Wagon Collection (page 16)

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

Machine for testing wagon springs
The Worlds First Railway Laboratory was set up at Crewe in 1864. One hundred years later, the Duke of Edinburgh opened new engineering research laboratories at Derby

Railway Cart Overturned - London Strike
A Railway Cart, overturned outside Paddington Station whilst conveying goods of the Keevil Ham Company to their warehouse, during a Strike in London, August 10th, 1911

Constantine, Algeria - The Bridge and suburb of El-Kantara

Turkish Ox Cart - Gallipoli
Turkish ox-cart - Gallipoli. Note the three-block solid wheels, a technology dating back to the earliest wheels depicted in relief carvings from the ancient near Eastern/Mesopotamian civilisations

A Hunting Cheetah - India
A hunting cheetah is carried in an ox-pulled cart to the place where game are to be hunted. The huntsmen follow and call back the animal when it has caught the prey (often antelope)

Wagon driver - Madhya Pradesh - India
A young Indian man driving a wagon in the Madhya Pradesh Province, India. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Patriotic Black Sea Turkish Horse Display Team
The Black Sea Turkish Patriotic Horse Display Team in action

Turkish Woman in their wagon
Turkish women with attendants in their traditional covered (and lavishly decorated) wagon, drawn by oxen

Early convertible on a car ferry
An early convertible car on a car ferry alongsode a large cart/wagon and a couple of lads with a bicycle

Carriage for the transportation of women
Disused carriage used traditionally for transporting women - could have been pulled by an ox or a horse. Canvas sides with rolling doors

The Yeni Cami Mosque
The Yeni Cami ( New Mosque of the Valide Sultan ) in Constantinople, Turkey. Standing at the Stamboul end of the Galata Bridge

Charcoal works - Quay de Grenelle, Paris
Piles of wood at a charcoal works, Paris

Charcoal production - wood storage, France
Charcoal works at Quay de Grenelle, Paris. A horse-drawn wagon is loaded up

Returning home postcard
A lovely postcard of a donkey wagon laden with luggage to be sent to inform friends and relatives of the date of return from holiday in Bermuda

Winter supplies 1917
British troops helping push a horse and wagon through the snow near Hesdin on the British Front in France during World War I on 20th December 1917

Filling working horse collars
A rural craftsmans fillas a collar for a working horse with straw. Watercolour Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Carpenters building a wagon
Three carpenters working on a wooden wagon, using traditional tools and techniques. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Azerbaijan - Transporting bricks
An Azerbaijani builders merchant with his horse-drawn wagon filled with red bricks

Hay Harvesting, National Childrens Home, Edgworth, Lancs
Boys harvesting hay at the National Childrens Home, Edgworth, near Bolton, Lancashire. They carry pitchforks and a horse-drawn wagon is fully loaded

Peasant revolt in Romania: types of the agrarian agitators
A page from the Illustrated London News showing the kind of Romanian people purported to be involved in the peasants revolt which began in March 1907

Bartholomew Fair (1721)
Coloured, semi-circular illustration of Bartholomew Fair (1721), with small text giving the history of the fair, published by J. F. Setchel, London, c1820. HPF/5C/47

Bulgaria - Varn - a Mosque
A Mosque at Varn, Bulgaria. Easy to miss, but important not to ignore are the two bears being led along the street!

Italy - Ox Wagon
An Ox wagon heading along a steeply-descending lane through an Italian village, transporting a large load of wood

Chinese carriage
A superb photograph postcard depicting a Chinese carriage, pulled by a white mule, carrying a couple of finely dressed Chinese ladies

English postman
A postman collects the mail from a red letterbox on a snowy winter morning

Bartholemew Mitre Street in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Wagons and horses
Horse drawn wagons and horses on a farm in Australia

Alberta, Canada - The Edmonton to Strathcona Ferry
Alberta, Canada - The Edmonton to Strathcona Cable Ferry - bearing a horse and cart and a large amount of cut timber

Surabaya, Indonesia - Street Scene
Street scene of the capital of the Eastern Province - Java, Indonesia - now known as Surabaya, previously known as Soerbaja (formerly in the Dutch East Indies)

Manchester Ship Canal - Railway and warehouses
Manchester Ship Canal - Railway line and mulit-storey warehouses. The trade coming through the Ship Canal (often originating from Ireland)

Manchester Ship Canal - Beef Carcasses for London
A chalk scrawl on the wagon door records that 1000 beef carcasses were transported in these wagons from the offload on the Manchester Ship Canal down to final destination of Smithfield Market, London

Wheelwrights - Mandu, Madhya Pradesh
Wheelwrights at work near Mandu, Madhya Pradesh Province, India attach metal rims to large cart wheels. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Village walls - Madhya Pradesh - India
Scene outside the walls of a large village or small town in the Madhya Pradesh Province of India. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Denver, Colorado, USA - Cherrelyn Horse Car. The horse is taking a breather on the car itself!!

Pinner, Middlesex
The main street of Pinner, near Harrow, Middlesex

Brighton Works brass plates
Two brass plates for the Brighton railway works, and a smaller metal plate for the Bristol Wagon & Carriage Works

Supply train 1916
French horse drawn supply train in Flanders on the French front during World War I in 1916

Paranagua Mule-powered Railway, Brazil
A mule-drawn railway wagon on the waterfront at the port Paranagua, in southern Brazil

Aden - Yemen - Native Camel Cart

Egypt - Ladies taken for a ride on a cart
A group of Egyptian women taken for a ride on cart

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