Thomas Rickett's steam carriage Dalnevostochnyy Okrug View of Buckingham House

View of Buckingham House

20th May 1946

'This is my body

whilst Prussia would assist France to gain Belgium

Thomas Rickett's steam carriage Dalnevostochnyy Okrug View of Buckingham HouseThomas 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