May 26, 2012
Today, I offer some close-up views of the champion milk float and the adorable pony, Brookham Lodge Dallas.
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I was sad to have cut off the pony’s ears and the driver’s head in this photo, but I really like the view into the milk float, so I’m sharing it despite it being headless and ear-less
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May 25, 2012
… and the champion of the Light Trade Vehicles class was … (drum roll, please)
… the milk float!
Here are several views of it (and the adorable pony hitched to it) during the class, including a couple of views of the judge inspecting the turnout.
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Tomorrow, I’ll have some close-up details of the vehicle and the pony.
May 24, 2012
I have so many photos from the Light Trade Vehicles class at the Royal Windsor Horse Show that I’ll be sharing them with you in three parts.
Today: some of the various entries in the class, which featured a tailor’s vehicle, fruit-&-veg sellers’ wagons, a butcher’s cart, a small Royal Mail vehicle, a milk float, and more.
Tomorrow: the class champion. (Can you guess who it might’ve been?)
And Saturday: some of my favorite details from the champion vehicle.
Enjoy!
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This tailor’s vehicle was inspired by the owner/driver’s grandfather, who was a tailor:
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One of the two fruit-&-veg sellers’ wagons …
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… and three views of the other one:
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The butcher’s cart, and the butcher’s pony:
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The lovely small Royal Mail vehicle:
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And, finally, the beautiful milk float:
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March 25, 2012
As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, I’ll be sharing some lovely old images from a French book called Voitures & Attelages. Today, let’s look at a fancy Post Chaise from the era of Louis XV, who ruled France from 1715 until 1774 …
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March 24, 2012
Katharine came into my office yesterday and handed me a book. She had been looking in the CMA’s library for something and had come across a 1942 French publication called Voitures & Attelages. It’s full of beautiful engravings, each showing a different type of carriage and its accompanying harness. The text, of course, is all in French, but I assume that it would tell us about the various vehicles and how each one would’ve been turned out in its heyday. Interestingly, in each image, the vehicle, harness, and livery are all in color, while the horses and backgrounds are nearly all done as simple black-and-white line drawings, so that the important details really stand out.
Because these images serve as such wonderful references, I’m going to share most of them here with you over the next couple of weeks.
We’ll start — today and tomorrow — with two rather elaborate vehicles. Today’s is an elaborate coach from the era of Louis XIV, who ruled France from 1643 to 1715.
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