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FOR MAY, 1807. == pm! ROOCD'S PATENT HAMPSHIRE WAGGON. [/Yith a Plate annexed.] To ihe Editor of the Agricultural Magazine.

SIR,

GREEABLE to my promise to you at Lord Somerville's 7X: Jater Stew;[ herewith transmit you, for insgertion in your valuable and usefu! Magazine, the plates of ny Hamp- Shire waggon* and a description thereof.

As I am in a very different line of business, I feel unable to do justice to the publicity of my invention, and conse- quently feel inclined to dispose of my Patent T

1 am, Sir, your most obedient,

Portsmouth, JOHN ROOD.

May 7, 1807.

Tt having been long a complaint among gentlemen, far mer3, and others, whoze business requires the constant uge of carts, and only the occasional use of waggons, that the wag- gon, however well preserved by a Shed or building, is daily decaying while out of use, particularly the iron work thereof, which is Shorily destroyed by rust; in like manner, those whose concerns require the almost constant use of waggons, and but the occasional use of carts, the latter while unem- ployed, bear a very conziderable proportion to the wear and tear of carts which are in constant use, These circumstances have induced the patentee to bring to perfection, at a Conzi- derable expense, a contrivance whereby the Saime carriage

» It is to be wished that Mr. Rood had printed his plates on a better paper. BE.

+ Any wheelwright or agricultural implement maker, who has an ex- zensive connexion for bringing this useful and valuable economical waggon znto general ue, would probably find his account in treating with Mr. Rood for his patent right. E,

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