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A wagonette or waggonette, meaning little wagon, is a four-wheeled open carriage drawn by one or two horses. It has a front seat for the driver, and passengers enter from the rear and sit face to face on longitudinal bench seats. Originating around the 1840s, the body is mounted on four sets of springs. [1]: 170
A britzka or britschka (with numerous spelling variations [a]) is a type of horse-drawn carriage. What was originally an open wagon in Poland and Eastern Europe, became a passenger vehicle in Austria and was exported to Western Europe where it became popular as a travelling carriage.
The carriage is usually brightly colored and often has many tassels and bells and pneumatic tyres. [1] [3] The carriage usually seats up to four people, two people in the front and two in the back. In the Gili Islands is one of the most common forms of transport as motor vehicles are not allowed.
The Sicilian cart (or carretto siciliano in Italian and carrettu sicilianu in Sicilian or carretti (plural)) is an ornate, colorful style of horse or donkey-drawn cart native to the island of Sicily, in Italy.
One-horse shay: a light, covered, two-wheeled carriage for two persons, drawn by a single horse. Outside car: another name for jaunting car; Phaeton: a light-weight horse-drawn open carriage (usually with two seats); or an early-nineteenth-century sports car; A mid-19th-century engraving of a Phaeton, from a carriage builder's catalog
A barouche is a large, open, four-wheeled carriage, both heavy and luxurious, drawn by two horses. It was fashionable throughout the 19th century. It was fashionable throughout the 19th century. Its body provides seats for four passengers, two back-seat passengers vis-à-vis two behind the coachman's high box-seat.
The United Kingdom's 1902 State Landau is a horse-drawn carriage with flexible leather hoods which drop.. It is a postilion landau, drawn by six horses under the control of three postilions, with no provision for a coachman.
The Carriage Association of America (CAA) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the history and traditions of carriage driving, and the preservation and restoration of horse-drawn carriages and sleighs. It is headquartered at the Kentucky Horse Park along with its sister organization, the Carriage Museum of America (CMA).