A STAGE COACH OR OTHER COACH OR CARRIAGE FOR THE CARRYING OF PASSENGERS, AND LIGHTER AND MORE COMMODIOUS THAN USUAL; THAT IS TO SAY, FOR THE CARRYING OF FOUR OR MORE INSIDE PASSENGERS, AND ALSO SIX, EIGHT, TEN, OF MORE OUTSIDE PASSENGERS, WITH GREATER SAFETY THAN THOSE NOW IN USE CARRYING THE SAME NUMBER OF PASSENGERS
Year: 1816

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
STEAD, of the Wicker, in the Township of Brightside Bierlow, in the Parish of
Sheffield, in the County of York, Coach Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty King George the Third, in and by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Fourteenth day of March, in the fifty-sixth year of His reign, did,
for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said John
Stead, my executors, administrators, and assigns, His especial licence, full
power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said John Stead, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, and every of them, by myself and themselves, or
by my and their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as I,
the said John Stead, my executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, and vend, within that part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland called England, the Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, my Invention or improvement of "A STAGE COACH OR OTHER COACH OR
CARRIAGE FOR THE CARRYING OF PASSENGERS, AND LIGHTER AND MORE COMMODIOUS
THAN USUAL; THAT IS TO SAY, FOR THE CARRYING OF FOUR OR MORE INSIDE
PASSENGERS, AND ALSO SIX, EIGHT, TEN, OF MORE OUTSIDE PASSENGERS, WITH
GREATER SAFETY THAN THOSE NOW IN USE CARRYING THE SAME NUMBER OF
PASSENGERS;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso,
obliging me, the said John Stead, by an instrument in writing under-my
hand and seal, particularly to describe and ascertain the nature of my said

page_text: Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, and to cause the
same to be enrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within two calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said recited Letters Patent,
as in and by the same, relation being thereunto had, may more fully and at
large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
John Stead, do hereby declare that my said Invention is described in the
manner following, that is to say :-
That the nature of my said Invention or improvement of a stage coach or
other coach or carriage for the carrying of passengers is more light and com-
modious than usual, for the carrying of four or more inside passengers, and also
six, eight, ten, or more outside passengers with greater safety than the coaches
or carriages now in use carrying the same number of passengers, and which I
describe in the manner following, that is to say:-The convenience for the
carrying of the outside passengers is fixed so much lower in the coach or carriage
than usual, that the passengers are thereby carried more safely, as the said coach
or carriage is not so liable to be so frequently overturned as others, and that the
outside passengers are only seperated from the inside passengers by the front of
the body of the coach for the inside pássengers, and, that the other parts of my
Invention aré, for the loading and unloading and carriage of luggage in the
lockers under the seats affixed for the outside passengers, and the convenience
of loading or unloading the luggage in the boot of the said coach or carriage.
The particular nature of these Inventions are ascertained by the Drawings
hereunto annexed, that is to say:
Fig. 1 therein is a section of the bottom of the, coach, or carriage, or a
profile view of the bottom thereof. a, a, the bearings for the springs.
Fig. 2 is a section of the view of the frame of the bottom of the coach
or carriage, with mortice holes for pillars. a, a, are the bearings. for springs;
c, c, c, c, are the claspses, clips, or spring fasteners; d, d, d, d, d, d, d, d, d, d, d, d,
are mortice holes for the uprights or pillars.
Eig 3 is an elevation and side view or skeleton of one half of the body of
the said coach or carriage, either with or without a door for the outside
passengers. is a seat for the inside passengers, with lockers under the same
for the carrying of luggage; m, m, m, frame of the door for the outside passen-
gers; e, e, are seats affixed across the body for the outside passengers, with
lockers under for luggage; f is a step for the convenience of the outside
passengers to get in and out, if no door in the side of the body; g, g, is the
boot for the luggage, with a door for the better convenience of stowing or
getting in or taking out luggage, as described by K, Fig. VI.

page_text: Fig. IV. is an elevated end view of the skeleton part of the inside of the
covered part of the body of the said carriage or coach for inside passengers.
h is the seat; i, i, i, are the windows thereof of the inside of the body of the said
coach or carriage.
Fig. V. is an elevated and front view of the coach or carriage box and boot
of the said coach or carriage. K is the door frame for loading and unloading
of luggage.
Fig. VI. is a side view of the carriage and body of the coach or carriage,
complete. K is the door to put luggage in and out; g, g, is the boot for
luggage; o, o, are seats for the outside passengers, with lockers underneath for
luggage; P is the door for the outside passengers.
Fig. 7 and 8 are two thick metal moulds for forming the pannels, of sheet
iron or any other metal, which is to be hammered or beaten in the said moulds,
either hot or cold, by a wooden mallet, as circumstance requires. I is the form
of the screw cramps, to hold the plates and fasten them to the moulds until
beat to its form.
Fig. 9 is an end view of part of the axletree and bed of the said coach or
carriage, to shew the improved method of oiling by a box, pipe, and grove.
L, L, L, is an oil box, pipe, and grove for admitting oil to the wheel of the
coach or carriage.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Stead, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Tenth day of May, in the fifty-sixth year of the
reign of our Sovereign Lord King George the Third, and in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixteen.
JOHN
(L.S.) STEAD.
Signed and sealed in the presence of
GEO. WHITEHEAD, 20, Chancery Lane.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Tenth day of May, in the
year above mentioned, the aforesaid John Stead came before our Lord
the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid,
and all and every thing therein contained, in form above written. And also
the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the Statute
in that case made and provided.
Inrolled the same Tenth day of May, in the year above written.