The Queen's new carriage, covered in gold and set with diamonds, vanishes. It is whisked into other realms, by supernatural energy. The Little penguins, and their mythological friends face perils dusted with drama and sprinkled with magic, to get the coach safely home to London. The Magic Carriage ventures to times, places and people, with very un-boring history. The Coachmaker, one of the last of his kind in the world, is a treasure hunter of unusual objects. After recycling a hundred bits and pieces collected from famous inventions, buildings, ships, aircraft and the like, he decorated the interior of the Queen's new coach with them. Here a bit of Spitfire, there a piece of Shakespeare's mulberry tree. Though his collection seems far-fetched, this part of the story is true. These artefacts possess supernatural energy, which draws the magic carriage and its unlikely travelling companions into realms not always of the here and now. Happenstance unites them in a mission to guard the Magic Carriage and get it safely home to London. Five little Australian penguins, The Lion and the Unicorn, The Harp of Ireland, The Goddess Britannia, St. George and his Dragon, each play their part to protect crown property, as they face perils beyond their wildest dreams. Imagine the Queen's response when her beautiful new coach arrives unexpectedly in London packed with little penguins. Let the Magic Carriage convey you and your loved ones, for generations to come, into a timeless fairy penguin tale, where blended facts and fiction brings to life some truly wonderful people, places and mythology from around the globe.

FEATURES Cheyenne's Frontier Days Old West Museum 3 A Royal Coachman, Part I 8 How to Train Carriage Horses 12 Hints about Dress and Turnout 14 Duncan Macpherson's Model Vehicles 16 The Saga of 605 25 Coachmaking in Philadelphia, Part IV 30 DEPARTMENTS The View from the Box 2 The Road Behind: Education of the Driving Horse 20 Memories Mostly Horsy 22 Letters to the Editor 29 Book Reviews 33 The Carriage Trade 35

Willie the Fox began writing a diary and he was sure his stories would be more interesting than those of Billy Bear.

Title page The View From the Box They're Off-Chuckwagons Hit the Track I The Invention of Carriage Springs .. Bertram W. Mills Haflingers-The "Banty Belgians" All's Well That Doesn't End in a Well Three Generations of Coachbuilders The Netherlands Equestrian Center The Castle Museum, York, England · · · · · · · · · The North American Carriage Driving Championships The Sporting Break Postillion-1987 · · · · · · .. The "Sir Walter Scott" Charity Coach Run 1987 . Driving as a Subject for Artists Memories-Mostly Horsy Questions & Answers On Dishing and Staggering .. Hints for Restorers The Carriage Trade . Book Review Advertising

Movie studios are the wondrous, almost magical locales where not just films, but legends, are created. Unfortunately, these celebrity playgrounds are, and always have been, largely hidden from public view. Although some movie studios offer tours, few guests from outside the Hollywood community have ever been witness to the artistry, politics, and scandals that routinely go on behind the soundstage walls and away from the carefully orchestrated scenes visible to them from their tram carts. In this book, studio staff historian and Hollywood insider Steven Bingen throws open Hollywood’s iron gates and takes you inside the greatest and yet most mysterious movie studio of them all: Warner Bros. Long home to the world’s biggest stars and most memorable films and television shows, the Warner Bros. Studio lot functions as a small city and is even more fascinating, glamorous, and outrageous than any of the stars or movies that it has been routinely minting for more than ninety years. Accompanied by stunning behind-the-scenes photos and maps, and including a revealing backstory, this book is your ticket to a previously veiled Hollywood paradise.

Jon Katz reveals the truth behind the controversy between the Central Park carriage trade and the politicians and organizations who call themselves supporters of animal rights. It documents a shameful failure of politics and media as it explores the reality of the lives of the carriage horses and the truth about working animals.The book also takes a deeper look at the future of animals in our world. The modern-day animal rights movements seems to be removing animals from our lives more than protecting them, and the horses seem to have called on us to consider their fate in a wiser and more thoughtful way.A portion of all proceeds will go to the fund to save the horses.

Heritage Park · · · · · · · · Controlling Runaway Horse, Part 111 ... The Singer Sociable · · · · · In Colombia Carriages Are Back.. . . The Polish National Pair Driving Champ1onsh1p, 1986. Step Treads for Carriages .... Letters to the Editor Memories, Mostly Harsy . Museo de Carruajes . The Barouche or Caleche. Maybe I Have 150 Vehicles .. Questions & Answers .. Book Reviews. The Carriage Trade ..

A COACHING HOLIDAY IN IRELAND, John M. Seabrook . A HISTORY OF CARRIAGES, P aul H. Downing COACHING IN AMERICA, Elizabeth Toomey Seabrook JOHN AND MABLE RINGLING, Museum of Art WAGON WHEELS STILL IN DEMAND, Louise Hickman Lione A COACH HOUSE CELEBRATION, Clement Hoopes DRESSAGE TESTS FOR HARNESS HORSES, Daphne Machin-Goodall