“GOING-TO-COVER” CART
Black and white with red gear. Trimmed in eggshell corduroy.
This dog cart was one of the types approved for tandem driving by the Tandem Club of New York. In design it was copied from a dog cart shown in the print by C. C. Henderson entitled Going-to-Cover, which has been described by authorities as a truly ideal sporting picture of the tandem team. Originally the dogs would have been taken to cover in the capacious boot which was ventilated on either side with louvered spaces.
Tandem driving was practiced by the ladies as well as by gentlemen, and in fact Lady Georgiana Curzon wrote the tandem chapter in Driving, the volume on that sport written for the Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes, published in 1889.
This cart was built by Brewster and Company of New York.
Gift of Mrs. Gambrill in memory of her husband, Mr. Richard V. N. Gambrill
