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Baker's Cart of City Bakery

An American photograph of a four wheeled Bakers Cart being driven by a lady with a male companion. C…

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Victorian Ladies with a Battlesden Car

A rather comical photograph of four Victorian ladies and a Battlesden Cart.A Battlesden Car was a va…

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Growler

A Growler for a single horse. This carriage was a working vehicle and has an angular profile and mai…

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Travelling Coach

A Travelling Coach for a team of four or six horses in original unused condition. The coach has a co…

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State Coach

McNaught Co were a good firm of coachbuilders but perhaps not really known for producing State Coac…

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Tyrwhitt-Drake Museum of Carriages

Located on Mill Street in the centre of Maidstone, the Tyrwhitt-Drake Museum of Carriages offers an…

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Sedan Chair

Being of a large size this Sedan Chair would have required more than two chairmen to carry it. It wa…

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Clarence

A carriage that is long since past its prime.Country estates and town households would have had a fl…

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Sediola

The Sediola is an Italian gig used by wealthy gentlemen in cities but also used to travel across the…

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Sedan Chair

A Westminster arch-roof sedan chair dating from around 1760 with highly polished and japanned black…

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Landau

A Landau of standard shape and proportions for a team of four horses, with a folding leather hood, S…

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Travelling Chariot

A travelling Chariot for a team of four horses. This is one of the earliest carriages in the collect…

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Private Drag Coach

A very well appointed coach in original condition. There are a few unusual features such as the brac…

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Britzschka

Britzschka for a team of horses built in the early 19th century by Tapp Co London. The body is spru…

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Hansom Cab outside Liberty's, London

A photograph of a Hansom Cab outside the Libertys department store in London.The first Hansom cab wa…

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Herring, John Frederick Senior

John Frederick Herring was born in London in 1795. Herring spent the first eighteen years of his lif…