James Arnold (author & artist)

James Arnold (1909–1999) was an English commercial artist who developed a passion for the wagons that he saw on his cycling tours of the countryside in the pre- and post-War years. He set about producing painstakingly accurate measured drawings and watercolours of all the main regional types that he came across and these he included in a series of books beginning with The Joyous Wheel (1940) and including The Farm Waggons of England and Wales (1969).

Arnold was born in Southall, Middlesex on 2 July 1909.

Never owning a car, he cycled all his life, claiming to have covered nearly half a million miles in his lifetime. In November 1946 he became a founding member of the Beacon Roads Cycling Club. He often toured with fellow members of the Cyclists' Touring Club (CTC).

In 1961 (1964?) he married fellow cyclist Jeanne (Jeane?) Boore.

James Arnold died in Welland, Worcestershire, on 7 September 1999.

As illustrator:

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