Coaches and Carriages

In our restoration centre we offer the complete spectrum of craftsmanship, from maintenance and small repairs all the way up to the very highest standard in fully comprehensive restorations. In our centre you will find a fully fitted woodworking shop and a smithy. A part missing? No problem, we will recreate it for you. Whether it’s about repairing wooden or metal parts of your carriage or old timer, we are at your service.
By the way, we also have a boiler, for use in the steam-aided bending of wood.

Certified Appraisers of carriages and coaches
An appraisal report of a European Certified Appraiser provides a clear and objective valuation of your carriage or collection.

Further reading >> Appraisals

Library

Our love for our restoration work began with research and documentation of historic carriages.
We now have a large archive of photographs of virtually every detail, and a library filled with books on related technical subjects.
Furthermore we are part of a network of enthusiastic colleagues and carriage fans, abroad as well as in our home country, that can support us with their knowledge and craftsmanship.

From Dog-Drawn-Cart to Royal Carriage
We have many years of experience in the restoration of not only several top makes of Road coaches, Drags, Omnibuses, Breaks, Gigs and Carts, Travelling Carriages, C-spring and elliptic Carriages, Dress Coaches, Dress Chariots and Dress Calèches well as Royal Vehicles.
But also Coat Carts, Children’s Carriages, Farm Wagons, Gun Carriages, Lamps for Carriages or Cars, Travel Accessories, Harness Cabinets, Ice-cream Carts , Fire Pumps, Hearses, amongst other things.

Horseless carriages
In the final days of the horse-drawn coach era, many carriage builders switched to building bodies on a traveling landau

third party chassis, such as a Rolls-Royce, Renault or Mercedes chassis. This is why very early automobiles have carriage bodies, hence they were called “horseless carriages”. Examples of well known carriage builders that made the switch to automobile bodies are, Brewster, Barker, Binder, Million & Guiet, Hooper, Morgan and Rothschild.
That’s why we, of course, are the right address for the restoration of your early historic automobile.
Further reading >> Horseless carriages

Step by step custom made
Next to the conservation of original paint and polychrome, we also apply totally new paint systems. All as you wish. Starting from a quickly applied, simple weatherproof paint system, up to a historically correct custom made product done manually by brush, with fine pinstriping.

Further reading >> the use of colours.

Further reading >> Carriage lamps and fine metal restoration

Coat of arms and monogram
One of our highly advanced restoration techniques is the cleaning, conservation and virtually invisible integration of remaining old coats of arms or monograms into an otherwise new paint system. Of course, we can also design a coat of arms or monogram for you, and manually apply that on your carriage or automobile.

Safety first!
Do you own a much cherished carriage, while being DIY challenged? We can do the maintenance and servicing for you. Think small repairs, greasing the axles, or preparing for a show.

Further reading >> maintenance