Gladys Posted March 21, 2022 Share Posted March 21, 2022 14 minutes ago, 0bserver said: Because the world has moved on since the 19th Century. Would you really want your business name splattered all over a tram being dragged by a horse through busy traffic? Then the horse collapses/falls over/dies in front of everyone? Does that happen? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finlo Posted March 21, 2022 Share Posted March 21, 2022 1 minute ago, Gladys said: Does that happen? Didn't one cark it quite recently? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gladys Posted March 21, 2022 Share Posted March 21, 2022 Just now, finlo said: Didn't one cark it quite recently? Not within the past couple of years, they haven't been running. I don't remember that. Horses have the musculature to heave heavy loads and isn't it the first pull that takes the effort? A man can pull a horse tram, I seem to recall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finlo Posted March 21, 2022 Share Posted March 21, 2022 9 minutes ago, Gladys said: Not within the past couple of years, they haven't been running. I don't remember that. Horses have the musculature to heave heavy loads and isn't it the first pull that takes the effort? A man can pull a horse tram, I seem to recall. It was Albert in 2014 where did that time go! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happier diner Posted March 21, 2022 Share Posted March 21, 2022 37 minutes ago, 0bserver said: Because the world has moved on since the 19th Century. Would you really want your business name splattered all over a tram being dragged by a horse through busy traffic? Then the horse collapses/falls over/dies in front of everyone? Wasn't that Black Beauties best mate Ginger? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
immortalpuppet Posted March 21, 2022 Share Posted March 21, 2022 Yeah because that happens every day. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quilp Posted March 21, 2022 Share Posted March 21, 2022 1 hour ago, Gladys said: A man can pull a horse tram, I seem to recall. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gladys Posted March 21, 2022 Share Posted March 21, 2022 Just now, quilp said: It's Elvis!!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finlo Posted March 21, 2022 Share Posted March 21, 2022 9 minutes ago, quilp said: 10 minutes ago, quilp said: Looks like a Nora Batty convention, was Jim'll fiddle with it really at the Villa every Friday? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quilp Posted March 21, 2022 Share Posted March 21, 2022 He was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0bserver Posted March 21, 2022 Share Posted March 21, 2022 4 hours ago, Gladys said: Does that happen? Yes. 3 hours ago, finlo said: Didn't one cark it quite recently? Most recent one was probably the one that decked it outside the Palace didn't die but had to be lifted back and a vet called. It was during one of those train spotter weekends if I remember right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happier diner Posted March 22, 2022 Share Posted March 22, 2022 8 hours ago, 0bserver said: Yes. Most recent one was probably the one that decked it outside the Palace didn't die but had to be lifted back and a vet called. It was during one of those train spotter weekends if I remember right. You don't know if it's anything to do with pulling the tram though. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gladys Posted March 22, 2022 Share Posted March 22, 2022 8 hours ago, Youaintseenme said: Yes. Not what I would call recently, but also not long ago. Easily inside ten years I would think. edit - found it http://www.douglas.gov.im/index.php/news/council-news/item/889-post-mortem-reveals-tram-horse-died-from-cardiac-failure#.Yjj4OGSnzDs Was it because of pulling a tram? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amadeus Posted March 22, 2022 Share Posted March 22, 2022 They should have put them at the side of the road, out of the way of cars, noise and pollution which aren't good for horses or passengers. The fact they didn't grasp this obvious best way to do things is staggering. 5 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happier diner Posted March 22, 2022 Share Posted March 22, 2022 1 hour ago, Gladys said: Was it because of pulling a tram? 25 minutes ago, Youaintseenme said: Had the horse been mooching about a filed I would guess the strain on its heart would be less and the likelihood of cardiac arrest at that precise time would have been less. But I guess we we will never know for certain. Maybe rather than it being down to pulling the tram, it was scared by a motorbike or a lorry? We do know for certain that the horse trams were a huge waste of money even before we engineered a major road around them. We also know that the road is obviously too narrow and that when the stupid trams start running again they will hold all the traffic up. That is assuming the tracks actually work. I wouldn’t be surprised if some engineering oversight stops them running. Of course we don't know unless there was a postmortem. However like humans horses don't just drop dead with heart attacks unless they have an existing heart defect of heart disease. IMO the trams are well within the capability of one of these horses and they seem to be quite willing to plod up and down. Granted, if someone was flogging them up hills then that would be cruel. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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