At least one poor horse seems to have a lot of blood on him. Have seen the HC locally where one rider often is leading a 2nd horse, so can understand two getting loose if one rider was unseated as is being reported. Thankfully all 5 now reported as being caught and hope they and the injured are all OK.
This kind of shows how old I am. When I first started at the Bank of England in 1970, there was a guy still working there whose first job at the Bank was shoveling horse shit out of the bullion yard prior to the Bank starting to use mechanised transport to shift the heavy stuff. He told me the pollution and chaos from the horse-drawn traffic had to be seen and smelt to be believed.
By 1900, the City of London was drowning in horse manure. There were 11,000 hansom cabs, several thousand horse-drawn buses, needing 12 horses per day, not to mention various carts and drays. In excess of 50,000 horses in the City with each horse knocking out between 15-35 pounds of manure a day. This attracted huge numbers of flies and spread typhoid fever and other nasty things. Then there was the 2 pints of urine per day per horse. On top of this, the life expectancy of a working horse was only three years and carcasses were left in the streets to putrefy as it was then easier to saw them up into bits for removal.
Emissions on a one horse power vehicle are going to be pretty low I would suggest.
A horse produces about .75 hp.
A horse's maximum power output is actually about 15hp. James Watt coined the term in relation to a specific amount of power produced by a horse in a field doing some sort of activity.
I saw 2 horses outside charing cross this morning running up the road from trafalgar Square. These same horses now appear in all the pictures on the news... one of them appears very bloody which I didn't see so maybe happened after...
This kind of shows how old I am. When I first started at the Bank of England in 1970, there was a guy still working there whose first job at the Bank was shoveling horse shit out of the bullion yard prior to the Bank starting to use mechanised transport to shift the heavy stuff. He told me the pollution and chaos from the horse-drawn traffic had to be seen and smelt to be believed.
By 1900, the City of London was drowning in horse manure. There were 11,000 hansom cabs, several thousand horse-drawn buses, needing 12 horses per day, not to mention various carts and drays. In excess of 50,000 horses in the City with each horse knocking out between 15-35 pounds of manure a day. This attracted huge numbers of flies and spread typhoid fever and other nasty things. Then there was the 2 pints of urine per day per horse. On top of this, the life expectancy of a working horse was only three years and carcasses were left in the streets to putrefy as it was then easier to saw them up into bits for removal.
This kind of shows how old I am. When I first started at the Bank of England in 1970, there was a guy still working there whose first job at the Bank was shoveling horse shit out of the bullion yard prior to the Bank starting to use mechanised transport to shift the heavy stuff. He told me the pollution and chaos from the horse-drawn traffic had to be seen and smelt to be believed.
By 1900, the City of London was drowning in horse manure. There were 11,000 hansom cabs, several thousand horse-drawn buses, needing 12 horses per day, not to mention various carts and drays. In excess of 50,000 horses in the City with each horse knocking out between 15-35 pounds of manure a day. This attracted huge numbers of flies and spread typhoid fever and other nasty things. Then there was the 2 pints of urine per day per horse. On top of this, the life expectancy of a working horse was only three years and carcasses were left in the streets to putrefy as it was then easier to saw them up into bits for removal.
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By 1900, the City of London was drowning in horse manure. There were 11,000 hansom cabs, several thousand horse-drawn buses, needing 12 horses per day, not to mention various carts and drays. In excess of 50,000 horses in the City with each horse knocking out between 15-35 pounds of manure a day. This attracted huge numbers of flies and spread typhoid fever and other nasty things. Then there was the 2 pints of urine per day per horse. On top of this, the life expectancy of a working horse was only three years and carcasses were left in the streets to putrefy as it was then easier to saw them up into bits for removal.
Bring back diesel I say.
- All the runaway military horses that became loose this morning in central London have been caught
- The Army says "a number of personnel and horses" are injured - the ambulance service says at least four people are hurt
- One horse hit the windscreen of a double-decker tour bus - none of the bus staff were injured
- Two of the horses were caught in Limehouse - five miles away from Buckingham Palace, where the incident began
- The ambulance service says it was called at 08:25 BST to reports of a person thrown from a horse near the Palace
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-england-london-68888725I have identified as an Arabian Thoroughbred horse for months now and demand my rights, please refer to me as يطير مثل الريح from now on ...
Alright, I also drive a diesel Mondeo, but Chizz started this stupid thread in the first place!