Coach making, Pearce and Countze, Long Acre, London

Scene at the coach makers, Pearce and Countze, Long Acre, London, showing four men hooping or tiring a wheel - this involves fitting a solid iron hoop around the wood while the iron is hot, and then shrinking the metal as it cools

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1841 Acre Coaches Cooling Fitting Hoop Hooping Makers Manufactory Operatives Pearce Pour Pouring Shrink Shrinking Solid Spoke Spokes Steaming Tiring

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