Wagon Collection (page 15)

Mule wagons crossing desert, South Africa, WW1
Mule wagons crossing the 500-mile waterless desert between Kimberley (Northern Cape, South Africa) and Keetmanshoop (now South Namibia, then German South West Africa) during the First World War

Westinghouse Railway Works, Manchester
Machine shop aisle Westinghouse Train Works, Manchester, Lancashire, England. circa 1906

Greek brigands
A group of Greek brigands attack Lord Muncasters coach party near Athens. 1870

French army retreat from Arroyo de Molinos, 1811
French army retreat from Arroyo de Molinos after General Rowland Hill had defeated Giraud. Date: 26 October 1811

Carload of Mammoth Navel Oranges
A frankly ridicuolous carload of Mammoth American Navel Oranges! Date: 1909

British and French soldiers, Bas Maisnil, France, WW1
Two British officers (Davidson and Churchill) of the 1st Cameronians (Cameron Highlanders) with two French artillerymen, alongside a 75mm French field gun and ammunition wagon at Bas Maisnil

Guinness Brewery, Dublin - Scald Bank
Unloading empty casks at the Guinness Brewery, Dublin - Scald Bank. Date: 1920

Chile - Taltal - Part of the Station
Chile - Taltal (a Chilean commune and city in Antofagasta Province, Antofagasta Region) - Part of the Station Date: circa 1908

Pontorson - The Brittany Hotel on Rue Couesnon
Pontorson, France - The Brittany Hotel on Rue Couesnon Date: circa 1910s

Gods Provident House - Chester
Gods Provident House - Watergate Street, Chester. This building is famous for its inscription on the front reading: Gods providence is mine inheritance

Pau, France - Ox Wagon carrying sticks
A Farmer with his laden Ox Wagon at Pau, France, close to the border with Spain and the Pyrenees Mountains. Date: circa 1910s

Farmer and laden ox cart
Farmer and his Oxen cart transporting a large volume of hay - Bearnais region. Date: circa 1910s

Appalusia Horse-pulled cart - from the Altai Region of Russia. Date: circa 1910s

Broken Axle - South Africa
A wagon with a broken axle - " 70 miles from anywhere" ! - South Africa. How lucky a travelling photographer was on hand to assist....! Date: circa 1904

Harvest - Gathering the Hay

Ole. Tonnesen, blacksmith and wagon shop, Iowa

Old wheels of the famous twenty mule team Borax wagons, Death Valley, California

Twenty mule team wagons used for hauling borax out of Death Valley, Barstow, California. Those twenty mule team Borax wagons, seen on the railway station platform at Barstow

Wagon Raceing at a rodeo, america

Wagon of Russ Van Vleet, a mobile butcher
Henrey Castel, wagon of Russ Van Vleet, a mobile butcher, hollinssworth bros

Circus zebras pulling a wagon in a street in America

A boy in a custom made cart, drawn by a pet sheep
An American boy, dressed as an American Indian, in a custom made cart, drawn by a pet sheep, America

Steam powered vehicle, South Wales
A steam powered vehicle made by the Patent Steam Car and Wagon Company of Leeds, being driven along a road somewhere in South Wales

Municipal Dairy women, South Wales
A group of seven women working for the Municipal Dairy pose outside the dairy building, somewhere in South Wales. Two churn wagons, each one holding a large milk churn, can be seen in front of them

Durham Gaol, Elvet, County Durham
A view of Durham Gaol at Elvet, County Durham. A horse and wagon and some of the prison staff are in front of the building. The building was erected in 1810

Czech guards at Kurgan1918
Czech guards guard a provisions wagon, clad in suitable clothing for the freezing temperatures at Kurgan, Russia

Italy - Sicilian Donkey Wagon (Carro)
Italy - A beautifully decorated Sicilian Donkey Wagon (Carro) with a load of children!

Italy - Transporting Grape Juice, Bologna

Summerleaze Sands, Bude. A workman collects sand in a small wagon on a rudimentary railway running across the beach, pulled by a horse

Georgia - Buffalo-pulled wagon - Abkhazia
An Buffalo-pulled wagon of the Mingrelian (or Megrelian) people, a regional subgroup of the Georgian people found in west Georgia and east Abkhazia

Georgia - Coronation Day 1896 - eating a picnic
Georgia - Coronation Day 1896 - eating a celebration picnic at Mtzchet

Georgia - A group of Georgian Pilgrims

Georgia - Tbilisi - Man selling delivering water in ox skins
Extraorinary sight of a man selling/delivering water in whole ox skins (!) near Tbilisi, the capital (and largest) city in Georgia - formerly known as Tiflis

Picardie, France - children in traditional costume. A dog takes breather from pulling a small milk cart, filled with metal pales

Street scene in provincial France - A tradesman stand by his mule wagon chatting to the gentleman on the right, who is carrying a brace of chicken wrapped up in a black cloth

Luchon, France - Ox-drawn cart
Luchon, Pyrenees - southern France (famed for its thermal springs). Farmer with his ox-drawn cart and children

India - Rewa Elephant Coach - a very grandly-adorned wagon, pulled by a pair of highly-decorated elephants. Used to transport Maharajahs

Victoria Cafe, Berlin - Friedrichstrasse
The Victoria Cafe on Friedrichstrasse, Berlin

Wagon laden with fiasco Chianti bottles
Unloading bottles of Chianti - Tuscany, Italy. Chianti was (for many many years) historically associated with these squat bottles enclosed in a straw basket (called a fiasco )

Battle of the Scarpe WWI
After a direct hit on a German ammunition wagon in Monchy-le-Preux during the Battle of the Scarpe at the Battle of Arras during World War I

Postal Service Jubilee card - Prague, Czechoslovakia
A card celebrating the 40th anniversary (1887 - 1927) of the start of the Prague postal and telegraph service, by land and now by air too!

Marshall Britannia Boiler transported - India
The transportation of a Marshall Britannia boiler across the Indian countryside by a vast team of oxen and men. Many thousands of portable steam engines were made between the 1840s and 1920s

St Marys - The Atlantic Hotel - Donkey Cart
St Marys Island, Isles of Scilly - The Atlantic Hotel - Donkey Cart used to transport your baggage from the harbour up to the hotel

Belgium - Antwerp - Working Dock Horses
Belgium - Antwerp - working horses on the dock. Here this horse team transport a set of barrels along the cobbled quayside streets

Bastion on Roman Wall - Colchester

13th Centuary Monastery
Watercolour study of the buildings of a 13th century Monastery by Raymond Sheppard

The Wharf - Colombo, Sri Lanka

Istanbul, Turkey - Horse-drawn cart

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