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Title: Group transport in 1909
Post by: suttontrust on Saturday 26 July 14 09:52 BST (UK)

This is an odd question with no definite answer, but I'd like some opinions, please.
In 1909 residents of the Hull Charterhouse went on a trip to Burton Constable.  What transport would they have used?  I know there were buses and even charabancs in 1909, but there was still horse-drawn transport as well.  It's 8.7 miles between the two places, and there would have been upwards of 50 people on the trip.
Any thoughts?

Title: Re: Group transport in 1909
Post by: iluleah on Saturday 26 July 14 09:59 BST (UK)

They possibly walked!

Title: Re: Group transport in 1909
Post by: stanmapstone on Saturday 26 July 14 10:19 BST (UK)

Some interesting photographs of charabanc outings at http://www.theislandwiki.org/index.php/Charabancs,_coaches_and_carriages

Stan

Title: Re: Group transport in 1909
Post by: suttontrust on Saturday 26 July 14 12:10 BST (UK)

Thanks Stan, very interesting.  1909 seems to have been a transition period when horse-drawn and mechanical means of transport were equally popular.

Title: Re: Group transport in 1909
Post by: Colin Cruddace on Sunday 27 July 14 23:44 BST (UK)

Hull Charterhouse sounds like a college, so perhaps it was a Rag Day Challenge using prams, bath chairs, hospital stretchers and other pushable contraptions.  ??? ???

Title: Re: Group transport in 1909
Post by: Jeuel on Monday 28 July 14 09:16 BST (UK)

1909 was indeed an age of transition.  My grandfather joined the Royal Engineers in 1914 as a blacksmith, to care for the horses.  By the time he left in 1919 he was a lorry driver.