CH. Ill SPLINTER-BAR 2J 



1 make an eye in the end of it ; drive a bolt through 

 ' this eye, the swingle bar, and the splinter bar, 

 ' with a nut underneath. On this bolt the swingle 

 ' bar revolves beautifully. You can have the ordi- 

 ' nary roller bolts on the swingle bars. I have 

 'written to " Nimshivich," who is evidently one of 

 ' those who knows what he is talking about. I 

 ' consider that with swingle bars a horse is always 

 ' pulling with both shoulders instead of with one 

 ' at a time alternately ; also that the evil of uneven 

 ' traces is nullified.' 



A full-sized model of the bars, as shown in 

 Fig. 8, was exhibited by me in the Coaching Ex- 

 hibitions in London of 1894 and 1896, and had 

 Colonel Pedler's letter been seen earlier, the model 

 would have been accompanied by a note of explana- 

 tion. The arrangement was applied to my coach in 

 1877, and the invention seems therefore to have 

 been made by us both at about the same time. 



In many vehichles the bar itself is made to move 

 about a central pin, and is then called an evener, 

 because it ensures, within certain limits, each horse 

 doine an even share of the work, but it is not used 

 on a coach, nor is it necessary, as the coachman 

 should be able to make his horses work evenly 

 without the aid of any mechanical appliance. 



An evener is sometimes made with two holes on 

 either side of the middle one, so that by shifting it 

 on the pin, a weak horse can be favoured. This 

 is not likely to be used on a coach, but a good 



