Farm wagon
H. R. Waiting
Category
Models
Date
1937
Materials
Wood, Paint, Iron
Measurements
230 x 232 mm; 780 mm (Length)
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Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1338929
Summary
Model of a Shropshire farm wagon. box body. Exterior painted blue. Interior, wheels and chassis painted red. Solid side and front barge rails supported on iron brackets. Shafts red with iron slider bars. Double width wheels with iron tyres. Brake chains. 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.10 Shropshire Blue'. '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 10 - bought 11th October 1937 for £31.10s Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.
Marks and inscriptions
Shropshire
Makers and roles
H. R. Waiting
References
Wade, 1944: Charles Paget Wade, Contents of Snowshill Manor. Volume 5 Second Floor, 1944, Page 83