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The Australian spring cart was a simple cart designed for carrying goods and did not have seating for driver or passengers. [4] Two-wheeled carriages such as gigs and dogcarts were not usually referred to as "carts", though they would be described as "sprung". Most of the utilitarian carts did not have a seat for the driver.
Dog cart: a sprung cart used for transporting a gentleman, his loader, and his gun dogs. Dos-à-dos; Drag (carriage) Droshky or Drozhki: A low, four-wheeled open carriage used especially in Russia. Equipage; Ekka: a one-horse cart of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Fiacre: A form of hackney coach, a horse-drawn four-wheeled carriage for hire.
Horse and cart at Beamish Museum (England, 2013) Dockworkers and hand cart (Haiti, 2006). A cart or dray (Australia and New Zealand [1]) is a vehicle designed for transport, using two wheels and normally pulled by draught animals such as horses, donkeys, mules and oxen, or even smaller animals such as goats or large dogs.
These motor car lorries were two-horse vehicles, partly because of the weight carried but also because the roll-resistance of the very small wheels had to be overcome. For the same reason, it was primarily an urban vehicle so that, on the paved roads, the small wheels were not an insurmountable handicap. In any case, the axles were sprung.
Rag and bone man with horse pulling a trolley. Among horse-drawn vehicles, a trolley was a goods vehicle with a platform body with four small wheels of equal size, mounted underneath it, the front two on a turntable undercarriage. [1]
The term is a variant of the Polish term bryczka, a "little cart", from bryka, "cart", possibly coming into English via several ways, including German Britschka and Russian brichka (бричка). The Great Western Railway engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel used a black britzka as a mobile office whilst surveying the route of the railway.
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