Farm wagon
H. R. Waiting
Category
Models
Date
1936
Materials
Paint, Wood, Iron
Measurements
230 x 223 mm; 750 mm (Length)
Order this imageCollection
Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1338927
Summary
Model of a 'Lincolnshire' farm wagon. Box body. Exterior painted yellow. Interior, wheels and chassis painted red. Open at rear (no rear board). Wide barge rails supported on iron brackets. Red shafts with iron slider bars. 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.3 Lincolnshire 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 3 - bought 8th May 1936 for £25 10s Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.
Marks and inscriptions
Lincolnshire
Makers and roles
H. R. Waiting
References
Wade, 1944: Charles Paget Wade, Contents of Snowshill Manor. Volume 5 Second Floor, 1944, Page 83