Picture No | 12826826 |
Date | 1841 |
Description | Coach making, Pearce and Countze, Long Acre, London |
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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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Source | Engraving in ‘The Penny Magazine’, December 1841, page 505 |
Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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