A ‘work in progress’ family history website starting from an Archer family of South Oxford, who were freemen, brewers, haulage contractors, and first ‘Archer & Co’ then ‘Archer Cowley & Co’ furniture removers in the 19th and 20th Centuries, inter alia, to whom are linked by marriage the Penfolds and Wells of Southwark and Surrey, the Reeds of Devon, the Gilders of Oxford and Hinckley, the Morgans of Petworth, Sussex, the Garners of Middleton, Lancs and many others. There are connections via Phil and the present generation (born 1930s/40s) with a patent law firm known as "UD&L" with motor-racing and Scottish antecedents.
And here are three examples of the horse-wagons that James Archer’s horses from the Grandpont Meadows farm were required to haul, these being called (by my grandfather William Archer at least) “Horse Pantechnicons”, as shown by the caption to the top RHS graphic on this page of the firm’s album. (19.10.2016).