Green Wagon
This Wagon was made sometime in the 1930s or 1940s and would have been a useful accessory for a steam traction engine. Its manufacturer is unknown but several companies were making such wagons at the time.
The original roof would have been made of painted, varnished sailcloth. Lockers and cupboards, a stove for cooking and heating and a sleeping berth were standard.
At one time the wagon belonged to the Highways Department of the old Huntingdonshire County Council and was used by road making gangs until the 1950s or 1960s and would have provided living accommodation for a steamroller driver.
In 1971 it was bought by local farmer Ged Bowd to shelter, in inclement weather, his casual labourers in the daffodil and strawberry fields. The wagon became a landmark of the fens for the next twenty years but was vandalised and completely wrecked and repair was thought to be impossible.
In 1992, museum volunteers restored it to its original condition, even managing to obtain and install a coal stove to put the finishing touch to this rare example of local history. The wagon has not been allowed to deteriorate and was re-painted in 2003 and 2008.