Fotografía antigua Álbum "Venture" London Brighton 1911. Álbum Vanderbilt
Este álbum es una pequeña rarezas que, a veces, se encuentran en el comercio cuando no se buscan.
El álbum fue encargado por Alfred Vanderbilt miembro de una de las familias mas acaudaladas de su tiempo. Está hecho, posiblemente, para regalar a personas próximas a su ambito personal o de negocios.
El álbum recoge imagenes de una competición de coches de caballos entre las ciudades de London y Brighton en 1911.
Vanderbilt trajo de Estados Unidos el coche de caballos Venture asi como los caballos. El fin era hacer el recorrido entre las dos ciudades en el menor tiempo posible compitiendo, en cierto modo con el ferrocarril.
En el álbum se recogen fotos de la llegada de los caballos y el coche. El inicio de la competición en Londres. El recorrido con las paradas pertinentes para los cambios de tiro.
Por último la llegada a Brighton.
- Es una pieza encantadora recuerdo de una época.
Vanderbilt falleció en el hundimiento del Lusitania.
- El coche de caballos Venture se conserva en la mansión conocida como The Breakers.
.London to Brighton Coach:Peter Reed
In 1907 an American multi-millionaire, Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt 1, brought over from his Oakland Farm in the United States 26 coaching horses for the first International Horse Show. His horses were considered 'coarse' by his English counterparts and not of the standard they were used to, never the less he won many of his events.
He started to entertain his friends by driving
them, in his horse drawn coaches, from London to Brighton using a relay
of horses. He enjoyed this coach driving so much that from 1908 he
started a regular, but seasonal, London to Brighton service using a
coach named "Venture". The coach ran from London to Brighton one day and
returned the next which may explain why the Ashtead photograph (above)
seems to have passed the Brewery Inn on the way towards London rather
than Brighton, similarly passing Kings Head in Epsom. Vanderbilt is
reported to have often driven the coach himself "dressed as for Ascot races, complete with grey top hat".
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The New York Times.- Alfred G. Vanderbilt, who won so many honors at the first International Horse Show in England last year, has arranged to carry on a coaching enterprise between London and Brighton next Spring, running the Venture from May 1 until June 15 as a public coach.
The New York Times.- Alfred G. Vanderbilt, who won so many honors at the first International Horse Show in England last year, has arranged to carry on a coaching enterprise between London and Brighton next Spring, running the Venture from May 1 until June 15 as a public coach.
- Este millonario murió heroicamente en el hundimiento del Lusitania: Wikipedia:.. El 7 de mayo de 1915, el RMS Lusitania fue torpedeado a las 14:00 horas por el submarino alemán U-20 frente al viejo faro de Old Kinsale frente a las costas irlandesas. En sólo unos minutos se había escorado 25°, haciendo que fuese muy difícil arriar los botes salvavidas. En tan sólo 18 minutos, el buque se había hundido. El naufragio causó la muerte de más de 1.198 pasajeros incluidos 100 niños. Sobrevivieron 761 personas. La muerte de 234 ciudadanos estadounidenses fue probablemente una de las causas por la que EE.UU. entró en la Primera Guerra Mundial dos años más tarde............
- The New York Times, Tuesday, 11 May 1915, page 2: Article contained a tribute to Alfred Vanderbilt purported to be by Mrs. Ethel Lines. She later claimed it to be a reporter’s invention, as Ethel left the Lusitania on a starboard boat whereas Vanderbilt was on the port side.People will not talk of Mr. Vanderbilt in future as a millionaire sportsman and a man of pleasure. He will be remembered as the children’s hero and men and women will salute his name. “When death was nearing him he showed gallantry which no words of mine can describe. He stood outside the palm saloon on the starboard side of the Lusitania with Ronald Denyer by his side. He looked around on the scene of horror and despair with pitying eyes.“ ‘Find all the kiddies you can, boy,’ he said to his valet. The man rushed off collecting children and as he brought them to Mr. Vanderbilt the millionaire dashed to the boats with two little ones in his arms at a time.“When he could find no more children he went to the assistance of the women and placed as many as he could safely in the boats. In all his work he was gallantly assisted by Denyer, and the two continued their efforts until the very end.