Well they boarded me in the village, and they had horses and buggies. I had a horse and buggy. In- in the wintertime of course, a horse and cutter. And ah, one of the older boys used to take it and put it in the stable and go and get it for me at night. Well then later I bought a car. After I'd been to teacher's college. And of course in the beginning I only received about six-hundred dollars a year so I couldn't afford anything but a horse.

And I- I've driven from ah- not on the- not on a stage but I've driven right from Picton. Right straight down the bay to Deseronto with an uncle he had- with a horse and buggy. Right- right straight through, the ice would be so good but that you could drive right straight through, right- never stop, right straight through from Picton, down to Deseronto.

And we had every Friday- like, we had a band concert and people drove around, came up on that, I remember it quite well, a lad from Napanee would come up in horse and buggy. And drive around with the horse and- in fact, two horses. Drive around and- we had a real winter.

Speaker: No, there wasn't much traffic. There wasn't any traffic hardly. There were no cars. Interviewer: There was horse and buggies then? Speaker: Horse and buggies, but then you were never afraid of a horse and buggy.

They used to take scrap and melt it and make steel bars for buggies or some automobile. When I came there was no electric light here of any kind. All there was was five lights on Front-Street.

Well you- we usually got to the market soon after eight o'clock. It would be about half-past seven, somewhere around there and that was in horse and buggy days, a lot of it was too. We finally got a car and we didn't have to leave quite so soon. And we crossed the ice too in the winter time with a cutter.

But it was a residential area, and that's where we lived and we used to go for a drive out to this Model-City when our children were small, we had our own horse and rig, horse and buggy that is, or horse and sleigh in the winter. We would drive out to see how they were progressing with this tunnel business you-know.

For instance my father had church services in several areas and he had to drive a horse and buggy of-course in those days. The roads anything like they are now, it was all up hill and down hill and pretty rough sometimes.

Perhaps I could collect the hard wood if I could find the man. On another occasion, I remember my father telling about having to go marry somebody north of Batise-Lake. He had to travel by horse and buggy, leave the horse at Batise-lake and take the boat across the lake, marry the couple and then come back.

He- he wo-- worked at it and then he started his own out around Madoc someplace and then went in to farming after that because just at that time they started making ah ah buggies and-that in Oshawa you-know with the General-Motors. The MacLaughlin buggies was in, see, and it- so that ruled out these little fellows. See the big factories got into it then see.

Well he was a carpenter as well as a farmer (clears throat), worked at the two. My grandfather was a carriage maker before him before us, so. Made buggies all that, factories. They used to that you-know years ago.

Yes. And there was a paint-shop. Now, of course, I'm sure if they made buggies or not, but they had a paint shop anyway (inc).

...as far as that’s concerned, and the manufacturing, actually, of buddies by the small manufacturer ceased, I would say, between nineteen-seven and nineteen-ten and our sales after nineteen-ten were mostly in resale business. We would buy our buggies from the Simpson Co, or the McLaughlin’s and resell them.

...different lengths and if you were making the (…) a tire for the front wheel of the buggy, you would use less footage than you would if you were making the rear wheel of that same rig.

...to fit the needs of certain people such as some people in the village would want a carriage, a type of carriage that the four could sit in very comfortably. Others would want a carriage or a buggy that would need only two...

But there was dozens and dozens of places where (…) or parts the blacksmith made, dozens of pieces went on buggies and the springs we had to buy.

hat is quite correct. The price of material today that would have to go into a well-made buggy would have to cost four to five times the prices of materials when I was working at this trade. I can easily understand that a well-made buggy should cost, right now, at least, one-hundred-fifty dollars or more.

That is quite correct. The price of material today that would have to go into a well-made buggy would have to cost four to five times the prices of materials when I was working at this trade. I can easily understand that a well-made buggy should cost, right now, at least, one-hundred-fifty dollars or more.

That was (…) that’s timber that you can bend by steaming and bending in forms and allowed to cool and after (…) after which it would stay in that form. The rims of the wheels were bent goods, bent wood. Ah, in the case of a buggy it was hickory, in the case of a wagon it was oak.

The (…) many, many, many smaller and thinner pieces around the buggy are made of hickory. In ah, (…) also in sleighs or cutters and in wagons.