Interesting tow vehicle..

Classic - reckon they should have used a tirfor!!!

Shame they never succeeded in the tow effort.

Or a yakfor!

Thats what we'll all be using soon with the price of petrol being what it is :(

Contemporary reports of London before the invention of the motor car described traffic jams of dog-carts (two-wheeled carts pulled by horses) and the streets soaked with horse shit and piss so don't bet on it!

On or around Fri, 21 Apr 2006 00:07:03 +0100, Ian Rawlings enlightened us thusly:

nah, any time a horse shat on the street people used to rush out and collect it to put on the garden.

Mind, I used to think it dead good that they still used the horse-drawn drays for local beer deliveries. most amusing to watch the expressions of people in cars behind it, too...

How old are you exactly Austin? ;-)

On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 08:15:38 +0100, Austin Shackles scribbled the following nonsense:

best thing is to chuck it in the compost bin to rot for 6 months, as fresh manure can burn plants..... or so titchmarsh says.....

Depends how much there is... London prior to and during the "big stink" even tried mechanical sweepers to clear it all up, and employed teams of people to clear up after the horses but despite that the streets were still paved with shit in traffic hotspots. Human shit was the worst problem in most areas but in the traffic spots the horse shit built up too fast.

Nothing much has changed in london IMHO ;-)

Every now and then i come across a customised scania truck, On the back are the words"480 horses,1 cat,no bull". Just wandering what could be written on this landy.

On or around Fri, 21 Apr 2006 09:23:24 +0100, Ian Rawlings enlightened us thusly:

not that old. anectdotal evidence from antecedent.