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a “pickaxe” turnout

If you’re a U.S.-based Carriage Journal subscriber / Carriage Association member, you may have already read the “Nuts and Bolts” column in the latest issue. (If you’re a subscriber / member living outside the U.S., your magazine is on its way to you now!) In that column, CAA member Nancy Lindley-Gauthier discusses the “pickaxe” turnout: […]

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a grand old hotel

Quite a number of carriage drivers have at least heard of Maine’s Mount Desert Island, or they may have even driven there themselves. It is, after all, the location of Acadia National Park, which boasts miles and miles of roads designed and built, by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., specifically for horse-drawn carriages. Here is a

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a lovely restoration

One of the CAA’s members in Belgium wrote to tell us about a carriage restoration that his company finished recently. He said, “After eighteen months of continuous hard work we can finally add another beautiful vehicle to our long list of restorations: a Traveling Chariot by Laurie & Marner. “This carriage was in rather sound condition

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