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Description: | The vehicles are connected with the china clay industry. There are two locomotives, one built by Pecketts of Bristol in 1899 to be used at Lee Moor Pit in Devon, where it worked for 48 years. The Judy was built in 1937 by W J Bagnall of Stafford for work at Par Harbour.
The clay wagon is one of only two known survivors of the typical heavy horse drawn wagon used by the clay industry in the 19th century. These wagons could hold up to three tons of clay and were hayled by a team of three horses.
The Peerless Lorry, built in America in 1916, came to Europe to be used during the First World War. It was then sold as 'War surplus' and bought by a china clay company, Parkin and Peters and used at their Blackpool pit. It was one of the earliest petrol engine vehicles used in the clay industry. After about ten years use, it was discarded and buried under a sand tip, until it was rescued in 1958. | Subjects: | Transport | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | Carthew
St Austell,
PL26 8XG | FAX: | 01726 850 362 | Telephone: | 01726 850 362 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:2767 | Go to resource |
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