Farm wagon
H. R. Waiting
Category
Models
Date
1937
Materials
Wood, Paint, Iron
Measurements
350 x 227 mm; 870 mm (Length)
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Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1338935
Summary
Model of a Somerset farm wagon. Bow body. Exterior painted blue. Interior, wheels and chassis painted red. Curved barge rails projected outwards by multiple dowels. Hay racks front and rear. Red shafts with iron slider bar, hinged to front bar of axle assembly. 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.12 Somerset 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 12 - bought 2nd June 1935 for £28 Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.
Marks and inscriptions
Somerset
Makers and roles
H. R. Waiting
References
Wade, 1944: Charles Paget Wade, Contents of Snowshill Manor. Volume 5 Second Floor, 1944, Page 83