Wheelmaking

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