Incredible collection of historic horse-drawn vehicles

The Canberra Times

The stunning collection goes up for sale at Sutton on Saturday

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00:42 - So this carriage here originally come from the US.

00:57 My father collected it.

00:59 It's an opera coach.

01:00 So the people that owned this coach

01:03 was riding the back to the opera.

01:05 They would have a driver

01:06 and it's just a magnificent vehicle.

01:09 It's originated from America

01:12 and it's a fringe top Surrey.

01:15 And it's obviously you and your family.

01:17 It's pretty, I mean, it's voluptuous, the seating

01:20 and the fringe will keep the sun off you.

01:23 But you could take your family.

01:27 If you were pretty wealthy,

01:28 you'd probably own one of these.

01:29 And you could take your family to church in this.

01:31 You'd be pretty flash too.

01:33 Buggy is for a lady or a child

01:37 that has a Shetland pony.

01:39 So you could put your Shetland in here

01:42 and the young person or the lady could drive that to town.

01:46 And when they turned up, people would go,

01:48 "Wow, that's beautiful."

01:50 And it's just fantastic.

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02:05 So this is the Arnott's lorry.

02:08 It's a fantastic vehicle.

02:10 It's a very old restored lorry.

02:12 And it was restored by the Williams family of Riddles Creek.

02:16 When the Riddles family finished showing their vehicles,

02:20 they knew dad, they rang dad up and said,

02:23 "You know, do you want these vehicles, Peter?"

02:26 And of course my dad had a passion for this.

02:28 And we showed beside this in the ring.

02:31 So he bought them off the family

02:33 and has been in storage ever since.

02:34 We've used it in the show ring

02:36 and it's just iconic Australia.

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