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Worshipful Company of Wheelwrights

Livery company of the City of London

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Livery company of the City of London

Field	Value
name	Worshipful Company of Wheelwrights
image	Wheelwrights Coat of Arms.jpg
size	160px
motto	God Grant Unity
formation
association	Wheels & Mobility
precedence	68th
master	David Mortlock
website

The Worshipful Company of Wheelwrights is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London, England.

An organisation of Wheelwrights and Coachmakers petitioned for incorporation in 1630. The petition was granted forty years later, in 1670, when a royal charter was granted to the Wheelwrights. (The Coachmakers were separately incorporated in 1677.) The Wheelwrights' Company was granted the status of a Livery Company in 1763. Over the years, wheel making has largely changed from being hand-made by craftsmen to being made by machines. Whilst there are a number of working wheelwrights still practising the ancient craft, which the company actively supports through its apprenticeship scheme, the company is no longer a trade association for wheelwrights. Instead, it functions largely as a charitable body focusing on mobility.

The Wheelwrights' Company ranks sixty-eighth in the order of precedence for Livery Companies. Its motto is God Grant Unity.

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