Thomas Rickett's steam carriage mb-code AAHZ001262 Roulette salon

Roulette salon

Then the greatest of all record breakers

A group of street urchins laugh and point at her

Also showing a snuff shop

Thomas Rickett's steam carriage mb-code AAHZ001262 Roulette salonThomas 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