Harold Francis Bergan
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Harold Francis Bergan
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Sheri Johnson
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06/15/2014
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AncientFaces
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07/02/2014
Look closely - those are carriages being transported by flatcar with little Harold Bergan riding on top. I don't know about you, but in the back of my head I always thought of carriages as being handcrafted - one of a kind or locally made. Here's a train full!
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Love that pic. How exciting to be riding on top.
We are all wusses these days. Won't even drink out of a garden hose.
So brave they were.
We are all wusses these days. Won't even drink out of a garden hose.
So brave they were.
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i'm a wuss, & I drink from garden hoses. btw, have u ever ridden a buggy or farm truck as they were called? knocks the silly putty outta ur back & kidneys. try it. u won't like it.
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I've drank from a horse trough before, swam in stock tanks too..
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not sure he's brave but I think it could possibly been dangerous. just saying. Lol.
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Where were these carriage made? Where was this pic taken? I live in Amesbury MA and in the day, we were the Detroit of carriage making. Our carriages were sent all over the country.
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from Haverhill. usta attend church in Merrimac & Amesbury.
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Beautiful! I lived next to train tracks for years and saw a lot of exciting things being transported by rail
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Yes, me 2! The circus, cattle, derailment, cars/ trucks...,as well as the usual things....
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A major carriage and wagon company stood at the end of my street in Marshallville, Ohio. They later built commercial vehicles such as the hearse and the Weiner mobile. Their name was Gerstenslager. They are still in business in Wooster, Ohio.
Dorothy Currier
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07/02/2014
Yes, I thot of carriages in the same way!
Ellie DeVault
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07/02/2014
Wealthier people probably would order carriages and have them delivered
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out west they called them "buck boards" don't exactly know why but as a kid in old tuscon rode in one of them and have rode in a stagecoach as well as a regular carriage.....the fancier the ride the nicer the springs and suspension was......lol
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I always thought the same thing. But back in the 70's I saw an old sears catalogue and you could actually purchase them and have them shipped by train anywhere in the states. I am sure there were other companies all around the world that did the same. Before learning you can order and buy anything you dream of even automobiles from a book I also thought they were made by local craftsmen.
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CARRIAGE MAKING was a craft that sort of 'morphed' into car body manufacture. Actually, Henry Ford's first cars had wooden floor boards and he also had the crates they were shipped in,the cars, used to replace them, a true 'recycler' before it became popular. Making a spoked wheel is an art and the original Model T's had spoked wheels.
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Charles Potts
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07/13/2014
Thought so as well. As I think though a bunch of early car makers originally built carriages.
Jeanet Groenink
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07/30/2014
Could have been manufactered at large quantities at that time... perhaps for the army...
Roxy Triebel
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10/18/2014
The ones on the right side of the photo appear to be two-wheeled vehicles - limbers or caissons. This is undoubtedly a military train of some kind.
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Carriage manufacturing was fully industrialized by 1850. In 1876 Studebaker Bros claimed they could make a wagon every seven minutes. Their plant in South Bend covered 96 acres and they shipped by rail carriages to respositories all over the US.
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