2-914-045 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Patent Military Foraging-Cart, 1854. '...the Patent Spring-shaft Safety Car, which from its lightness, commodiousness...strength, and...cheapness, bids fair to supersede the whole tribe of dogcarts, chaise-carts, errand-carts, &c. Nor is it likely to be the substitute of the two-wheeled vehicle only. It will prove a valuable substitute to families in the country whose incomes or desires are limited to the one-horsed chaise or the four-wheeled phaeton...While lighter of draught, and more commodious than any four-wheeled chaise, it is even nearer to the ground than the lowest of these; a circumstance which will doubtless commend its use to ladies, who can enter it without even the ordinary auxiliary of a step...one of these useful carriages...was...at the desire of his Grace the Minister of War, inspected by a committee of officers at Woolwich, and...some specimens are in course of construction...'. From "Illustrated London News", 1854.