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.
This is taken from an Archer & Co letterhead, and shows a (somewhat ‘Heath-Robinsonian’) artist’s impression of the 19th century locomotive of the kind used to haul ‘lift vans’ containing furniture.
‘Not very realistic’ may be a relevant comment on the locomotive. But what does that matter? It tells the story. And I shall add some copies of letters of commendation of the firm written by satisfied customers of James Archer in the 1880s.