Horse-drawn carriages
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Pompadour stud farm has kept
Pompadour stud farm has kept several horse carriages, some of which are still on display. We interviewed Heritage curator Jean Louis Libourel, who is also a carriage and harness specialist, to learn how they work.
interview extract : "The national stud farms own 350 old horse carriages, France’s largest public collection of horse carriages. Each has a certain number of carriages, for example, here in Pompadour, there are about 30. Other national stud farms also have a fairly large number of them, Cluny and « Haras du Pin » for example.
There are two series of carriages in the National Stud Farms. Carriages which were purchased in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which were adapted to the farms’ needs at the time, used for horse training and for daily exercises.
One of the national stud farms’ most emblematic and typical carriages is the « skeleton break » : the one you can see right behind me. It’s quite a peculiar carriages : it has no boot, just a very solid and robust axle unit. It was used to train young horses to be harnessed.
They’d put 2 horses, an older one they’d call « school teacher » who was calm and used to being harnessed, with a young one beside it. They hoped that the wise old « school teacher horse » would calm and soothe the younger one, who might want to defend itself or be afraid of the carriage and the noise it made. It might even kick out. The carriage had to be very solid and not have a boot, just in case the young horse might knock it over. These types of carriages were only available from horse retailers and in stud farms.
« Sociable » is a type of barouche, used to carry passengers on a ride through town or in the countryside, when the weather was nice, of course.
They had a front seat for the coachman and a large back seat for important passengers. This seat could be covered by a foldable hood. You could also seat two small passengers up front, usually children, thanks to a a seat which could be installed once you had removed the mobile panel that was covering it up.
This particular type of carriage was built in Paris by the Binder company, Paris’s biggest and most famous coach work company, that relentlessly worked from 1804 to 1939, first on horse carriages, then on luxury car bodywork."...
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interview extract : "The national stud farms own 350 old horse carriages, France’s largest public collection of horse carriages. Each has a certain number of carriages, for example, here in Pompadour, there are about 30. Other national stud farms also have a fairly large number of them, Cluny and « Haras du Pin » for example.
There are two series of carriages in the National Stud Farms. Carriages which were purchased in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which were adapted to the farms’ needs at the time, used for horse training and for daily exercises.
One of the national stud farms’ most emblematic and typical carriages is the « skeleton break » : the one you can see right behind me. It’s quite a peculiar carriages : it has no boot, just a very solid and robust axle unit. It was used to train young horses to be harnessed.
They’d put 2 horses, an older one they’d call « school teacher » who was calm and used to being harnessed, with a young one beside it. They hoped that the wise old « school teacher horse » would calm and soothe the younger one, who might want to defend itself or be afraid of the carriage and the noise it made. It might even kick out. The carriage had to be very solid and not have a boot, just in case the young horse might knock it over. These types of carriages were only available from horse retailers and in stud farms.
« Sociable » is a type of barouche, used to carry passengers on a ride through town or in the countryside, when the weather was nice, of course.
They had a front seat for the coachman and a large back seat for important passengers. This seat could be covered by a foldable hood. You could also seat two small passengers up front, usually children, thanks to a a seat which could be installed once you had removed the mobile panel that was covering it up.
This particular type of carriage was built in Paris by the Binder company, Paris’s biggest and most famous coach work company, that relentlessly worked from 1804 to 1939, first on horse carriages, then on luxury car bodywork."...
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