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Horse-drawn Carriages and Sleighs: Elegant Vehicles from New England and New Brunswick

by Peter Dickinson

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For many years some of the finest craftsmen throughout North America laboured in factories large and small to produce carriages and sleighs. This book celebrates their skills and artistry.This full-colour book presents the full range of vehicles they... Read more
For many years some of the finest craftsmen throughout North America laboured in factories large and small to produce carriages and sleighs. This book celebrates their skills and artistry.
This full-colour book presents the full range of vehicles they produced: carts, carriages, sleighs, buggies and slovens -- from the very grand opera bus to the functional ox wagon. The text looks at design developments, the variety of usage and technological details.
This book draws on one of the finest collections of horse-drawn vehicles in North America, at New Brunswick''s Kings Landing Settlement near Fredericton, with photographs were taken on site with animators in period costume and horses harnessed. It shows how the carriage-making industry in New Brunswick developed over time, relative to the development of roads. Less

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File size9.13 X 8.25 X 0.25 in
Print pages72
PublisherFormac Publishing Company Limited
Publication date October 22, 2003
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780887806162
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Peter Dickinson
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Peter Dickinson was born in Africa but raised and educated in England. From 1952 to 1969 he was on the editorial staff of Punch, and since then earned his living writing fiction of various kinds for...

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