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2 unusual facts about Wagon-bed riding


Wagon-bed riding

There are now around twenty locations providing wagon-bed riding and training is given at the PTC in nearby Barneveld for carers.

Wagon-bed riding was started around 1990 in Bennekom (Netherlands), where the "Riding school without thresholds” is now established.


Among Giants

Around the time of the film's release, the Bedford van converted for use as a camper van - dubbed "the shagging wagon" in the film - was stolen and burnt out in Sheffield.

Arcadia, Tennessee

This portion of the road was also part of Daniel Boone's Wilderness Road which allowed those following the Great Wagon Road to continue past present-day Bristol, through the Reedy Creek Settlement, through Moccasin Gap, and over to Cumberland Gap to settle in Kentucky.

Bailey Yard

Buffalo Bill located Scouts Rest Ranch at North Platte because it allowed him to move his Wild West Show by train or by wagon across the United States relatively quickly.

Battle of Nooitgedacht

On 2 December, De la Rey's commando ambushed an ox-wagon convoy east of Rustenburg, killing and wounding 64 British soldiers and capturing 54 men and 118 wagons.

Benjamin Franklin Davis

As sunlight broke, the wagon drivers were startled to discover drawn pistols from their blue-clad escort, and as a result Davis's command not only escaped to Union lines at Greencastle, Pennsylvania, by morning September 15, but also captured Longstreet's forty-wagon reserve ordnance train with no losses.

Benson, Arizona

Benson then served as a rail junction point to obtain ore and refined metal by wagon, in turn shipping rail freight back to the mines at Tombstone, Fairbank, Contention and Bisbee.

Billinton

R. J. Billinton (1844–1904), the Locomotive, Carriage, Wagon and Marine Superintendent of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway from 1890 to 1904

Bobby Cohen

After leaving Red Wagon, Cohen went on to produce such films as Definitely Maybe for Working Title/Universal Pictures and Revolutionary Road for Dreamworks.

Break-of-gauge

More rarely, standard gauge vehicles are carried over narrow gauge tracks using adaptor vehicles; examples include the Rollbocke transporter wagon arrangements in Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic and the milk transporter wagons of the Leek and Manifold Valley Light Railway in England.

Casey Tibbs

Ian Tyson wrote a song about Tibbs for the album I Outgrew the Wagon

Chevrolet Nomad

The Nomad is best remembered in its two-door 1955–57 form, and was considered a halo model during its three-year production as a two-door station wagon.

Clara Blinn

Clara Blinn (1847–1868) was a white settler who, with her two-year-old son Willie, was captured by Indians in October 1868 in Colorado Territory during an attack on the wagon train in which she and her family were traveling.

Coos Bay Wagon Road Lands

In 2011, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar endorsed a demonstration timber sale pilot project on federal forest lands along Coos Bay Wagon Road in coordination with two professors.

Cowlairs railway works

Cowlairs Locomotive, Carriage and Wagon Works , at Cowlairs in Springburn, an area in the north-east of Glasgow, Scotland, was built in 1841 for the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway and was taken over by the North British Railway (NBR) in 1865.

Donkey walk

The procession was led by a wagon carrying "a beautiful tree whose branches are hung with apples and various other treats" and six boys singing Hosanna.

Emigrant Trail

The Emigrant Trails were the northern networks of overland wagon trails throughout the American West, used by migrants from the eastern United States to settle lands west of the Interior Plains during the overland migrations of the mid-19th century.

Evacuation of East Prussia

Also horses and caretakers from the Trakehner stud farms were evacuated with the wagon trains.

Eyes of an Angel

In the garage, the man in the station wagon opens the back to reveal a Doberman Pinscher, muzzled, in a small metal cage.

Ford Country Squire

A heavily modified Country Squire Wagon was used by the Griswolds in National Lampoon's Vacation.

Francesco Fausto Nitti

After the defeat of his side, he came back to France where was relegated in a concentration camp and later sent on the Nazi Ghost Train in order to be deported in Germany; Nitti (as well as one hundred of the seven hundred prisoners) fled when the train was near to the board, after removing some plank from the floor of his wagon.

Henry Perky

He returned to Denver and began distributing the biscuits from a horse-drawn wagon in an attempt to popularize the idea.

Henry Wellcome

Henry Solomon Wellcome was born in a frontier log cabin in Almond, Wisconsin to Rev. S. C. Wellcome, an itinerant missionary who travelled and preached in a covered wagon, and Mary Curtis Wellcome.

John Netherland

In October 1852, Netherland was badly injured in a wagon accident while travelling to Calhoun, Tennessee, with Gustavus Henry and Charles McClung McGhee to stump for Scott.

John Otto Siegel

--This may have been when Seigel started driving a wagon, later working for Wells Fargo as a driver according to his World War I draft card.--> In 1912, Seigel now is a "sailor" at the same address.

His draft card also shows that he is a wagon driver "teamster" working for Wells Fargo Company Express.

John W. Meldrum

John W. Meldrum did not travel to Yellowstone until July 1894 making his way via train, coach, wagon and horseback from Laramie via Salt Lake City, Henry's Lake and the Madison River.

Jordan Township, Warren County, Indiana

The grain grown was either fed to livestock or hauled by wagon to elevators at Ambia, West Lebanon, or Rossville, Illinois.

Königsberger Paukenhund

The tradition dates from the 1866 Battle of Königgrätz, where troops of the Prussian 43rd Infantry Regiment ("Duke Karl of Mecklenburg-Strelitz") overran the drum wagon of the Austrian 77th Infantry Regiment ("Karl Salvator of Tuscany"), whose dog, a Saint Bernard named "Sultan", had been shot.

Laager

During the 119 BC Battle of Mobei of the Han–Xiongnu War, the famous Han general Wei Qing used armored wagons known as "Wu Gang Wagon" (武剛車) in ring formations to neutralise the Xiongnu's cavalry charges, before launching a counteroffensive which overran the nomads.

Mr. Tucket

It is about 14 year old Francis Tucket who strays from his family's wagon on the Oregon Trail and is captured by the Pawnee.

Munch Museum

The robbers forced the museum guards to lie down on the floor while they snapped the cable securing the paintings to the wall and escaped in a black Audi A6 station wagon, which police later found abandoned.

Noise and Resistance

The documentary was shot on various locations, including Barcelona-district Gràcia; the wagon fort Schwarzer Kanal in Berlin; as well as various other locations in Britain, Russia and Sweden.

Nuclear flask

The crashworthiness of the flask was demonstrated publicly when a British Rail Class 46 locomotive was forcibly driven into a derailed flask (containing water and steel rods in place of radioactive material) at 100 miles per hour, the flask sustaining minimal superficial damage without compromising its integrity, while both the flatbed wagon carrying it and the locomotive were more-or-less destroyed.

Opel Performance Center

since 2009 Opel Insignia OPC - a version of the Opel Insignia five-door liftback, four-door saloon and five-door station wagon (Sports Tourer) which has a 2.8-liter V6 turbo engine with 239 kW (325 hp) and standard all-wheel drive.

Redstone Creek

The river crossing and flats at Redstone Creek, the earliest point and shortest distance the choices a wagon road descent could follow (later in the war, fortified as Fort Burd, now Brownsville) was one of several possible destinations.

René Lavand

In between international tours, he resides in Tandil, Argentina and has adapted a train wagon which he turned into a magic saloon where he teaches illusion.

River Medway

The Hartlake disaster of 1853 saw the deaths of 30 hop-pickers when a wagon carrying them crashed through the side of a rotten wooden bridge in Golden Green near Hadlow, throwing its passengers into the flood swollen river.

SEAT 124

The car's initial production in Zona Franca was transferred in 1976 to the Landaben - newly acquired from Authi - plant in Pamplona, resulting in the elimination of the '124 Familiar' station wagon 5-door versions.

Shooting-brake

In 1999, Popular Mechanics presented a 2001 Jaguar five-door wagon variant of its S-Type, saying the term shooting-brake was interchangeable with station wagon.

Škoda 1202

The Škoda 1202 was a family car produced as a station wagon, light panel van and pick-up (Utility) by Czechoslovakian automaker AZNP at their subsidiary plant in Vrchlabí.

St. Rollox railway works

Rollox Locomotive Works and St Rollox Carriage and Wagon Works were built in 1856 in Springburn, an area in the north-east of Glasgow, Scotland, for the Caledonian Railway, moving away from their works at Greenock.

Suzuki Wagon R

The Maruti Wagon R is an Indian version of the international Suzuki Wagon R, manufactured and sold by Suzuki's Indian subsidiary Maruti Suzuki.

The Covered Wagon

The House That Shadows Built (1931) promotional film released by Paramount with excerpt of The Covered Wagon

The War Wagon

The gold shipment is being transported in a "war wagon," a heavily armored stagecoach armed with a deadly Gatling gun in a top-mounted steerable turret.

Top 10: The Forty-Niners

Heading outside after his awkward encounter, Steven follows a police wagon to Scowling Joe's, where the Cosa Nosferatu (vampire mafia) have murdered the barkeep and local prostitute.

Wagon Mound

Wagon Mound National Historic Landmark, a butte and camp near town of Wagon Mound, New Mexico

Wagon Wheel, Rancho Santa Margarita, California

Wagon Wheel is a residential master planned community located adjacent to the city of Rancho Santa Margarita in Orange County, California.

Wagon Wheels

Interest in Wagon Wheels was at an all time peak when the British comedians French and Saunders made a sketch with Jennifer Saunders dressed as a schoolgirl stuffing a Wagon Wheel into her mouth.

Wagons East!

This leads to comedic exploits when the drunken wagon master leads them into Sioux territory and they are pursued by the cavalry.


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