A NEW-CONSTRUCTED COACH Box, TO BE FIXED TO THE BODIES OF COACHES, CHARIOTS, AND OTHER CARRIAGES, WHEREBY THE CARRIAGE IS RENDERED CONSIDERABLY LIGHTER TO FOLLOW THE HORSES, AND THE COACHMAN RIDES EQUALLY EASY WITH THE PASSENGERS, AND IS NO OBSTRUCTION TO THE FRONT LIGHTS
Year: 1783

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
ABERY, of Reading, in the County of Berks, Coach Maker, 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 West-
minster, the Eighth day of December, in the twenty-fourth year of His reign,
did give and. grant unto me, the said John Abery, His especial licence that I,
the said John Abery, during the term of years therein expressed, should and
lawfully might use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town
of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A NEW-CONSTRUCTED COACH Box,
TO BE FIXED TO THE BODIES OF COACHES, CHARIOTS, AND OTHER CARRIAGES, WHEREBY
THE CARRIAGE IS RENDERED CONSIDERABLY LIGHTER TO FOLLOW THE HORSES, AND THE
COACHMAN RIDES EQUALLY EASY WITH THE PASSENGERS, AND IS NO OBSTRUCTION TO THE
FRONT LIGHTS;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso
obliging me, the said John Abery, under my hand and seal, to cause a parti-
cular description of the nature of the 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 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 Abery, do hereby declare that my said New-constructed Coach Box to
be fixed to the Bodies of Coaches, Chariots, and other Carriages, whereby the
Carriage is rendered considerably lighter to follow the Horses, and the Coach-

page_text: man rides equally easy with the Passengers, and is no Obstruction to the front
Lights, is described in the Plan thereof hereunto annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Abery, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Third day of April, One thousand seven hundred and
eighty-four
DESCRIPTION of a new-constructed COACII Box, for which His Majesty's
Letters Patent were granted to John Abery, of Reading, in the County
of Berks, Coach Maker.
There is a frame of iron, as at the mark X, which is covered
with leather, and fixed on each side the front of the carriage, by being
screwed into the front pillars. A piece of wood is placed from one iron
to the other, and is boarded, which forms the coachman's seat. The
two irons may either be placed at the extremities of the front, where no
light is wanted from the front, or at any distance from the corner pillar,
leaving room for the seat, in which case a glass is made on each side the
box as in Fig. 3; a, a, the lights; the seat; so that the coachman is entirely
hid from the passengers, either in a coach or chariot; and the box, being
fixed to the body, rides equally easy with them. The footboard may be fixed
either. to the boot or the body, according to pleasure of the maker, and the
boot made of any shape or size. By this method of fixing the box, &c. the
carriage is rendered much lighter to follow the horses, as the perch may be
considerably shortened.
JOHN ABERY. (L.S.)
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Third day of April, in the year
above written, the aforesaid John Abery came before our said Lord the King
in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid, and all and
every thing herein contained and specified, in the 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 Seventh day of April, in the year above written.