THE ROYAL ARTILLERY INSTITUTION. 
335 
PRINCIPLES 
OF 
CONSTRUCTION OF TRANSPORT CARRIAGES. 
BY 
CAPTAIN W. KEMMIS, R.A. 
Remarks. 
What has been said in the preceding paper on the Construction of 
Field Artillery Carriages, viewing them as travelling carriages, is, in a 
modified form, applicable to transport carriages. 
These carriages are not required, in general, to move over such 
broken ground as artillery carriages may have to surmount, nor to 
move at such rapid pace. Hence—and bearing in mind also their 
special purpose, namely, the conveyance of stores—we may regard 
their essential qualities as the following :— 
Essential Qualities, 
Capacity to receive, and strength to convey, their load. 
Stability in carrying it. 
Lightness of draught, and moderate mobility. 
Durability, simplicity, and facility of shipment. 
Before discussing these qualities in detail, it will simplify the subject 
to assume that the vehicles to be employed are wagons* (a few remarks 
upon carts being afterwards made); that the load to be conveyed, and 
team to draw it, are fixed; and also, for the time, to neglect the 
question of springs. 
Capacity and Strength. 
As to capacity for load—the first mentioned requisite—a wagon 
should be able to receive the weight it is designed to carry in a 
reasonably bulky form, without it being necessary to pack the load 
* Wagons not limbered; because it is undesirable to leave space between tbe axles of no use for 
loading, as in a limbered wagon. 
