Child's cart
Category
Carriages & other vehicles
Date
Unknown
Materials
Wood and metal
Measurements
1700 mm (length); 476 mm (width); 485 mm (height)
Collection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 670783
Summary
A child's wooden pull-along cart. The rear half comprises a seat with high arm rests. Threaded through the arm rests, through the seat to the base are fourteen vertical rods. Two metal rods run through the arm rests, through the seat to the base at front of the wooden rods. Two revolving wooden wheels with metal tyres are attached to a wooden axel underneath the base. Protruding from the front of the base is a metal rod, the other end of which is attached to a metal collar on a wooden drum. Attached to the base of the drum are two wooden forks which hold the front wooden wheel at the bottom. At the top of the forks is a hinged wooden shaft with a cross bar handle at the front.
Marks and inscriptions
On the shield shaped metal plate on top of the wooden drum: 'THE OLD/ ALTHORP/ CART./ 1700'