As I’m still hurrying working to finish the May issue of The Carriage Journal, I thought I’d give you a peek at (a portion of) the cover for this issue:
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April 15, 2011
the May issue of the magazine
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April 14, 2011
CAA members Roger & Sue Murray attended last weekend’s Western Vehicles Symposium in Santa Ynez, California. As one of its live demonstrations, the symposium featured a twenty-mule team.
Historically, twenty-mule teams are perhaps most famous for pulling frieght wagons filled with Borax out of California’s Death Valley.
In this instance (last weekend), the team pulled a number of freight wagons filled with symposium attendees. And Sue made a video!
After the team and wagons look like they’re too far away to see, wait for Sue to zoom in … and then watch for the mule jumping over the chain as the team turns.
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April 13, 2011
lunch at the races
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At the moment, I’m rushing working to finish up the May issue of The Carriage Journal.
I just scanned the image for the “Backward Glances” department, which features an old engraving or photograph in each issue, and thought I would share a small piece of it here. You’ll have to see the May issue for the full image of members of society sitting on their grandstand (a coach) at the races, eating their lunch.
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the lady on the left is eating her lunch, the lady in the center appears to be having a drink poured for her by the gentleman, and the lady on the right is waiting, with an empty glass, for him to pour her drink (from an engraving published in July 1870)
April 12, 2011
carriages and conservation
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Our “sister” organization, the Carriage Museum of America, is generally known as a (fantastic!) library & archives focusing on the history of horse-drawn transportation, carriage builders, and the like. But the CMA also has a collection of actual vehicles. The vehicles are in off-site storage, while the library and archives reside here in the CAA headquarters building.
Included in this year’s 40th Anniversary Carriage Auction, held by Martin Auctioneers in Lebanon, Penn., April 29-30, will be four vehicles that the CMA is deaccessioning from its Robert Fletcher collection. These four vehicles are a Brewster-made Skeleton Boot Victoria (c. 1890); a Brewster-made Bronson Wagon (1906); a Tandem Gig (c. 1895); and a Stanhope Gig (c. 1895).
The money raised from the sale of these four vehicles will go toward the conservation of a Chaise, built c. 1820.
This vehicle — one of the rare gems in the CMA’s permanent collection — was the two-wheeled version of a Booby Hut Sleigh. The body could be detached and used with the specially made sleigh cradle. Both pieces are currently being assessed by conservator Brian Howard.
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this Chaise was built c. 1820 and could be used as a wheeled vehicle ... (photo courtesy of the CMA)
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- … or, set on this cradle, as a sleigh (photo courtesy of the CMA)
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... it's in the CMA's permanent collection (photo courtesy of the CMA)
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... and it's currently being assessed for conservation (photo courtesy of the CMA)
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... four vehicles will be sold at Martin's Auction (this month) to fund the vehicle-conservation effort (photo courtesy of the CMA)
April 11, 2011
a depot omnibus
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This image, of Mr. Edwin Gould’s Depot Omnibus (“in front of his suburban residence”), appeared on the cover of the December 25, 1897, issue of Rider and Driver. According to the information included with the photo, this sort of vehicle was “also suitable for holiday house parties and the theater, the coachman usually to be, properly, accompanied by a second man.”
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The Slower Road 