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Fred Scott,
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TRADESMENS' COMMERCIAL
VEHICLES
We have a nice assortment of elegant
carriages that were used by the prosperous gentry,
sometimes known as the "carriage trade,"
and they are really delightful, but here on this page
are our commercial vehicles. We also have agricultural
horse-drawn implements that are fully-functional.
Bundoran Hitch Wagon, previously a commercial delivery
van. Today we use it - and the waggonette below - for
carriage rides and picnics out on our pastures and hillsides.
Swab Commercial van, now our Hitch
Waggonette
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COMMERCIAL
VANS:
These massive and most impressive tradesmen's vehicles
were used for delivery of trade goods and were often
highly decorated to serve the additional purpose of
advertising the tradesman's business enterprise.
THE BOWMAN SIX-UP with our Keg Wagon at Great Meadow
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We used the Keg Wagon, most often with
four horses, to promote the Bowman
products, and the Faulconer
Delivery Wagon promotes a hardware store.
These vehicles were designed to be pulled
by heavy draft horses, which had the power to move
these extremely heavy loads. Rarely seen today, these
big teams and wagons are truly impressive in a parade
setting or in film production.
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American Commercial & Tradesmen's Vehicles
include:
Bundoran Delivery Wagon and Blue Swab Waggonette, (shown
above)
Keg Wagon or Truck (shown above), used by the Bowman
Companies
Studebaker Water/Wine Wagon which we took to the
Barboursville Vineyard
Faulconer Hardware Delivery
Wagon
a military 1870 U. S. Army Escort Wagon |
European Tradesmen's Vehicles include:
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Jersey (Isle of) Van, routinely used in the 1890's to
haul potatoes to the seaside docks in the Channel Islands.
This van carries the fancy style of carriagework used
by elegant coaching vehicles from England, and would
have been owned by a prosperous farmer.
Shown here with its holiday waggonette seats added.
These were removable to turn the vehicle back into its
workaday self on Mondays. |
c.1890; English Delivery Van, used by tradesmen throughout
England. Its heavy composition top kept out the English
damp.
And we are flexible if you are creative!!
Perhaps you would enjoy having us hitch
up a horse team for
you as a part of a private
reception for your friends at your place or at our
carriage house, or driving
to a picnic on a hillside
like these?
Contact our event managers
to set it up; we'd love to be a part of your next big
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Pre-1900 Norman Charette or French Farmer's Cart, used
for hauling sheep, pigs, or chickens to market, or.........
Queen Marie Antoinette to the guillotine!
or.. holding flowers at Jennifer
and Greg Love's lovely post wedding reception.
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and
a 1900 Irish Jaunting Car
Typically Irish, this vehicle - made in Killarney -
would carry four passengers, one driver, and luggage
behind one heavy horse.
It was the Irish commercial taxi, and is sometimes called
a "courting cart"
A very efficient use of horsepower. |
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