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Q) The show season ends and we usually just throw everything off the truck after the last show and don’t look at it again until we get ready for the show season the next spring. We stick the buggy in a corner of the garage where it gets sort of grimy. I know we should […]
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Dogs and horses go together like peanut butter and jelly so it should come as no surprise that there is such a thing as Dog Carts and Dog Cart Phaetons in the carriage driving world. William Felton’s A Treatise on Carriages, written in 1796, mentions Shooting Phaetons, used by hunting parties, with room for dogs.
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The buggy is the most popular horse-drawn vehicle ever produced and by 1900 was being mass produced throughout the United States but where did it come from and, most importantly, what exactly is a buggy? The word ‘buggy’ first appeared in the late 1700’s in London (England) slang for a phaeton or chaise. William Fenton,
