NEW YORK COACH-MAKER'S MAGAZINE, DEVOTED TO THE LITERARY, SOCIAL, AND MECHANICAL INTERESTS OF THE CRAFT. VOLUME TWELVE. JUNE, 187O, TL'O 1871 NEW YORK: GEO. W. W. HOUG-HTON, Editor 88 CHAMBERS STREET. MDCCLLXX1. PREFACE. It is without doubt generally known that ever since we undertook the editorship of the " New York Coachmakers' Magazine," we have been laboring in every way within our power to strengthen its good points, and to make as many additions to its interest and its practical nature as were possible. We have become convinced that the best way to accomplish this is to combine with it " The Hub," which contains some things that the magazine lacks; to add new departments; publish it in new form, and to enter with the thirteenth volume upon a "new series. Having determined upon this course, we believe that the sooner the change is made the better, and as the next volume of "The Hub" will begin with April next and will be prefaced by an introductory number in March, we have decided to join hands with it in its introductory number, and as that number will be in the improved form, this February Magazine will be most conveniently bound as the concluding number of the Twelfth Volume. We therefore give a brief preface, begging at the same time that our subscribers will remember that this does not denote the conclusion of the " New York Coachmaker," but only its last appearance under the old cover.- This change will not interfere with unexpired subscriptions, as we explain on page 152. Although this volume of nine numbers is a shorter one than usual, we trust that in prac- tical value it will compare favorably with those that have preceded it. Among the most interesting features which it has contained, we will mention the following: Our article on the " Golden Rule of Proportion " proved even more acceptable than we looked for. The article contains many novelties, but we have no doubt that behind it lies an im- portant principle which the carriage builders may apply. Not less valuable are the papers on " How to acquire Taste," and " Something about Trimming," and we spent much time and investigation in making up the article on the " Comparison of Iron and Steel." Mr. A. Muller has begun a series of articles for the " Wood-Shop," two of which have appeared already, and they give guua promise. PREFACE. ii The series of sixteen drafts, of the carriages and sleighs exhibited at the American Insti- tute Fair of 187.0, have not failed to excite the interest which we expected. The work of giving a continued supply of fine carriage designs is attended with many difficulties. Some are inclined to complain that the designs are not new, while others will perhaps say of the very same designs that they are too new and theoretical. But by taking accurate drawings of carriages actually exhibited at a prominent fair,'and by leading carriage builders of one of the leading carriage centers, the former complaint is rendered less probable, and the latter complaint has been entirely avoided. In the department of carriage drafts, the fine colored plate which appeared in the J anuary Magazine is worthy of especial notice, being the first" colored draft of a carriage that has been published by any journal in this country. The design was very carefully selected, and after being lithographed, each plate was colored by hand in seven colors, forming a very handsome picture. In the other departments the Magazine will speak for itself. Thanking our sub- scribers and correspondents for their interest and good wishes variously expressed, and begging a continuance of their favor to encourage and assist the Magazine in its new and improved form, under which it will hereafter be known as " The Hub and New York Coachmakers' Magazine," we remain, Yours respectfully, Chambers St., New York, February 1st, 1871. INDEX OF ILLUSTRATIONS. Plate 1, Six Seat Chariotee. 2. c-8pring caleche. 3. Turn-over Seat Rockaway. 4. Trotting Coal-box Buggy. Piano-box Road Buggy. 5. Six-seat Rockaway. 6. Extension-top Cabriolet. 7. Turn-over-seat Phaeton. 8. Road Buggy. Gig Phaeton. 9. Full Size Landaulet. 10. Cabriolet Caleche. 11. Excelsior Park Phaeton. 12. Compound Buggy. Road Phaeton. 13. Park Phaeton. 14. Six-seat Half-top Victoria Sleigh. 15. Excelsior Portland Sleigh. 16. Improved Cutter. Victoria Cutter. 17. Full Size Landaulet. 18. Dickey-seat Victoria Phaeton. 19. Excelsior Rockaway. 20. Road Buggy. Plate 20. Turn-out Seat Phaeton. 21. Two-wheel Dog Cart. 23. Light Road Wagon. Square Box Top Wagon. 23. Dexter Cutter. Eureka Cutter. 24. Three-fourths Landaulet. 25. Ham's Patent Six-seat Circular Front Clar- ence. 2G. Trotting Wagon. Jagger Top Wagon. 27. Four-seat Extension Top Phaeton. 28. Dexter Wagon. California Wood spring Wagon. 29. Three-quarters Landaulet. 30. Kimball Patent Jump-seat. 31. Circular Front Three-fourths Coupe. 32. One-half Spring No-top Wagon. Hambletoniak Road Wagon. 33. English Victoria Phaeton. 34. C-spring Phaeton. Close-top Physicians' Phaeton. 35. Piano Box Top Wagon. INDEX TO VOLUME TWELVE. Anvils, Improved................................... 26 Air, Sunshine and Pure.............................. 27 Advertising, Carriage............................... 29 Amesbury Ahead................................... 31 Arctic Traveling in Winter......................... 66 Apprenticeship..................................... 77 Artificial Gold..................................... 87 Antidote for Lead Poisoning......................... 100 American Institute Fair............................. 107 A. V. Monogram.................................... 108 Association, Industrial.............................. 125 Alarm (poetry)..................................... 128 After the Battle.................................... 153 Brushes, Care of................................... 8 Bronze, Gold....................................... 8 Black Pigments.................................. 8 Beckhaus, Joseph.................................. 15 Buck Wagons....................................... 31 Bessemer Steel..................................... 41 Bronze Colors...................................... 43 Business in California.............................. 49 Bath Sleighs...................................... 63 Blacking for Harness............................... 64 Burns, Varnish for.................................. 87 Broken Bows, Repairing of.......................... 88 Blacksmith's Capital............................... 100 Bessemer Metal..................................... 118 Carriage Springs..................,................ 8 Colors obtained from Copper......................... 9 Cushions, Stuffing of................................ 10 Coach-makers' Convention..........................11, 91 Central Park, Photographs from...................... 14 Chips and Shavings................................. 15 Coach Lamps.....................................15, 26 Chinese Vehicles.................................... 4 Carriages, Manufacture of........................... 22 Carriage Steps...................................... 26 Coach Painting in London........................... 28 Cincinnati Industrial Exhibition..................... 29 Circular-front Carriages............................. 31 Carriage Doors, Construction of...................... 38 Crests............................................. 45 Copal Varnish..................................... 45 Canary Yellow..................................... 45 Copal of Zanzibar.................................. 48 California, Business in............................. 49 Central Park Turnouts....................'.........55, 91 Cracks versus Grains................................ 57 Colors, Green...................................... 57 Colors in Trimming. ............................... 59 Carriage Drafts...................................61, 123 Carriage Repairing.................................. 61 Co-operation....................................... 64 Cushion for Wheels................................. 64 Complementary Colors.............................. 71 Coaches, First, in England.......................... 78 Carriage-maker, a Veteran...................!....... 78 Carriage-makers' Hardware.......................... 78 Coaches, English..............................82, 98, 113 Carpenters, Japanese........... .................... 86 Carriage-building, Style and Taste in................. 98 Colors in Trimming................................ 103 Coach-painting in Leeds. England.................... 119 Carriage, the Latest and most Fashionable............. 124 Derivation of Names of Trades....................... 31 Drives, Public............. ....................... 51 Desert Wagoner (poetry)............................ 70 Draft of Vehicles......'............................ 86 Drilling, Oil for ................................... 87 Declaration of Peace................................ 97 Distinctions of Form................................ 115 Essedas........................................... 3 English Varnish................................... 27 Elasticity, the Power of............................ 61 English Coaches..............................82, 98, 113 Elasticity of Painting............................... 87 Excursions, Target.................................. 93 Elms, Oaks and..................................... 117 Fore-carriage of Vehicles........................... 7 Flat Pencils...................................... 44 First Coaches in England. ,......................... 78 Festivals, Shooting................................. 78 INDEX. IV Fair, Prospect Park................................. 105 Fair, American Institute............................. 107 Form, Distinctions of............................... 115 Fashionable trimmings.............................. 121 Four-in-hand, The................................. 145 Filling of Wood.................................... 153 Geometrical Exercise...............................4,23 Gold Leaf......................................:... 28 Green Colors....................................... 57 Grains, Rising of................................... 58 Golden Rules....................................... 64 Golden Rule of Proportion....................84, 111, 128 Gold, Artificial..................................... 87 Growth of Trees.................................... 97 Grant's, President, Stable............................ 152 Heiden's Fore-carriage.............................. 7 Heating Tires...................................... 8 Harness Blacking................................... 10 Hubs.............................................. 15 How to acquire Taste............................... 46 Hearses........................................... 77 Hardware, Carriage-makers'.......................... 78 Hand and Brain................................... 107 Illustrations of the Drafts. .6, 24, 41, 59, 74, 88. 104, 122, 151 Industrial Association.............................. 125 Japan Gold Size................................... 55 Japanese Carpenters...................... ....... 86 Jaunting Car of Ireland............................ 92 Journeyman Smith................................. 99 Kimball Manufacturing Company.................... 5 King-bolt, New...................................... 43 Lampblack, Mixing................................. 10 Lamps, Coach..................................... 15 Lamps, Hanging Carriage (illustrated)................ 26 Linseed Oil and its Preparation.....................28, 73 London, Coach-painting in.......................... 28 Lightest Wagon.................................... 30 Library, Coach-builders'...................4.48, 53, 69, 90 London Phaeton.................................... 74 Lead Poisoning, Antidote for........................ 100 Magazine, Friends of this............................ 11 Manufacture of Carriages............................ 22 Monograms......................................44, 108 Maine Work....................................... 112 Monograms, Original................................ 151 Notices, Literary................................... 15 New Project....................................... 30 Newport, Driving in................................ 54 Napoleon's Carriage................................ 112 New Volume....................................... 145 Office Charts....................................... 14 Oil, Linseed, and its Preparation....................28, 73 Ox-cart, Bridal Trip in.............................. 31 Oil for Drilling.................................... 87 Oaks and Elms.................................... 117 Oil for White Striping.............................. 118 Pencils, Straightening.............................. 10 Painting, Trimming and............................ 10 Paint, Clean, for Varnishing......................... 15 Prices, Current......................16, 33, 65, 80, 96, 156 Painting in London................................ 28 Paying for Negligence.............................. 28 Prison Labor....................................... 31 Painter's Secret...................................40, 53 Pencils, Flat...................................... 44 Public Drives..................................... 51 Pavements, Our Street.............................. 62 Prater at Vienna................................... 67 Public Parks....................................69. 89 Pitt Insured by his Coach-makers.................... 70 Prince Erie's Nobby Team........................... 79 Proportion, Golden Rule of...................84, 111, 128 Putty, Hard-drying................................ 87 Painting, Elasticity of.............................. 87 Painting, Human and Divine (poetry)................. 102 Prospect Park Fair................................ 105 Picnics in Copenhagen............................. 108 Picture and Painting............................... 121 Peace Declared.................................... 123 Permanent Wood Filling............................ 153 Rubbing Stone, English...........................10, 93 Rogers, Win. D., the Coach Factory of............... 36 Rising of Grain..................................... 58 Rubbing Stone..................................... 79 Repairing. Broken Bows ............................ 88 Removal of a Boston Carriage Firm.................. 154 Robber and the Wagoner............................ 153 Stuffing Cushions................................... 10 Stage-coaches in 1824............................... 17 Storing of Carriages................................ 22 Summer Morning (poetry)........................... 24 Steps, Carriage..................................... 26 Sunshine and Pure Air............................. 27 Subscribers........................................ 28 Swindlers.. .:...................................... 29 Stick Seats....................................... 39 Styles in London................................... 45 Shaw, B. C, of Indianapolis....................... 51 Song for Hooam an' t' Shop (poetry).................. 53 Spotting of Varnish by Mud......................... 72 Shooting Festivals...........'...................... 78 Salutatory....................................... 80 _ Sea-shore (poetry)................................. 81 Style and Taste in Carriage Building.............98, 147 Steam Omnibus................................... 112 Sawdust in the Smith-shop.......................... 118 Sleighs, Trimming of............................... 151 Sewell, S. & J....................................... 155 Trimming, and Painting............................ 10 Trimmings, Style of................................. 10 Trade, Review of..................................13, 30 Top-joints on a New Plan (illustrated)................ 26 Timber, Why Painted............................... 39 Trimming of Carriages............................. 45 Taste, how to Acquire............................. 46 Trimming, Colors in................................ 59 Trade News.......................................63, 95 Trimming, Something about....................... 75 Texas Trade News.................................. 76 Three-wheeled Omnibus............................. 76 Tires, Defects of.................................. 79 Taste and Style in Carriage Building...............98, 147 Trees, Growth of.................................. 99- Trimming, Colors in................................. 103 Taylor & Bradley................................... 112 Trimmings, Fashionable............................. 121 Trimming of Sleighs................................ 151 Vandalism......................................... 13 Vermilion . . ...................................... 26 Varnish, English................................... 27 Varnish, Copal.................................... 45 Varnish, Making.................................... (54 Valedictory...................................... 30 Vehicles, Draft of................................... gg Varnish for Burns................................... §7 Varnish Manufacture, Present State in the United States. 101 Wood-work of Carriages.........................1 19 34 Wind-harps (poetry)..............................\ n ' q Webster's, Daniel, Coach............................ 30 Whip Sockets.................................... 31 Wheel-making..................................... 39 Wheel, to Obtain a Level............................ 59 West Indian Carriages.............................. 128 Wood, Filling of................................... 153 Yellow, Canary..................................... 45 Zinc White, Treatment of.. . :........................ JQ2