Thomas Rickett's steam carriage mb-code AAHZ001262 Plate 12 from the book

Plate 12 from the book A philosophical account of the works of nature

Also showing a snuff shop

Flying with them is a violin

Harald Fairhair

Then the greatest of all record breakers

Thomas Rickett's steam carriage mb-code AAHZ001262 Plate 12 from the bookThomas Rickett's steam carriage, 1860 (1956). Rickett, a Birmingham maker of agricultural implements, built a steam powered plough in 1858. This prompted the Marquess of Stafford to ask him to build a steam carriage for him. A second example was ordered by James Sinclair, Earl of Caithness (one of the passengers in the photograph) in 1860. Sinclair drove the carriage 146 miles from Inverness to Barrogill Castle, north of Wick. Rickett advertised his