Farm Carts & Wagons.

[powerrabbit]

I thought that this might make a good topic, something you see very little of, only at shows and events and ver rare to find on the open market, farm carts and wagons. These are often in a large scale and made from wood and metal and the really large models are good with the largest scale china/porcelain draught horses such as those made by Beswick and Melba with harness. Here are a couple that I aquired at different times from a car boot sale, one is the arcatypical design farm tipping cart and a better more detailed dairymans cart. Both made of wood with brass and copper metal fittings and painted detail embelishments, a bit hard to se in these pictures but the farm cart does tip when you pull out the long pin and the tailboard lifts out. The milk cart has proper axle leaf springs, hinged fold down boards on the rear either side the step and metal mudguards. With the shafts they are both ove a foot in length which will give you some idea of their size. I do have another farm cart complete with horse but I'll add that one later.

[NIGEL FORD]

I thought that this might make a good topic, something you see very little of, only at shows and events and ver rare to find on the open market, farm carts and wagons. These are often in a large scale and made from wood and metal and the really large models are good with the largest scale china/porcelain draught horses such as those made by Beswick and Melba with harness. Here are a couple that I aquired at different times from a car boot sale, one is the arcatypical design farm tipping cart and a better more detailed dairymans cart. Both made of wood with brass and copper metal fittings and painted detail embelishments, a bit hard to se in these pictures but the farm cart does tip when you pull out the long pin and the tailboard lifts out. The milk cart has proper axle leaf springs, hinged fold down boards on the rear either side the step and metal mudguards. With the shafts they are both ove a foot in length which will give you some idea of their size. I do have another farm cart complete with horse but I'll add that one later.

I haven't been for a few years but the big Model Engineering exhibitions have had displays of some fantastic work by more than one craftsmen with examples of many of the various styles of wagon from different counties in quite large scale to see how much the designs varied across the UK. One chap also had about 80 different styles of wooden wheelbarrow too! On a different subject there are incredible small scale Merlin V12 & Radial engines etc that actually run there too. There's usually one in January at Olympia or Sandown Park racecourse, I think the Donington Park one would have been back in October(?)

I still have a couple of the "Paramount" kits of the Broad-wheeled Sussex wagon & the Royal Barouche somewhere,...lovely detail.

Edited November 26, 2012 by NIGEL FORD

[Leakeyvale]

I just love those carts especially the milk cart. Beautiful! I am a gentile shade of green although I do not collect items of that size. Except of course the Beswick horses that I started collecting as a teenager,

Oh dear I had forgotten that they are a collection too!

[NIGEL FORD]

January 18-20, 2013 Alexandra Palace, London, Model Engineering Show.

[powerrabbit]

Here's the horse and cart, the cart is a typical farm tipping cart with the extension sides or 'greedy-boards' as they are known. This cart was made by a local chap who had a timber buisness, he had a sawmill, supplying sawn timber to the local building trade and farmers, was also a carpenter and joiner, he was also the local funeral director and in his capacity as a carpenter joiner made coffins, the card is made from the scraps left over from his coffin making. The horse is a porcelain one, unmarked but it's better quality than those made by Melba so may be Beswick or another maker of equal quality. This horse was obtained from a house clearance/garage sale many years ago and came with a horrible wooden kit timber wagon. Horse measures 13" in total length and stands 11" high to the top of its ears and has a full leather harness.