THE COACH-HOUSE, 



a hole in the tongue, which it holds fast To disengage a 

 fallen horse, it is merely necessary to withdraw the peg. The 

 same inventor has an extraordinary appliance for single 

 harness. The pad is, in this case, the seat of the apparatus. 

 The back-band is divided, and the crupper-strap, instead of 

 being attached to the pad in the ordinary way, is provided, as are 

 both ends of the back-band, with leather tongues and brass 

 loops. The pad, strengthened with metal, is perforated at each 

 side and at the back to receive these three ends, which, when 

 in place, are all pierced by a single bolt which fits into the pad 

 behind the bearing-rein hook. When the horse falls, the with- 

 drawal of the bolt on the pad releases the back -band and crupper. 

 Woolnough's (2 Elizabeth Street, Eaton Square, London, S.W.) 

 Liberator Roller and Trace- Bolt seeks to compass the same end 

 by the head of the bolt being movable, and screwing into a socket 

 formed in the shank, so that, by unscrewing the head, the trace 

 can be slipped off in case of accident. In addition to the 

 foregoing, Mr. J. S. Waller, of Whitchurch, Salop, has patented 

 a new Trace-Bolt, which can be used in double or single 

 harness. In the latter case, the eye of the trace, instead of 

 being longitudinal in form, is merely a round hole, through 

 which a brass peg goes, fitting into a slot ; on pulling a spring 

 the peg is withdrawn, and the trace falls out ; the principle is 

 the same in the double-harness arrangement ; but the absence 

 of shafts necessitates the bolt being fitted to the splinter-bar. 

 In referring to these contrivances, we repeat that we do so 

 without any knowledge save in the case of Waller's trace-bolts 

 of their working. To one and all of these appliances 

 objection may be taken. One may be too complicated ; 

 another, though excellent in theory, may prove unworkable in 

 practice ; some may be thought unsightly ; in others defective 

 mechanism may be the weak point ; while the coachman of 

 olden days may disapprove the whole collection through a 

 hatred to ' newfangled notions.' The inventions noted in the 

 preceding pages, however, are but samples of the innumerable 

 patents taken out in connection with harness and stable 



