Written by admin on 28 January, 2010 – 6:48 am -
Wheels in Edwardian times were still mostly horse-drawn. Imagine, you hear the sound of a fire engine's bells, followed immediately by the clatter of 8, 16 who knows how many hooves. Motorised public transport wasn't commonplace until the 1914-18 period. There were some ambulances, as supplied by the Wolseley Car Company and these appeared in British cities between 1906-07. There are examples of these which do appear on postcards.
Of course there were some cars. As Prince of Wales, Edward VII received his first Daimler in 1900 and there are scarce postcards featuring him and it. Of course his cousin Kaiser Wilhelm would also have been so endowed, so there must be postcards out there featuring him and his cars.
By 1910 there were a few small motorised buses and some of these found their way onto postcards. However, Britian was just waking up to the fact of electrified trams at this time too, so there are examples of these on postcards. Of course, horse-drawn transport and almost all trams have long since disappeared, so postcards featuring them are popular ones for the modern collector.
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