Malopolska Carriage

Small Lesser Poland carriage for 6 people (seat dos-à-dos) for a paired horse team, comes from one of the manors belonging to the Gumniska estate located near Tarnów and belonging to the Sanguszko princes. It was produced at the beginning of the 20th century in Łęg near Tarnów. The vehicle comes from a collection of nearly 100 horse-drawn vehicles, gathered by the museum in Łańcut and constantly enriched. It includes vehicles of different kind, from presentable to rustic, from 18th to 20th century. They come primarily from museum purchases; only a few were donated. Most of them have undergone general conservation or restoration, already when belonging to the museum’s collection. The Lesser Poland carriage was repaired by the Bogajewicz family carriage company in Pniewy. It was purchased for the museum in 1995. Travel carriage equipped with springs, in natural wood colour with two double seats one behind the other. Side walls and back wall in upper part two-coloured with stripes made of two types of wood. Rear, main seat for two persons in the seating area limited by a bent, low wall rounded at the corners, equipped with carriage backrest rounded at the ends and bar handrails. At the front, a box seat with a wide mattress (for 4 people to sit dos-à-dos) and side bar handrails with the crank of a hand crank-block brake. The front mudguard is low, the side ones are bent, interrupted in the middle, with an iron step hanging from an extension. Upholstery in brown leather, at the main seat with studs on the edge of the bentwood wall. Aldona Cholewianka-Kruszyńska