A six-horse Conestoga Wagon of the type which carried freight across Pennsylvania in the first half of the nineteenth century. From the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. Smithsonian Photo #74-1415 by AlfredHarrell. Copyright 1993 Smithsonian Institution.

The scale drawings listed below are available for purchase from the Smithsonian Institution by mail only. (No telephone, charge, Internet, or walk-in orders please.) The drawings are recommended for making scale models but may be insufficiently detailed for building full-scale carriages or wagons. There is no charge for postage or handling.

Please note: prints and drawings are not for resale, and no other drawings are available. All vehicles are American designs except where noted.

Please mail your request with a check or money order (made payable to Smithsonian Institution) to:

CARRIAGE DRAWINGS
Transportation Collections
Smithsonian Institution
PO Box 37012
NMAH 5004, MRC 628
Washington, DC 20013-7012

LARGE-FORMAT XEROX SHEETS (Limit of 12 copies per order. Price per selection is $10.00. In addition there is a $5.00 service charge PER ORDER [not per drawing]. Please indicate the number and the name for each selection ordered.)

1. Conestoga Wagon, 1825
2. Concord Coach (stagecoach), 1848
3. Farm Sled, 1870
4. 4-Passenger Sleigh, 1895
5. Heavy Truck, 1898
6. Heavy Platform Wagon, 1898
7. Ice Wagon, 1900
8. Milk Wagon, 1900
9. Bike Wagon, 1905

PHOTOCOPIES, 8 1/2" x 11" (Small sheets with drawings and descriptions, two to four pages. Drawings are too small to provide detail. Price per selection is $1.50. Please indicate the number and the name for each selection ordered)

1. Ambulance, Hospital (civilian type), 1890
2. Break, Excursion 35-passenger (French), 1889
3. Brougham, 1898
4. Brougham, (fancy), 1892
5. Buckboard, Two-passenger, 1902
6. Buggy, Elliptical spring (piano-box), 1894
7. Buggy, New style (no-top), 1894
8. Buggy, Physician's, 1895
9. Buggy, Spider, 1896
10. Buggy, Spindle seat, 1898
11. Cabriolet, 1893
12. Cabriolet, Brewster, 1894
13. Cutter, Light (Portland sleigh), 1897
14. Cutter, One-passenger Speeding, 1904
15. Cutter, (Portland OG back), 1893
16. Hansom Cab, 1899
17. Landau, 1892
18. Omnibus, (private), 1897
19. Omnibus, (public), 1855
20. Phaeton, Basket, 1899
21. Rockaway, Coupe, 1897
22. Rockaway, Extension front, 1895
23. Runabout, Low-wheel pneumatic tire, 1897
24. Sulky, 1905
25. Surrey, Extension (canopy)-top, 1893
26. Surrey, Four-passenger (no-top), 1898
27. Trap, Four-springed, 1895
28. Truck, Heavy (Crane-necked), 1900
29. Victoria, Loop, 1892
30. Wagon, Dry-goods delivery, 1894
31. Wagon, Depot, 1893
32. Wagon, Express, 1891
33. Wagon, Library traveling, 1910
34. Wagon, One-horse (delivery), 1896

The following magazines contain articles and advertisements that may be useful to makers of full-size and scale model carriages and wagons:

The Carriage Journal, R.D. 1, Box 115, Salem, NJ 08079

Driving Digest Magazine, P.O. Box 110, New London, OH 44851-0110

OTHER SOURCES

Drawings of carriages and wagons are available from the following sources outside the Smithsonian. Please contact these addresses directly to request prices and ordering information. This information is provided for your convenience, is not intended to be comprehensive, and does not constitute an endorsement by the Smithsonian Institution.

Circus Model Builders, (Attn: Eric W. Doyle), 413 Helfer Lane, Minoa, New York 13116, phone 315 656-7032. Maintains a file of drawings of varying quality for show wagons. The older plans are suitable for model making, some of the more recent plans are quite exquisite in detail.

Kayo Fraser, Wild Horse Books & Art, 255 Boulder Road, Deer Lodge, MT 59722 (Phone: 406/846-3686, e-mail: info@wildhorsebooks.com; web: http://www.wildhorsebooks.com/Plans.htm . Source for plans by Ivan Collins, John Thompson, Wagonmaster and Southwest Wagon & Wheel Works; plans for the Army Escort Wagon and the 20-mule team Borax Wagon. Also a line of books on horse drawn vehicles.

Midwest Carriage, P.O. Box 0024, Mentor, OH 44060-0024 (Phone: 440/257-9554, e-mail: mcarriage@aol.com). Source for John Thompson's plans.

Nederlandse Vereniging van Modebouwers, Van der Hestlaan 5, 1412 HG Naarden, Netherlands. Members contribute their drawings to a bank of technical drawings from which every one can order copies from the club's own printer shop (members with reduced rates). The majority of the subjects are farm vehicles and business wagons drawn up in the 1:8 (12/2" to the foot) scale.

Oregon Historical Society, 1200 S.W. Park Avenue, Portland, OR 97205-2483, phone 503-222-1741, e-mail: orhist@ohs.org, http://www.ohs.org. Ivan Collins was a very prolific and foremost model builder from 1937 to 1970. The Oregon Historical Society has acquired his collection and now sells the drawings that Ivan Collins drafted to make his models.

W. Hobbey (Wholesale) Ltd, Knight's Hill Square, London SE27 OHH, United Kingdom. (Phone: 0181 76 14244). Source for John Thompson's plans.

William West, Wagonmaster Plans, P. O. Box 1034, Mukilteo, WA 98275-1034.

Prepared by the Division of the History of Technology,
Transportation Collections, National Museum
of American History, in cooperation with the
Public Inquiry Mail Service, Smithsonian Institution

PIMS/TRA04/12-01

Red Concord-style stage coach (1851).
Drivers of these passenger coaches contracted with the Post Office Department to carry the mail.
From the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. Smithsonian Photo #93-7469. Copyright 1994 Smithsonian Institution

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