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The expression «Down the road» began to be used about the middle of the 19th century when driving a coach and four was becoming increasingly popular among wealthy young men. Some of the older men thought that the style of turnout seen at meets of the Coaching Club was not in keeping with the true coaching tradition. They believed that driving a coach over any kinds of road for long distances with different team of horses like the old public stage coaches was the true coaching tradition , or , as they piut it, truly "down the road" . These were enthusiasts who strated «road coaching» during the 1860’s
Tom Ryder
« DOWN THE ROAD »
L’ expression “Down the road” fut employée à partir du milieu du XIXème siècle lorsque mener un coach attelé à quatre chevaux était devenu un sport très prisé des jeunes gens nantis de la bonne société.
Cependant, parmi les anciens pratiquants du coaching, certains estimaient que le style des équipages se présentant aux réunions du Coaching Club, ne respectaient pas l’esprit de la vraie tradition du coaching.
Ils estimaient que, mener un coach sur toutes sortes de routes, et sur de longues distances, en utilisant des attelages e chevaux différents, comme cela se faisait au temps des anciens Stages coachs publics, représentait la vraie tradition du coaching et comme ils le disaient, vraiment down the road.
Ce furent ces mêmes passionnés qui mirent sur pied le Road coaching, dans les années 1860.
Tom Ryder
NB : Déjà en 1837, l’expression "Down the road" était employée comme titre d’un ouvrage de Birch Reynardson. Arba
Newsletter May 2008
With this Newsletter we inform you periodically about issues related with our activities on carriages-restorations. If you can’t read this newsletter properly, you can also look here
“The White Coronation Calèche”
News on the White Coronation Calèche, restored by us, better known as “The Crème Calèche”!
Until the first of November 2008 the carriage is expositioned at the National Carriage Museum at Leek, this time with the gold plated sculptured group. Read more about this exceptional Royal White Calèche in the article published in the most prominent international magazine: Royals Extra March-April 2008. This article can be found on our website at ’Miscallaneous/Press Releases.
Adams Travelling Landau
Now to be seen on our website; photograph’s of the recently delivered Adams Travelling Landau. In the Belgium magazine Paard & Rijtuig April-May 2008 and the Danish magazine Koresporten April 2008 are two extensive articles on the history and restoration on this very special Royal carriage. Articles can be found also on our website at Miscallaneous/Press Releases’.
Childrens carriages
This Spring the conservation of a small collection of rare childrens carriages was begun. Of some of them our work can be monitored on our website.
Carriage Foundation
At the end of April the Engelse Carriage Foundation visited the Netherlands. Under the leadership of Caroline Dale the party visited the Royal Stables, the Carriages Museum at Leek, Palace Het Loo, and of course our workshop. Afterwards the enthusiastic party visited some more private carriage-collections. All together a very succesful trip! Amongst them were, Mr. Colin Henderson; an authority in England on the terrain of carriages. For 15 years he was the Head Coachman at the Royal Mews in London.
Carriagerestoration Stolk
As the last, full time family business restoring coaches and carriages in The Netherlands, we restore various different horse drawn vehicles each year.
We specialise in the complete restoration and or conservation of, mainly European coach type vehicles and have many years experience of restoring top makes of Road coaches, Drags, Omnibuses, Breaks, Gigs and Carts. At the exclusive end of the market we have restored Travelling Carriages, C-spring and elliptic Carriages, Dress Coaches and Chariots as well as Royal vehicles.
Contact
E-mail: plstolk@planet.nl
Website: www.carriageconservation.com
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