Over 250 authentic royalty-free depictions of lunch wagons, ice wagons, freight wagons, fire engines, stagecoaches, hearses, many other vintage vehicles, shown in detailed engravings and photographs, culled from rare trade periodicals.
Features photographs of the private collection of horse-drawn commercial vehicles started by J. Shumway Marshall and continued by his son Sut and Margaret Marshall, located in Conway, New Hampshire and Fryeburg, Maine.
FEATURES Cheyenne's Frontier Days Old West Museum 3 A Royal Coachman, Part I 8 How to Train Carriage Horses 12 Hints about Dress and Turnout 14 Duncan Macpherson's Model Vehicles 16 The Saga of 605 25 Coachmaking in Philadelphia, Part IV 30 DEPARTMENTS The View from the Box 2 The Road Behind: Education of the Driving Horse 20 Memories Mostly Horsy 22 Letters to the Editor 29 Book Reviews 33 The Carriage Trade 35
The View from the Box Some Carriage Collections in Argentina The Cracking of Paint . . . . Practicalities: Neck Collars . Rubber Tires and the Carriage Industry, Part 111 .. Hunter's Creek Farm .... Turnout . End Fastenings for Side Springs . Driving in Nineteenth Century Russia .. Shaft and Pole Dimension Tables . How to Take the Reins, and Get on the Box . Memories, Mostly Harsy .... Some Thoughts about Bitting the Driving Horse Book Review Carriage Trade
“A History of the Horse Drawn Carriage” is a collection of classic articles on the subject of horse drawn carriages in England, exploring their origins and developments over the centuries with reference to notable events and figures. This fascinating and informative treatise is highly recommended for those with an interest in traditional transportation and its evolution, and it would make for a fine addition to collections of allied literature. Contents include: “The Primitive Vehicle”, “The Age of Litters”, “Introduction of the Coach (1450—1600)”, “Interlude of the Chair”, “A Conference Between Sir Harry Pierce’s Chariot and Mrs. D. Stopford’s Chair”, “Seventeenth-Century Innovations”, “The Brighton, Bath and Dover Roads”, “Old Coaching Days”, etc. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new introduction on horses used for sports and utility.