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Wheelmaking
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1879335735
WHEELMAKING
Wooden Wheel Design & Construction
This fascinating book begins with an overview of the wheel making technologies of the time, followed by sections on the dishing of wheels, hubs, spokes, felloes and rims, tires, rubber tires, patent wheels, and wheel repair. It chronicles an industry being transformed, partly by a spate of a new patented designs, but chiefly by the advent of power machinery and the mechanization of the wheel making process. Valuable both to the general reader and to the practicing wheelwright.
Format: Softcover. Dimensions: 9" x 12" Pages: 248 Illustrations: 360
This fascinating book begins with an overview of the wheel making technologies of the time, followed by sections on the dishing of wheels, hubs, spokes, felloes and rims, tires, rubber tires, patent wheels, and wheel repair. It chronicles an industry being transformed, partly by a spate of a new patented designs, but chiefly by the advent of power machinery and the mechanization of the wheel making process. Valuable both to the general reader and to the practicing wheelwright.
| Author | The Carriage Museum of America and Don Peloubet |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Astragal Press |
| Format | Softcover |