The kind of body-hoi'se most generally used in painting the bodies of carriages consists of a pair of good stout secondhand wheels, placed back to back and on top of each other, and four cross-bearers and castors. Procure a pair of wheels about 3ft. 6in. high, with 2 1/4-in. or 2 1/2-in. spokes; see that the tyres are tight, so that the spokes will not work when the weight is put upon them. If the stocks are fairly large on the back end, clean them off true and flat; plug up the centre quite tight in each one. On the back of one fix an iron plate the size of the stock, having a 1-in. iron pin in the centre long enough to pass up through the other wheels, and fitted with a nut and thread at the top. On the face of the rim of the bottom wheel are bolted two cross-bearers about I ft. long, tin. wide by fin. deep, parallel with each other, having strong castors fixed on about 9 in. from each end. On the back of the top wheel is fixed an iron plate similar in size to the bottom one, with a hole through the centre to take the bolt fixed to the bottom wheel. The backs of the wheels are put together and screwed down by the nut on top of the bolt. On the rim of the top wheel are bolted two be irers similar in size to those on the bottom wheel.

The body, when taken off the carriage, rests upon these, when the top wheel can be turned round to any desired position, or the whole moved where required by the castors on the bottom wheel.