Farm wagon
H. R. Waiting
Category
Models
Date
Unknown
Materials
Paint, Wood, Iron
Measurements
310 x 230 mm; 760 mm (Length)
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Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1338933
Summary
Model of a Northamptonshire farm wagon. Box body. Stone-coloured exterior paint. Interior, wheels and chassis painted red. Wide barge rails supported on brackets. Hay rack to front. Red shafts with iron slider bars, attached to extensions of axle carrier. Single width wheels with iron tyres. Chock brake hanging by 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.11 Northamptonshire Stone'. '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 11 - bought 2nd April 1934 for £27 Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.
Marks and inscriptions
Northamptonshire
Makers and roles
H. R. Waiting
References
Wade, 1944: Charles Paget Wade, Contents of Snowshill Manor. Volume 5 Second Floor, 1944, Page 83