2001/13/9

Sussex wagon, Kent wagon,

W. E. D. Ryan (Maker)

This is a model wagon made by the donor sometime between the early 1970s and 1980s. It is one of a collection of model wagons and carts he made from the drawings of David Wray, John Thompson and James Arnold. This model is of a Sussex Wagon (based on a drawing by James Arnold).

1 model wagon: wood

MERL 'Handwritten accession' form (Museum of English Rural Life) – 'Wagons, Model // Description // 13 model wagons made by depositor between early 1970s and c.1980 from drawings of David Wray, John Thompson and James Arnold. They are: // 1) Hampshire Wagon (Wray) // 2) Wiltshire Wagon (Wray) // 3) Derbyshire Cart (Wray) // 4) Oxfordshire Wagon (Thompson) // 5) Suffolk Long Cart (Wray) // 6) Lincolnshire Wagon (Wray) // 7) Essex Wagon (Wray) // 8) Devon Wagon (Wray) // 9) Sussex Wagon (Science Museum Drawing) // 10) Welsh Sledge Cart (Arnold) // 11) ['Monmouthshire Cart' scored through] (Wray) [insert] Dorset Tipping Cart [end insert] // 12) Devon kerry Cart (Arnold) // 13) Derbyshire Wagon (Wray) // Dimensions // Various sizes // Associated information // Mr. Ryan is an architect by profession. The names inscribed on the nameboards of some of the wagons are those of his children. // Also deposited with the wagons were a number of photographs taken of each of them from various angles. [insert] (see P DX1052) [end insert]', MERL miscellaneous note, Adam Koszary, 8 December 2014 - 'Previously identified as Sussex wagon but is actually a Kent wagon, as shown in Arnold, J., 'The Farm Waggons of England and Wales', John Baker: 1978, Plate I.'

Walton-le-Dale

1970 - 1980

Model, Wagon