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Q. In carriage and coaching classes at shows, is it correct for the horses’ mane to be braided? A. At one time the Rule Book for the American Horse Shows Association was quite clear on this point, at least so far as the classes for Ladies’ Phaetons and Gigs were concerned. In both cases the […]
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Q. In an old magazine I saw a reference to driving three horses tandem. I have always understood a tandem to be two horses driven one behind the other, and three driven in this way to be a ‘randem.’ A. The word “tandem” is a Latin word meaning “at last” or “at length.” It is
Q. The clamps that hold the runner supports of a sleigh I am restoring have a strange thread that I am not able to match. I had to re-thread to 1/4 20 s.a.e Can you give me any idea of what the thread could have been? A. According to “Practical Blacksmithing,” edited by M.T. Richardson
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