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This reprint of a rare catalog contains descriptions, prices, and finely detailed engravings of customized models of a curtain coach, child's chaise, light French coupe, cabriolet, six-seat beach wagon, Portland sleigh, and many other vehicles. Rich source of royalty-free art as well as an intriguing browse.
The first edition of Horse Drawn Sleighs proved so helpful to those who wished to build sleighs, or those who were just interested in them and wished to study them in detail, that Susan Green has compiled a Second Edition. The second edition, like the first, is a book of specially selected articles from three of the outstanding carriage journals of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In this edition, however, there are many more illustrations, and more working drawings for builders. There is a glossary of terms for sleighs and sleigh parts, and a new section with essays on early sleighs and sleighing. The book covers almost every imaginable type of sleigh: Albany (or swell-body), Portland cutters, speeding cutters, multi-passenger, box-body, traps and sporting sleighs, Canadian, rumble-seat, cabriolets, vis-a-vis, closed-body, and more. Not only are these various sleighs fully illustrated with detailed line drawings, but full descriptions are given covering dimensions, materials used, trim, and painting details. There are also sections that provide valuable information on sleigh construction, ironing, body design, painting, and trimming. Altogether, an invaluable resource.
Co-Winner of the 2005 Hagley Business History Book Prize given by the Busines History Conference. In 1926, the Carriage Builders' National Association met for the last time, signaling the automobile's final triumph over the horse-drawn carriage. Only a decade earlier, carriages and wagons were still a common sight on every Main Street in America. In the previous century, carriage-building had been one of the largest and most dynamic industries in the country. In this sweeping study of a forgotten trade, Thomas A. Kinney extends our understanding of nineteenth-century American industrialization far beyond the steel mill and railroad. The legendary Studebaker Brothers Manufacturing Company in 1880 produced a hundred wagons a day—one every six minutes. Across the country, smaller factories fashioned vast quantities of buggies, farm wagons, and luxury carriages. Today, if we think of carriage and wagon at all, we assume it merely foreshadowed the automobile industry. Yet., the carriage industry epitomized a batch-work approach to production that flourished for decades. Contradicting the model of industrial development in which hand tools, small firms, and individual craftsmanship simply gave way to mechanized factories, the carriage industry successfully employed small-scale business and manufacturing practices throughout its history. The Carriage Trade traces the rise and fall of this heterogeneous industry, from the pre-industrial shop system to the coming of the automobile, using as case studies Studebaker, the New York–based luxury carriage-maker Brewsters, and dozens of smallerfirms from around the country. Kinney also explores the experiences of the carriage and wagon worker over the life of the industry. Deeply researched and strikingly original, this study contributes a vivid chapter to the story of America's industrial revolution.
This volume reproduces an extremely rare catalog published in 1862 by the noted carriage manufacturer Lawrence, Bradley and Pardee of New Haven, Connecticut. It contains more than 200 finely detailed engravings of carriages and sleighs from the mid-nineteenth century. Proudly advertising everything from a Light French Dog-Cart to "a very Rich Glass-Quartered Coach," complete with steps, iron baggage rack, and full trim, the catalog also includes customized models of a curtain coach, child's chaise, light French coupe, cabriolet, six-seat beach wagon, Portland sleigh, and scores of other carriages and coaches. Complete with original descriptions and prices, these elegant illustrations offer transportation buffs an opportunity to study the horse-drawn vehicles of yesteryear in an inexpensive republication of a catalog worth hundreds of dollars in its original edition. These pages also represent a rich source of royalty-free art for today's commercial artists and advertisers, as well as an enjoyable browsing volume for antiques enthusiasts and anyone fascinated by American life in a bygone era.
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FEATURES Cornelius Krieghoff 91 The Celebration of the Horse 98 'I'ilbury's Modification of the Cabriolet 103 Carriage Tracks 107 Caroline Dale-Leech; Red House Stables 109 Scroll Designs Appropriate for a Sleigh 111 CAA Trip to World Championships, Poznan 112 Greg Rogers and the Rogers Funeral Home 114 G. W. Shaw 118 The Two Intrepids 121 DEPARTMENTS The View from the Box 90 Questions and Answers 97 Memories-Mostly Horsy 100 Name That Carriage 106 Book Reviews 124 The Carriage Trade 125
THE BICENTENNIAL WAGON TRAIN PILGRIMAGE . THE CARRIAGE TRADE JIM SELBY OF THE "OLD TIMES" FIRE AT THE HAWTHORN MELLODY FARM PAINT MAKING IN LONDON IN THE EARLY PART OF THIS CENTURY, by Gordon]. Offord KEEPING COOL THE CHARLESTON HORSE-DI AP ER STORY MUSEUMS AND CARRIAGE COLLECTIONS IN 1976 . GEORGE STUBBS AND THE HORSE IN HARNESS, by Mrs. S. A Walk er LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ORGANISING A COMBINED DRIVING EVENT - PART II, bv Mrs. Robert Pirie . THE EQUIP AGES OF NEW YORK A CHRISTMAS WREATH FOR THE LIBRARY POLISH CRACOW HARNESS MAGNER'S BREAKING RIG A PERSONAL VIEW OF INTERNATIONAL DRIVING, by H.R./J. Prince Philip
THE PASSING SCENE, by Postboy THE HAZARDS OF COACHING IN AUSTRALIA, by K. A. Austin THE RUNAWAY - AND SOME INVENTORS' SUGGESTIONS FOR DEALING WITH HIM "SPEEDING LIKE THE WIND" TROIKA DRIVING IS STILL PART OF LIFE IN RUSSIA THE 20th ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE C.A.A KENTUCY HORSE PARK, by Thomas A. Strohfeldt A GOLF TRAP WHAT IS A TRAP? by Tom Ryder DRIVING MANIA, by Margot Thompson LETTERS TO THE EDITOR CARRIAGE RESTORATION QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS BOOK REVIEWS THE SHILLIBEER OMNIBUS, by Anne Vines