Copyright 1993 Smithsonian Institution. The scale drawings listed below are available for purchase from the Smithsonian Institution by mail only. The drawings are recommended for making scale models but may be insufficiently detailed for building full-scale carriages or wagons. There is no charge for postage or handling. All vehicles are American designs except where noted.
Drawings are too small to provide detail.
Please contact these addresses directly to request prices and ordering information. This information is provided for your convenience, is not intended to be comprehensive, and does not constitute an endorsement by the Smithsonian Institution. Several thousand fashion plates from the old trade journals Hub and Carriage Monthly are available and several hundred working drawings from Hub and Carriage Monthly and some from Le Guide du Carrossier and Coach Builders' and Wheelwrights' Art Journal. Maintains a file of drawings of varying quality for show wagons. The older plans are suitable for model making, some of the more recent plans are quite exquisite in detail.