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VINCENT'S SPECIALI TY—THE HORSEBOX.
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WM. VINCENT, LTD., of Reading, has made a speciality of horseboxes on standard chassis. It favours the frame which is sufficiently low in its side members to permit of loading the animals from the off side, and, where necessary, it employs a new side frame member in
order to give this advantage. • The bodies are well designed and extremely well built, the horses being placed with their beads to the rear, where there are a small manger and water container.
Each horsebox will carry two horses, a partition divided into two and hinged at each end separating one horse from the other. These half-partitions rim be removed from the pintlesof the hinges in order that the whole space may be thrown into one when a mare with her foal are being carried. (If the foal is separated from the, mare the latter always worries on the journey.) The whole panel forward of the rear wheel on the off side of the body hinges down to form a ramp, and this is balanced by a lever and spring beneath the body, so that, despite the weight necessary to give strength to the ramp, closing and unclosing, can readily be done by one man without any strain.
A groom's compartment is arranged at.the rear so that he is close to the horses' heads and can give them attention.
The interior is lined everywhere with a thick coco-nut matting, and there are padded timbers which hook on to the pintles of the hinges when the partitions have been removed, so that the animals shall not come to any harm from the metalwork.
The vehicle which we show in our illustration is mounted on the Guy dropped-frame pnetimatic-tyred chassis, which is ,gett^relly used for passenger work. From obr illustration it will be son that the ramp is placed on the off side of the vehicle. This is done for the special reason that the grooms in leading the horses in and out do so with their right hand, and by conforming to this practice their convenience is studied. As the horses are invariably loaned or unloaded in a field, there is no disadvantage in putting the entrance on this side.
The whole of the workmanship is of a high order, the finish being suitable for the class of customer to whom such vehicles appeal.