the said Charles Newman, my exors,
adiiors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Charles Newman, my
exors, adiñors, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from
time to time and at all times during the term of years therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England and
Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my "NEW AND ORIGINAL INVEN-
TION IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE BODY AND CARRIAGE OF A STAGE OR OTHER COACH,
BY PLACING A CERTAIN PROPORTION OF THE OUTSIDE PASSENGERS IN THE CENTRE OF
THE CARRIAGE AND A PROPORTION OF THE LUGGAGE UNDER THE SAME, PRODUCING
THEREBY SAFETY TO THE COACH AND CONVENIENCE TO THE PASSENGERS;" in which
said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso, obliging me, the said Charles'
Newman, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, particularly to
describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, and to cause the same to be inrolled in His
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within two calendar months next and

page_text: immediately next and immediately after the date of the said recited Letters
Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully
and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Charles Newman, do hereby declare that the nature of my said new and
original Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed,
consists of such parts as are described and ascertained in the plan drawn
at the top of these Presents, and the following explanation thereof, that is
to say:
That by the present construction of stage coaches the greater part of the
luggage and the whole of the outside passengers are placed on the roof or
nearly level with it, which frequently occasions many accidents by being top-
heavy.
My improvement in stage coaches is to do away with the necessity of
carrying either luggage or passengers on the roof, and to provide for the out-
side passengers a comfortable and convenient seat in the form of a barouche
attached to the back part of the body which contains the inside passengers, in
a large roomy body more comfortable than any stage coach ever offered to the
notice of the publie; and by placing the greater number of persons as well as
the luggage on the higher wheels, with the wheels the usual width on the
ground, this coach is enable to travel safer than any other coach; and the
following is a full description of my improvements as applicable to stage
coaches, viz: :-
No. 1 on the plan is the coachman's seat, with room for one outside
passenger besides the coachman.
No. 2, a small boot for luggage.
No. 3, a full-sized roomy body to carry four inside passengers, with steps to
fold over the forewheels, which renders the getting in and out easy, and not
liable of dirting the passengers' cloathes.
No. 4, a complete barouche body to contain eight persons, enclosed with
folding doors and steps. These seats are in every respect as comfortable as
the inside of any coach, and perfectly safe for the infant and infirm.
No. 5, a step to get in, which totally prevents the common unpleasant
necessity of climbing over the wheels.
No. 6 is the luggage box, which opens from the back part, and is capable
of containing more luggage than can possibly be carried in any other form,
being under the whole of the barouche No. 4, and being under cover, lock
and key, free from wet or damage, and nearest to the ground, serves to keep
the carriage upon a level.

page_text: No. 7 is a dickey seat, to hold three passengers, upon a level with the
driving box.
No. 8 is a back view of the carriage.
And I do hereby declare that though I conceive myself to have been the
sole and only Inventor of the safety coach, that such is not what I call the
principle of my present Invention; but that the construction of the several
parts combined together, the improvement in carrying passengers and luggage,
both with safety, in not upsetting the carriage by being top-heavy; and I do
declare that I do not make claim to several parts of the carriage separately;
but my Invention consist in them jointly and in their junction.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Newman, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Thirteenth day of August, One thousand eight
hundred and twenty-one.
H
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Thirteenth day of August, in
the year of our Lord 1821, the aforesaid Charles Newman came before our
said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, 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.
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