Hay wagon
H. R. Waiting
Category
Models
Date
1933
Materials
Wood, Paint, Iron
Measurements
326 x 222 mm; 930 mm (Length)
Order this imageCollection
Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1338918
Summary
Model of a Berkshire hay wagon on four wheels. Bow body. Exterior painted yellow. Interior, wheels and chassis painted red. Single barge rails projected out over wheels by multiple dowels. Curved hay racks fitted front and rear (rear one larger). Red shafts fitted with iron slider bars. Wheels single width with iron tyres. Brake chain and chock brake on a chain. In notebook no.5, page 83 (1340945.5) Charles Wade refers to: 'The Large Garret Land Transport MODELS Country Wagons, built by H.R. Waiting of Boxwood, painted by C.P.W. scale 1½" = 1ft all constructed as the actual wagon, with Real tenons & every bolt & detail is carefully shown. Full details & specification of each is in the Snowshill Chest in the Gallery Room. no.13 Berkshire Yellow'. 'The skill of the Country Wheelwright is well shown in the set of model wains, made for me so perfectly by Mr. H. R. WAITING. This collection of models will be a valuable record in days to come, as the Wheelwrights craft is now a dead art. Each of these models was built from careful measurements taken from an actual old wain, every bolt and detail is accurately shown to 1 ½” scale'. (Charles Wade, Haphazard Notes Volume 2, page 96-97)
Provenance
CPW item 13 - bought 13th March 1933 for £25 Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.
Marks and inscriptions
Berkshire
Makers and roles
H. R. Waiting
References
Wade, 1944: Charles Paget Wade, Contents of Snowshill Manor. Volume 5 Second Floor, 1944, Page 83