TAA i.3.8.19
Typewritten and annotated notes on chariots, page 2 (for handwritten copy of annotated notes, see TAA i.3.8.37-39). See also TAA i.3.18.verso for additions to final paragraph.
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THE CHARIOT
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employed in the various stages of chariot construction. These
workmen would include body-makers, who built up the parts in which
the charioteer stood; carriage-makers, who made and fitted together
all the under parts of the vehicle, on which the body rests; wheel-
wrights; smiths for the metal-work; curriers for the leather-work;
trimmers for the upholstering; and lastly decorators, – the gilder,
inlayer, and painter – who contributed to the elegance of the car.
A great deal of the industry must have depended upon the selection
of materials; for in vehicular construction strength, lightness,and non-faulty material, were/<was> naturally of the greatest importance.
… was the kind of wood they used for the body. A straight and
tough quality of … wood for the pole.
Wheel-making was naturally a very important branch of the industry,
in which rigidity, strength and lightness, had to be taken into/<was the primitive>
consideration. … wood was used for the naves, especially selected
… for the spokes, and … for the felloes. All these, as well as
those for the body and the pole, were made of straight-grained wood
bent to the required shape.
THE PARTS AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE CHARIOT.
The carriage proper comprises an axle-tree and (two) wheels. The
body, about half the height of the charioteer and not/<little> more than about
a metre wide, was made of <a strong> straight-grained wood bent to the required
shape. A great/<large> portion of the sides, and the whole of the back of
the body, were/<was> open. The uprights parts of the body, which varied inshape and design according to taste and requirements, were tenoned
and mortised to the under-frame. The under-frame comprised a rounded
piece of straight-grained wood bent semi-circular, so as to form the
sides and <the> front, the two ends of which were attached by a double tenon<s>
and mortise<s> to a broad foot-board at the back. The foot board/<under-frame> was
fixed onto the axle-tree, and was supported by/<on x[?]> wooden “chairs”, or/<like>kind of/<wooden> sockets, <which held[?] to replace> at either end, and <it was> lashed in place with leather thongs
at intervals. The end of the pole<,> was inserted into a socket cut
<made of a straight-framed and high quality wood,>