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Horses were domesticated circa 2000 BCE. [1] Before that oxen were used. Historically, a wide variety of arrangements of horses and vehicles have been used, from chariot racing, which involved a small vehicle and four horses abreast, to horsecars or trollies, [note 1] which used two horses to pull a car that was used in cities before electric trams were developed.
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Milk cart. Milk churns were transported to the customer and milk was ladled out into the customer's container. [9] The churn-carrying float became obsolete as bottled milk became common, with milkmen using trolleys, vans and carts, but the name "float" survives today for all forms of delivery of milk including today's powered milk floats.
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Human powered Festiniog Railway: 1836–1863 [3] 1 ft 11 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (597 mm) Porthmadog, Wales Horses hauled empty trains uphill, and rode down in Dandy waggons under gravity power. Later replaced by steam locomotives. Patent (1838–1844) G. Peppercorne [4] [What railway is this?] Bratislava to Svätý Jur to Trnava Váh horse railway
A Flint Wagon Works carriage c.1908. Their business became the second of Flint's "Big Three" wagon builders following William A. Paterson's founded by Paterson in 1869. The third new business was founded in the mid 1880s, William C. Durant's Flint Road Cart Company later renamed Durant-Dort Carriage Company. [3]