j6 PAINTING AND LETTERING CH. IV 



but their shackles are usually black, or are covered 

 with black leather. 



The rule of painting the panel of the hind boot 

 the same colour as the body is not invariable ; it 

 is frequently the same as the colour of the carriage- 

 part, as in the mail-coaches. The choice of the 

 colour is somewhat a matter of taste, depending on 

 which colour will look the best when the coach is 

 seen from behind. If the body-colour is light, it is 

 put upon the panel ; not if it is dark. 



A public-coach usually has no striping. A drag 

 may have striping, preferably black, at the root of 

 the spokes, on the rims of the wheels, round the 

 doors, and on the box-seat risers, and a lined panel 

 on the under side of the foot-board. The corners 

 ot the wood-work of the carriage-part are some- 

 times moulded and striped : in this case some of 

 the bolt-heads and clips are black. 



The only other ornamentation on a drag is the 

 monogram, or the crest, of the owner, painted on 

 the crest-panel (which is the narrow panel under 

 the window), and the devices of any coaching clubs 

 to which the owner may belong, which are painted 

 on the door under the crest-panel, and in the centre 

 of the panel of the hind boot ; or the crest, or 

 monooram alone, may be there. 



A public-coach has painted on it the names of the 

 places between, and through which, it runs. 



The names of the two ends of the route are 

 on the panel of the hind boot, the more important 



