And then came a time when almost every coachbuilder had some "pet dodge" with which the dangers of travelling were supposed to be reduced to a minimum.
No effort was spared to make the mail or road-coach the best possible conveyance of its kind, and in retaining the model of a former age the modern coachbuilder confesses his inability to improve upon the handiwork of his progenitors.
He was not, however, the only coachbuilder whose attention was being given to this useful carriage.
At the beginning of the century it had hardly been so popular as the landaulet, but at this time it underwent several improvements at the hands of Mr. Luke Hopkinson, a celebrated coachbuilder of Holborn.
But in America, as in Europe, no entirely new bodies or methods of framing were needed, and such little differences as there were are only of interest to the coachbuilder or the expert.
Though such a pronouncement will seem entirely superfluous to any coachbuilder who reads the following pages, it is not perhaps a wholly unnecessary remark.
So in 1860 a London coachbuilder could write to the American author of The World on Wheels:-- "Ten years have completed a total revolution in the carriage trade in England.
After much persuasion, backed by the offer of a considerable sum of money, the coachbuilder was at length induced to transfer my father's indentures to Allan Ramsay.
At his own earnest request he was bound apprentice to Mr. Crighton, then the chief coachbuilder in Edinburgh.
Dupont, of Paris, to show how completely a Coachbuilder at a distance might be guided in building carriages by his designs.
This is charming for an antiquarian, but contains no information useful to a Coachbuilder of to-day.
In deciding upon the exact size and shape of the details of the brake a Coachbuilder is necessarily guided by the shape of the vehicle to which it is to be applied.
In answer Mr. Stragaus produced from his bag the placard before described and spread it upon the table, at the same time looking at the coachbuilder as if to demand his opinion on such a fine display of colour.
In the first place, we must find a competent coachbuilder at once.
Why, look here, it means that to-morrow morning we go to that coachbuilder I was speaking of and give him an order for a prison van.
If the tailor and the coachbuilder were quick he promised to pay them double.
He ordered the tailor to make him a mantle and vest of blue velvet embroidered with pearls, and the coachbuilder to make him a golden coach like the coach of the Princess Ludovine.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "coachbuilder" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
