The freight wagon was the Continental Army's daily logistics vehicle — the rolling stock that hauled flour and salt pork and gunpowder and tents and tools from depots and farms to the army wherever it was camped or marching. The most famous American wagon type of the period was the Conestoga, built by Pennsylvania German wagonmakers in Lancaster County from the late seventeenth century onward and used in large numbers for Continental supply work; this W. Britain piece is a simpler farm-and-freight wagon of the same general era, the kind every Pennsylvania or New York farmer kept in his barn and the kind the quartermaster's department would either contract from civilians or impress outright when the campaign called for it. Blue body and red wheels were the traditional eighteenth-century American wagon color scheme — a holdover from German wagonmaking practice that the Conestoga builders carried into the American repertoire. The wagon pairs naturally with the W. Britain Yoke of Oxen for the draft team that pulled it, the Regal Enterprises Knox's Artillery Regiment whose ammunition and stores rolled forward on exactly such wagons, and the Tradition of London American Generals set with Nathanael Greene at the headquarters — he served as Continental Army Quartermaster General from 1778 to 1780, chasing every wagon and teamster across the army's supply lines.

Set Number: 20075 / W. Britain / 1/30 (60mm) scale / matte finish / 1-piece