page_title: Yaldhurst Museum
section_title: Horse-drawn vehicles
hierarchical_section_title: Yaldhurst Museum / Horse-drawn vehicles
caption_attribution_description: c1886 Hearse - Used in Invercargil by McDonald and Western. Glass Sides were an improvement on previous, sombre box-like hearses. It is believed to have carried the body of the Right Honorable Richard Seddon. This Hearse was replaced by a motorised hearse in 1922.
context_page_description: The Yaldhurst Museum is located in the suburb of Yaldhurst, Christchurch, New Zealand, close to Christchurch International Airport, Riccarton Race Course and Ruapuna Speedway. The museum has a large collection of road transport vehicles, and it opened to the public in 1968.
context_section_description: The horse-drawn vehicle collection came from throughout the South Island and comprises 119 vehicles; the oldest is an American Buggy of 1810. Examples of gigs, swamp drays, drags, broughams, phaetons, bakers' carts, surreys, expresses, rigs, sociables, governess carts, night carts and milk carts are exhibited. One of the rarest vehicles on display is a c1886 hearse. It was used in Invercargill by funeral directors Macdonald and Weston and is said to have carried the body of New Zealand prime minister Richard Seddon at his death in 1906. The hearse is one of only three known to have survived in New Zealand. The other hearses are held in the Naseby Early Settlers' Museum. Naseby, Otago and the Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT), Western Springs, Auckland.
caption: Horse-drawn carriage at the museum.
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