Re-inventing the Wheel
Just outside a miniature railway system in a suburban Melbourne park is a pair of bench seats built onto full-size pairs of wheels with axles. Measurement shows that they were for the oversize gauge of 5'3'', chosen for the state of Victoria by an Irish railway engineer in the 19th century.
The wheels and axle are painted uniformly black of course, but the prevailing light makes the upper parts seem almost white, and I liked the lively contrast this combination gives to an otherwise subdued near monochrome brown…
(Since I posted this, I have discovered via Flickr that there is at least one other seat of this kind, that being in Scotland.)
Re-inventing the Wheel
Just outside a miniature railway system in a suburban Melbourne park is a pair of bench seats built onto full-size pairs of wheels with axles. Measurement shows that they were for the oversize gauge of 5'3'', chosen for the state of Victoria by an Irish railway engineer in the 19th century.
The wheels and axle are painted uniformly black of course, but the prevailing light makes the upper parts seem almost white, and I liked the lively contrast this combination gives to an otherwise subdued near monochrome brown…
(Since I posted this, I have discovered via Flickr that there is at least one other seat of this kind, that being in Scotland.)