Carriages were more expensive than you think.

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Carriages were more expensive than you think. Written by Mary Ellen (9/18/2006 8:54 p.m.) in consequence of the missive, Carriage but no horses?, penned by Tracy W

Quoting from a paper I wrote a couple of years ago:

Even as late as 1920 painting a car was the critical path in constructing a vehicle. Time and motion studies may have sped the construction of the body up to 5 hours, but it took as long as 8 weeks to paint that same body. In the early years of car manufacture all vehicles were varnished, just as horse drawn carriages had been. And after the weeks of tedious work that it took to varnish the vehicle it had to be varnished again in just a couple of years.

The original source is Lamm, Michael, A Century of Automotive Style, p31-2.

This is of course, far outside our time, but I expect that paint technology would have been more advanced by 1920 than it was in 1800.

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Carriage but no horses? Tracy W (9/18/2006 5:17 p.m.)

You don't have to feed a carriage ;o) Maisy (9/18/2006 5:48 p.m.)
Illustrates Mrs. Dashwood's character a bit IMO... Robbin (9/18/2006 5:59 p.m.)
- Post carriage Maisy (9/18/2006 6:52 p.m.)
  - Thanks, great info. nfm :D Robbin (9/18/2006 11:07 p.m.)
  - Status Barbara (9/19/2006 12:47 a.m.)
  - There was a thriving JulieW (9/19/2006 6:02 a.m.)
    - Here's the pictures JulieW (9/19/2006 6:45 a.m.)
      - Thanks, great info and pictures--neat IMO! nfm :D Robbin (9/19/2006 7:30 a.m.)
      - Thanks for info & Tattersall pictures-- very neat ! Mandy N (9/19/2006 8:19 a.m.)
      - Perhaps the horse is also...   Reeba (9/19/2006 9:08 a.m.)
        
        Yes, he is   JulieW (9/19/2006 9:49 a.m.)
        
        Would love to, Thanks Julie :) nfm   Reeba (9/19/2006 10:09 a.m.)
    - Yes! Thanks - great stuff! -nfm Maisy (9/19/2006 6:49 a.m.)
- Here's an old post of mine JulieW (9/19/2006 7:26 a.m.)
  - Very helpful indeed! :D Robbin (9/19/2006 7:49 a.m.)
  - Wonderful - Ann2 (9/24/2006 12:58 p.m.)
- The cost of hiring a post chaise & post horses Maisy (9/19/2006 6:54 p.m.)
  - The cost of keeping a carraige JulieW (9/20/2006 11:15 a.m.)
Carriages were more expensive than you think. Mary Ellen (9/18/2006 8:54 p.m.)
More convenient to keep the carraige,I would think. JulieW (9/19/2006 5:35 a.m.)
- Thank you Julie W, and everyone else for the explanations (nfm) Tracy W (9/19/2006 5:03 p.m.)
cost and character Amanda McG (9/19/2006 10:24 a.m.)
- Oh, yes, Marianne's wild sensibility at... Reeba (9/19/2006 11:39 a.m.)
  - LOL ~ snort~ *nfm* Lisa Dalrymple (9/19/2006 12:19 p.m.)
  - Precisely what I had in mind! nfm Amanda McG (9/19/2006 3:20 p.m.)
  - ROTFLOL, Reeba!!! (nfm) Elizabeth Sycamore (9/19/2006 3:42 p.m.)
  - OMG! This is too funny! (LOL while clutching tummy) NFM Mona M (9/19/2006 4:08 p.m.)
  - IMO JA would love this Reeba! Wonderful! nfm Jan (9/19/2006 4:13 p.m.)
  - Fun! Well done, Reeba! -nfm :-) Maisy (9/19/2006 6:55 p.m.)
  - A poet in our midst . ;) (nfm) Mandy N (9/20/2006 7:57 a.m.)
  - :) nfm BarbaraB (9/21/2006 9:17 p.m.)

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