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Author: Gloria Austin Publisher: ISBN: 9781951895006 Category : Antiques & Collectibles Languages : en Pages : 100
Book Description
Horse-drawn vehicles are the foundation of modern transportation. These vehicles produced many innovations used today, such as the spring. Other than observing a horse put to a carriage, there are proper ways to identify these vehicles and their unique characteristics. One style of driving, called "four-in-hand", required the training of four-horses and exercising them well in order to pull large, heavy coaches with many passengers or freight. These vehicles, designed for working horses, gave way to many styles of sporting vehicles and pleasure vehicles. And in turn, as it became fashionable for a lady to drive in public, the distinctions among carriages were drawn even further between which carriages were suitable for a lady and which carriages were suitable for a gentleman. Just as there were many types of carriages and types of coaches, there were also various ways to hold the reins, types of a harness, and variety of breeds to choose from for putting to a coach or carriage. Come explore the type, use, design, and industry of coaches and carriages.
Author: Gloria Austin Publisher: ISBN: 9781951895006 Category : Antiques & Collectibles Languages : en Pages : 100
Book Description
Horse-drawn vehicles are the foundation of modern transportation. These vehicles produced many innovations used today, such as the spring. Other than observing a horse put to a carriage, there are proper ways to identify these vehicles and their unique characteristics. One style of driving, called "four-in-hand", required the training of four-horses and exercising them well in order to pull large, heavy coaches with many passengers or freight. These vehicles, designed for working horses, gave way to many styles of sporting vehicles and pleasure vehicles. And in turn, as it became fashionable for a lady to drive in public, the distinctions among carriages were drawn even further between which carriages were suitable for a lady and which carriages were suitable for a gentleman. Just as there were many types of carriages and types of coaches, there were also various ways to hold the reins, types of a harness, and variety of breeds to choose from for putting to a coach or carriage. Come explore the type, use, design, and industry of coaches and carriages.
Author: Ralph Straus Publisher: ISBN: Category : Carriages and carts Languages : en Pages : 386
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"In the present book there are, indeed, large gaps, and it is not to be taken either as a manual of the art of coachbuilding or as a history of locomotion. It is merely a book about carriages, in which particular regard has been paid to chronological sequence, and particular attention to such individual carriages as have at all withstood the test of social history. And it is written by a layman who, until he enquired into the subject, had never looked at a carriage with any particular emotion. The result of his labours, therefore, is not meant for the expert, but for the general reader, who may have pondered over the various vehicles he has seen, and idly wondered how they may have evolved."--Author's preface, page 14.
Author: Peter Foster Publisher: ISBN: 9781864766424 Category : Carriages and carts Languages : en Pages : 132
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Coaches, Carriages & Carts covers the first hundred years of Australia’s initial land transport conveyances. It is a wonderful history of a period, which sadly has been overlooked with our current forms of landtransport. All kinds of wheeled vehicles - Hansom cabs, Charabancs, Horse-trams, Wagonettes and Jingles - moved the masses to work six days a week and on weekends, took them to picnics and sightseeing. Little visual or written evidence remains of this period in Australia’s history, and very few representative collections of vehicles have been developed to inform and educate. This book will in some way overcome this lack of exposure to the days of horse, carriage and cart, allowing our current generation a unique insight into an enthralling period in our transport history.
Author: Ralph Straus Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub ISBN: 9781507550205 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 198
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"[...]the flatter wastes of Egypt and the level plains of Philistia. Agricultural carts these were, though no doubt early used for passenger traffic. Some of these carts were most probably covered, though no coverings seem to have been fixed to the chariots. The Assyrians, however, occasionally took into their private chariots an attendant, who was provided with a covering shaped somewhat like a modern umbrella. This covering was held over the owner's head, and was sometimes provided with a curtain which hung down at the back. Details of the private carriages in use during these Biblical times filter through the chronicles. In Syria the merchants despatched by Solomon to buy chariots had to pay 600 shekels each for them. Solomon in his quest for luxury seems to have been the first man to build a more elaborate car than satisfied his contemporaries. One to be used on state occasions was built of cedar wood and[...]".
Author: Francis T. Underhill Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 0486142752 Category : Antiques & Collectibles Languages : en Pages : 305
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Writing at the turn of the century, Francis T. Underhill provided horse and carriage owners with a comprehensive guidebook that described how a well turned-out carriage should look and be handled. An expert in coaching and equipage, Underhill wrote with enthusiasm and a thorough knowledge of the subject, offering his readers a wealth of information about horses, harnesses, coaches, stables, and liveries, as well as useful "suggestions to the inexperienced." Republished now in its entirety, this delightfully entertaining volume depicts in more than 100 black-and-white captioned photographs of scores of vehicles: a "turned out" road coach, hooded gig, an elegant George IV phaëton, a Paris lady's chaise, hansome cab, landau, coupé d' Orsay, omnibus, depot wagon, buckboard, a smart "lady's country trap," and many more. In addition to elegant carriages, practical buggies, and cozy carts, this remarkable archive provides a fascinating visual commentary on nineteenth-century culture and life, recalled in vintage photographs of coachmen and grooms, stable and coachroom interiors as well as "night and dress clothing" for the properly accoutered horse. Reprinted from a rare original edition published at the height of the age of horse-drawn transportation, this authentic sourcebook will be welcomed by model builders, transportation buffs, artists in need of authentic period illustrations, and anyone interested in the bygone era of leisurely pre-automobile travel.
Author: Paul H. Downing Publisher: Carriage Assoc. of America ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 48
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR . THE 1969 CONFERENCE OF THE CARRIAGE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA, INC. COACHING IN AMERICA Page 2 8 by Elizabeth Toomey Seabroo!, .. THE COLLINGE AXLE by George Isles . A HISTORY OF CARRIAGES by Lt. Col. Paul!-/. Downing . SPECIAL TO "THE CARRIAGE JOURNAL" FROM THE ADIRONDACK MUSEUM by Margaret W. Latham THE CARRIAGE MARATHON - 1969 by Sidney Latham . CARRIAGE DRIVING COMPETITION IS STAGED IN VICTORIJ\N SETTING . HORSE, PONY VEHICLES TO BE MANUFACTURED HERE
Author: Hugh McCausland Publisher: Read Books Ltd ISBN: 1473386640 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 181
Book Description
Mr Hugh McCausland is an authority on the history and turn-out of English Carriages and Coaches. He has also driven many, if not all, of the coaches that have appeared on English roads. It had been said that few books of either fact or fiction are written, pictures painted or films made, in which carriages and their equipment have been correctly depicted. Mr McCausland has now fixed this problem with this fine book.
Author: Donald H. Berkebile Publisher: ISBN: 9780486233284 Category : Antiques & Collectibles Languages : en Pages : 167
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Dog carts, "shays," buckboards, sulkies, piano-box buggies, breaks, phaetons, depot wagons, coaches, sleighs ... These carriages are some of the finest representation of nineteenth-century craftsmanship. They also reflect a great deal of nineteenth-century culture and life. This book makes the wonderful diversity of American carriages available to you in outstanding Victorian engravings. Included are 168 illustrations of carriages, most from the period 1850 to 1900: chaises ("shays"), dog carts, governess carts (for children), stanhope gigs, hansome cabs, sulkies, road carts and pony carts, beach wagons, buckboards, piano-box buggies (one of the most popular), shifting-seat buggies, Dearborn wagons, runabouts, skeleton wagons, surreys, breaks, extension-top phaetons, basket and mail phaetons, a spider phaeton, traps, a coupé rockaway, depot wagons, clarences, landaus, broughams, cabriolets, mountain wagons, opera buses, and many others. Sleighs include the booby-hut, Albany cutter, Portland cutter and bob sleigh. Additional plates show trimming patterns. Most of these illustrations are high-quality engravings made specially for the trade, and are therefore the most accurate representations of these carriages available. These sources include The Hub, The Carriage Monthly, The New York Coach-maker's Magazine, and manufacturers catalogues. Photographs from the Smithsonian Institution are also included -- Back cover.
Author: Gloria Austin
Author: Gloria Austin
Author: Ralph Straus
Author: Peter Foster
Author: Ralph Straus
Author: Francis T. Underhill
Author: William Felton (coachmaker.)
Author: Paul H. Downing
Author: Richard Mulvaney
Author: Hugh McCausland
Author: Donald H. Berkebile