EXPERIMENTS AND OBSERVATIONS 



ADVANTAGE OF EMPLOYING WHEELS WITH BROAD 

 FELLOES FOR TRAVELLING AND PLEASURE CAR- 

 RIAGES. 



WHEN we consider the immense number of 

 coaches, diligences, cabs, and other vehicles, 

 for travelling or for pleasure, which are to-day in use 

 among the various nations, and the great number of 

 horses employed in drawing them, we shall see that 

 every improvement in the construction of these car- 

 riages, which without being too expensive renders 

 them either more agreeable or more durable or easier 

 to draw, would deserve to be considered an object of 

 very great importance to society, and consequently well 

 worthy the attention of those who love to contribute 

 to perfecting useful things. 



As far as the preservation of the roads is concerned, 

 no one has ever doubted the advantages to be gained 

 by the adoption of the wheels with broad felloes which 

 have been prescribed for some years in France, for 

 large wagons and other vehicles intended to carry 

 heavy loads ; but opinions have been divided on the 

 question, whether these new wheels did not make the 

 wagons heavier, and harder to draw. Experience has 

 rapidly scattered the fears of the wagoners in this 



