Wheelmaking wooden wheel design & construction Don Peloubet

Wheelmaking

Wooden wheel design and construction

Compiled by the Carriage Museum of America

Edited by

Don Peloubet, (wheelwright)

Published 1996

Large format paperback, 12″ x 9″, 245 pages, illustrated throughout,.

This book is a compilation of articles taken from the leading trade journals of the day and gives an insight to the whole art of wheelbuilding technologies of the time, followed  by dishing of Wheels, Hubs, spokes, felloes, tyres, rubber tyres, patent wheels, wheel repairs.

Taken together, the articles give the reader a full understanding of the fast moving changes that took place in the wheelmaking industry during the late19th century, how the various new patents and processes worked, and how the various experts in the field felt and differed about them.

out of print and SCARCE