Up to this time, William Smith & Sons had relied almost entirely on the increasing trade in sweepers, scrapers, spare parts and brushes. The range of machines available had been frequently updated and fifteen types of sweepers were now being manufactured, to suit the requirements of customers in many different countries. They were made to sweep to the right or the left, for one horse or two and they were adapted to be drawn by mules in Egypt or bullocks in India.
Gradually other vehicles were produced, which John referred to as 'novelties', but which proved to be the fore-runners of the many 'municipal vehicles', which the company were to produce over the next eighty year, or so. One of them,,[sic] designed by Charles James, was a horse-drawn 'Tumbler Cart', made in various sizes from two hundred to three hundred and fifty gallon capacity. It was designed to deal with the disposal of liquid and semi-solid waste material, which was a big problem to the sanitary departments of local authorities, before the days when all properties were conne[c]ted to the main sewers. This is one of those carts
Tidy Towns Project 2017.
Researched by Teddy McNamara & Charles Henderson
of Kinsale Tidy Towns
Photo of David Gardner along side Tumble Cart.
While on holidays in Kinsale, David who worked for the
Smith
family of Barnard Castle for over 40 years,
was delighted to come across a 'Tumble Cart'
drawn by one horse in its day
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