THE BASKERVILLE'S OF WILTSHIRE c 1700ad

The Baskerville Landau Carriage

Detail of the Coat of Arms on the carriage door

The carriages were discovered in the late 19th century at Manton Grange in
Marlborough and were removed from there in 1898 by the coach and harness
manufacturers S. and A. Fuller who displayed them in their showroom.

They were built in 1698 for the High Sheriff of Wiltshire Thomas Baskerville
and Fullers hoped that a local museum would be able to accept the carriages
because of the Wiltshire connections. However none came forward and they
were transferred to Nottingham Castle Museum in 1920 and eventually to the
Industrial Museum, after restoration, in the mid 1980s.

S & A Fuller Ltd of Bath were building carriages from
1737, starting motor body construction in 1898.
They mounted a few bodies on Rolls-Royce chassis
between 1910 - 1924 when they ceased coachbuilding

Email from the Wiltshire County Archivist

Dear Mike, Thank you for the images of the Baskerville coaches, they look
very impressive. According to a list of Wiltshire sheriffs published in
Wilts. Arch. Mag. vol3 (1857)Thomas Baskerville of Richardson, Winterbourne
was sheriff in 1698; an annotation in our copy has Richard as sheriff in
1736.As you have seen the Baskerville tomb in Winterbourne Bassett there is
no need for me to send you the transcript in Phillip's Monumental
inscriptions

Steve Hobbs