Farm wagon
H. R. Waiting
Category
Models
Date
1937
Materials
Wood, Paint, Iron
Measurements
340 x 235 mm; 780 mm (Length)
Order this imageCollection
Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1338931
Summary
Model of a Dorset farm wagon. Box body. Exterior painted blue. Interior, wheels and chassis painted red. Wide barge rails supported on iron brackets. Hay racks front and rear, painted red. Red shafts with iron slider bars, pivoted to extensions of the axle carrier. Single width wheels with iron tyres. Brake chains and chock brakes. 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.8 Dorset Waggon 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 8 Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.
Marks and inscriptions
Dorset
Makers and roles
H. R. Waiting
References
Wade, 1944: Charles Paget Wade, Contents of Snowshill Manor. Volume 5 Second Floor, 1944, Page 83