page_title: Stage wagon
section_title: Some manufacturers
hierarchical_section_title: Stage wagon / Some manufacturers
caption_attribution_description: English: Overland wagon (a canvas-topped stage wagon) available in two sizes, 6 or 9 passengers available with: doors, painted sail duck top, sail duck or enameled curtains, lined in leather, back boot, driver's apron.Abbot, Downing &amp; Co. catalog 1871
context_page_description: Stage wagons are light horse-drawn or mule-drawn public passenger vehicles often referred to as stagecoaches. Like stagecoaches they made long scheduled trips using stage stations or posts where the horses would be replaced by fresh horses. Stage wagons were intended for use in particularly difficult conditions where standard stagecoaches would be too big and too heavy.
  This style of vehicle was often called a mud-coach or mud-wagon. More like wagons than coaches, the sides of the vehicle gave passengers little protection from the dirt of the road. Abbot, Downing named theirs an overland wagon. A brand-name, Celerity, later became popular in place of mud.
context_section_description: Abbot, Downing, Concord, New Hampshire
  Milton P Henderson of Stockton California made stage wagons of the same style as Abbot, Downing. The firm began in 1869 as a partnership with E G Clark. They can be identified by the finish of the sides of the bodies and the method of attachment of iron stays back and front.
  P O LeMay and Livy Swan at Yreka, California
  Weisenhorn Carriage in Helena, Montana built a vehicle very like an Abbot, Downing Australian wagon
  Celerity was a brand of Stage wagon made in Troy, New York.
caption: Abbot, Downing's Overland Wagon
  a canvas-topped stage wagon 1871[note 1]
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