Farm wagon
H. R. Waiting
Category
Models
Date
1934
Materials
Wood, Paint, Iron
Measurements
205 x 209 mm; 550 mm (Length)
Order this imageCollection
Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1338921
Summary
Model of a Radnor County farm wagon on two wheels. Ladder chassis, no body, all painted red. Four vertical wooden spikes, one at each corner, and slatted racks to guard wheels. No shafts. Single width wheels with iron tyres. 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.9 Radnor Wheel Car. Red' '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 9 Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.
Marks and inscriptions
Radnorshire
Makers and roles
H. R. Waiting
References
Wade, 1944: Charles Paget Wade, Contents of Snowshill Manor. Volume 5 Second Floor, 1944, Page 83