A NEW AND PARTICULAR CARRIAGE FOR COACHES, CHARIOTS, CHAISES, WAGGONS, AND ALL OTHER VEHICLES TO BE USED WITH FOUR OR THREE HORSES
Year: 1775

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, OWEN
O'KEEFFE, of Long Acre, in the Parish of Saint Martin in the Fields, in the
County of Middlesex, Coachmaker, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the First day of August, in the fifteenth year of His reign, did
give and grant unto me licence to make, use, exercise, and vend, within
that part of Great Britain called England, the Dominion of Wales, and Town
of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also within all His Majesty's Colonies and
Plantations abroad, my Invention of "A NEW AND PARTICULAR CARRIAGE FOR
COACHES, CHARIOTS, CHAISES, WAGGONS, AND ALL OTHER VEHICLES TO BE USED WITH
FOUR OR THREE HORSES;" in which said Letters Patent there is a provisoe
obliging me, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, to cause a
particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High
Court of Chancery within four calendar months next after the date of the
said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, relation being thereunto
had, may more fully appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said provisoe, I, the said
Owen O'Keeffe, do hereby declare that my said Invention of a Carriage for
Coaches, Chariots, Chaises, Waggons, and all manner of Vehicles to be used

page_text: with Four or Three Wheels, is made and performed in manuer following
(that is to say)-
The body of the carriage (instead of being hung with springs bolted, or
standards framed or bolted to the fore transum uniting pieces or horn bar) is
hung by springs or standards which project from the perch or shafts under the
body, so as the body may hang on stiff braces, or with shackles or iron work,
without a fore transum, or what is called an under carriage. The perch bolt
or turning plate is in the perch or center between the shafts or perches, nearly
under the fore part of the body in the carriage, with a joint or plates contrived
to let the fore wheels lock even with the side of the body, and not before the
body, as common.
In witness whereof, I, the said Owen O'Keeffe, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Thirty-first day of October, in the sixteenth year of
the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the grace of God
of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith,
and so forth, and in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred
and seventy-five.
D, Lilab
mirty-first day
October, in
the year of our Lord 1775, the aforesaid Owen O'Keeffe 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 in the sixth year of the reign of the late King
and Queen William and Mary of England, and so forth.
Inrolled the Thirty-first day of October, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and seventy-five.