Paramount 1/30 The Royal Barouche With Coachman & Grays, V2

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Paramount 1/30 The Royal Barouche With Coachman & Grays, V2 plastic model kit

1/30 V2 Paramount The Royal Barouche With Coachman & Grays

Plastic Model Kit,   Box Condition: Good+

Unusual early 1960s big-scale kit by Paramount (Great Britain). Very well detailed for that time with over 80 parts featuring two Windsor Grey horses with very complete flexible harnesses, Coachman figure, optional up or down shade/top for the passenger and much more. Never started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and includes assembly drawings, text instructions and history. In the 1960s, The Royal Barouche was used each year by H.M The Queen Mother on the occasion of Trooping of the Colours at the Queen's birthday parade. The box art shows the Royal Barouche being driven in the Mall in front of Buckingham Palace. Normally Greys are used, but as in the case of the single horse Royal vehicles, The Bays are sometimes used. The Barouche was a vehicle that was first seen in England around 1767 but did not become popular until much later. Similar to a coach body without its upper portion, the Barouche is an open carriage with a high driving seat and hood, no unlike an open landau. It was designed to carry four to six persons. The seats faced one another inside and in fine weather this vehicle was considered to the most delightful of all carriages of the period. Barouches were often driven by their owners as vehicles of their own rather than by their coachman, which gave them a distinction not shared by other comparable carriages.

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