REVIEW— BODWAY’S PATENT HORSESHOE. 
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bar-iron, before manufacture, which trifling addition will be 
greatly more than compensated for in the saving that will accrue 
from the little labour and workmanship demanded. Mr. Rod- 
way’s rolled and grooved bar-iron simply requires being cut into 
the proper lengths, which are, when heated, readily turned into 
the desired forms around the beak of the anvil ; nought remain- 
ing save that they be cut at the heels and punched, and the 
shoes are made. In inexperienced hands the inner rim will be 
often found to pucker a little, perhaps, in turning : this by a 
tool — a sort of round iron ring — is easily rectified. 
Mr. Rodway’s bar-iron being bevelled upon the foot-surface, 
will, to the generality of feet, admit of shoes made from it being 
applied ; the exceptions being pumice feet, or any approach 
thereto, to which it cannot be adapted. Neither is it suitable 
for thin, shelly, brittle crusted feet : indeed, the only way it can 
be applied in such cases is to punch the holes through the ex- 
ternal rim, instead of through the concavity. The door-man, 
for nailing the patent shoes on, will require a hammer with a 
small or conical head : a common hammer will not strike the 
nails after they have entered the groove. Also, pincers with 
round blades and contracted biters will be wanted for withdraw- 
ing nails out of the concavity. 
Having — so far as we can at present judge of it — stated our 
opinions on Mr. Rodway’s Patent, and we trust, candidly and 
fairly done so, it becomes our duty to add, that, so far from being 
a new invention, it is but the counterpart of a very old one. 
Mr. Field has in his museum, at this present time, the identical 
original shoe; and that was made out of solid bar-iron, by means 
of a tool, by one of Mr. Field’s men, two-and-twenty years ago. 
There is also in the same museum another shoe, similar to this, 
with sharp instead of round edges to the rims, which was many 
years ago worn in the vale of Aylesbury, as a hunting shoe. 
The existence of these aborigines do not, however, in the least 
influence our opinion of the present patent : should it be found 
on fresh trial to possess but half the good properties Mr. Rod way 
has ascribed to it, the time is not far distant when we shall 
be riding and driving about town, furiously and fearlessly, in 
spite of all the efforts the Wood-paving Companies are making 
to break our horses’ knees and our own necks. 
