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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.
Young boy in a billy cart outside a Queenslander home at Indooroopilly, Brisbane ca. 1910. The first references to billy carts appear in the 1880s, with the term identified as originating from wooden carts pulled by billygoats, with these carts being a commonplace occurrence throughout Australia prior to the emergence of the automobile.
A sulky is a lightweight cart used for harness racing. It has two wheels and a small seat for only a single driver. It has two wheels and a small seat for only a single driver. The modern racing sulky has shafts that extend in a continuous bow behind the driver's seat, with wire-spoked "bike" wheels and inflated tyres.
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.
The term "billycart" originates from the Australian billygoat-pulled cart of the 1880s. Originally, a simple platform with four wheels and a moveable front steering column, the billycart was adapted to become a self-powered vehicle which children would race; the challenge being, to travel as fast and/or far as possible with the least initial momentum.
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