408 



DRIVING. 



BUG 



Buggies, 380 



Burnishers, 89 



Buxton and Peyton Association, 



254 



Buxton bits, 89 

 Buying a horse, 60 



CAB-DRIVERS' Benevolent Asso- 

 ciation, 388 



Cab-phaetons, 373 



Cabriolets, 42, 369 



Cabs, 364, 388 



Cads, 308, 311 



Carriages, origin of, 21 ; evolu- 

 tion of the wheel, 22-24 '> the 

 axle-tree, 24 ; chariots, 24, 

 25 ; four-wheeled wagons, 

 25 ; wheeled vehicles in the 

 middle ages, 26 ; the ' chare,' 

 27 ; Bill to restrain excessive 

 use of, 27 ; taxing, 28 ; in- 

 stitution of public stages, 28 ; 

 early staje-coach, 28 ; satire 

 on coaches by Taylor, the 

 Water-Poet, 29; the horse- 

 litter, 30; invention of springs, 

 30 ; Colonel Blount's spring- 

 carriage, 30 ; an odd device, 



31 ; the driver's place, 31, 32, 

 34, 44; seventeenth-century 

 carriages, 31 ; the sedan cart, 



32 ; the gig, 32, 44 ; list of 

 English vehicles, 33 ; the 

 mail -phaeton, 33, 46; the 

 steel spring, 33; the high- 

 flierphaeton, 34 ; Georgelll.'s 

 state-carriage, 35 ; the ba- 

 rouche, 37 ; controversy on 

 cylindrical and conical wheels, 

 37 ; Mr. Robert Bealson's 

 roller, 37, 38 ; Mr. Jean 

 Tellier's rods to prevent up- 

 set, 38, 39; the S or whip- 



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spring, 39 ; the landau and 

 lanclaulet, 39 ; the sulky, 39 ; 

 pony-phaeton, 40 ; curricle, 

 40; the 'whisky,' 41 ; cab- 

 riolet, 42 ; the Stanhope, 43 ; 

 the Tilbury and Dennett, 44 ; 

 dog-carts, 44 ; the hansom, 

 44 ; britzska, 46 ; broughams, 

 47 ; wagonettes, 48 ; the 

 Victoria, 48; sociable landau 

 and barouche, 49 ; American, 

 50 ; Norwegian and Russian, 

 51 ; preservation of, 84; wash- 

 ing, 85 ; examination of, 86 ; 

 cost of, 105-115 376-379; 

 see also Modern Carriages 



Carriage-builders, London, 109 ; 

 see Makers 



Carriage -horses, 53 ; points for 

 selection, 54 ; for cabriolet, 

 55 ; for chariot, 55 ; foreign, 

 55 ; prices, 55, 62-4; jobbing, 

 57 ; prices in 1718 and 1889, 

 57 ; for phaeton, 58 ; ' a good 

 trapper,' 58 ; high action, 58 ; 

 trotters,. 59 ; advertisement of 

 sale, 60 ; tricks of copers, 60 ; 

 buying, 60-4 ; examination by 

 Royal Veterinary College, 63 ; 

 dealer's form of sale, 63 ; hire, 

 64 ; modern dealers and old- 

 fashioned copers, 64 ; physical 

 ailments, 65-67 ; vices, 67 ; 

 kickers and jibbers, 67 ; fallen, 

 68 ; marks of age, 68 ; daily 

 work, 70-74; feeding, 74; 

 bedding, 74 ; pairs, 75 ; a 

 suitable establishment, 75 ; 

 fitting with bits, 89 ; bearing- 

 reins, 90 ; collars, 93-5 ; kick- 

 ing-straps, 96 ; cost of, in 



Carrioles, 51, 359, 367 



Carts, 149 



Caucasus, winter- riding in the, 335 



