Online Catalogue last updated 15th of September 2008
Edited by Don H. Berkebile.
Journey back to a bygone era when city streets and country roads thronged with a rich assortment of horse-powered vintage vehicles: ice wagons, drays, lunch wagons, delivery trucks, fire engine, buggies, carts, log wagons, stagecoaches, hearses, and many more.
You'll find them all in this treasury of over 250 authentic illustrations - many inaccessible elsewhere-depicting a wide variety of commercial conveyances of long ago. The author, a former member of the curatorial staff of the Smithsonian Institution's Division of Transportation, has carefully selected detailed engravings of the period, many from rare trade periodicals in the collection of the Smithsonian, as well as photographs. Well-researched captions accompany the illustrations, focusing on how the design of each vehicle served its specific purposes and needs, and supplying various dimensions, colouring, and other details. The author has also written an engrossing historical introduction that sharply defines the development of commercial vehicles in an age of headlong expansion and industrial advancement.
Code No. 010119, 148 pages, ISBN 0486260208, $28.00