The day’s best seller was final lot, this phaeton carriage, right. Although lacking a maker’s name it was a trim, dashing vehicle and sold at £1500.
A pony trap by S. Mountford of Shrewsbury and a governess cart by Aylesbury Bros, Elderberry, were snapped up at £740 and £400 respectively.
A crack of the whip...
Horseless carriages have long been the preserve of Thimbleby and Shoreland at Reading but the private collection of farm implements built up by Herefordshire corn merchant and farmer Hector Morris saw Leominster auctioneers Brightwells (15% buyer’s premium inc. vat) put a number of carriages on the market on July 20.
