Figure 31. — Original wooden-spoked 

 wheel of John Bull, in Notional Museum. 



A wheel, said to be one of the originals (figure 31) but lack- 

 ing the flanged metal tire, was presented to the National 

 Museum (USNM 181194) by the Pennsylvania Railroad 

 Co. in 1894. An inch or so less in diameter than 54 inches, 

 the wheel would certainly be of the original size if the tire 

 were in place. The 14 spokes and the felloe are of wood. 

 Metal bands, similar to the crank rings of the America (now 

 affixed to the reconstructed wheels of the restored Stourbridge 

 Lion, see p. 20), are included in the construction of this old 

 wheel o^xhc John Bull. 



Whether or not it is one of the original wheels applied to 

 the locomotive by Stephenson can not at this time be def- 

 initely proved. Possibly it is an early wooden-spoked wheel 

 built and tried by the Camden and Amboy prior to the 

 adoption of the all-metal wheels now on the locomotive. An- 

 other similar wheel, until recently located in the Pennsyl- 

 vania's library in its Suburban Station Building in Philadel- 

 phia, is now in storage. These two wheels were included in 

 that railroad's exhibit at the World's Columbian Exposition 

 in 1893. 



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