Horse-drawn vehicles - help?
Apr. 5th, 2013 07:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xenithI was going to add some horse-drawn vehicle photos to my photo-reference blog, but the one of which I have most photos (e.g. close-ups) are the ones from Clarendon estate, which don't have handy panels telling me what they are. I also don't know enough to start working out what they are, other than spending many hours glaring at websites.
So on the chance someone might know more than me (or be able to point someone who does know to this page, or me to a page that shows all the various types of carts & carriages on one convenient page with notes pointing out their identifying features), I'm posting photos of them below.
Two sideways-facing seats. Having said all that above, I think I might have worked this one out.
This one is in the background of the first photo. There are a lot of small, four-wheeled carriages. Two seats back to back (dos-a-dos :) and under the seats a compartment that opens at the back. Actually I might know that one too. I'll have to have a look.
I would have put it just as a wagon, but there are holes cuts along the sides which suggests some specific purpose. Also, decoration and name on the sides makes it look like a commerical vechicle. ("H. Gillett, Wetmore" it says on the other side, but that's a large sheep property at ROss (Romney Marsh (dual purpose), it seems.)) It's also very high but that's not apparent in this photo. Also, it must be backwards, because the smaller wheels and turning part should be at the front. (Yes, I have been looking at lots of wagon photos.)
This big beast of a thing I'll probably tag as "wagon, farm" but it leaves me wondering if there is some point where generic magon becomes a dray, or a farm wagen, or a wool wagon, rather than just generic wagon. Eh.
So on the chance someone might know more than me (or be able to point someone who does know to this page, or me to a page that shows all the various types of carts & carriages on one convenient page with notes pointing out their identifying features), I'm posting photos of them below.
Two sideways-facing seats. Having said all that above, I think I might have worked this one out.
This one is in the background of the first photo. There are a lot of small, four-wheeled carriages. Two seats back to back (dos-a-dos :) and under the seats a compartment that opens at the back. Actually I might know that one too. I'll have to have a look.
I would have put it just as a wagon, but there are holes cuts along the sides which suggests some specific purpose. Also, decoration and name on the sides makes it look like a commerical vechicle. ("H. Gillett, Wetmore" it says on the other side, but that's a large sheep property at ROss (Romney Marsh (dual purpose), it seems.)) It's also very high but that's not apparent in this photo. Also, it must be backwards, because the smaller wheels and turning part should be at the front. (Yes, I have been looking at lots of wagon photos.)
This big beast of a thing I'll probably tag as "wagon, farm" but it leaves me wondering if there is some point where generic magon becomes a dray, or a farm wagen, or a wool wagon, rather than just generic wagon. Eh.
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Date: 2013-04-07 06:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-04-07 06:53 am (UTC)It does. Having just spent 10 minutes poking around it :)