Transport in Orkney before the motorised car was by horse and cart. This sound was recorded on 12th March 1969.

COPYRIGHT CONTROL Thank you to the Ernest Marwick Collection and Orkney Library and Archives for the permission to use this recording. All rights of the producer and of the owner of the work reproduced reserved. Unauthorised copying, hiring, lending, public performance and broadcasting of this recording prohibited.

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