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Britzka: A long, spacious carriage of four wheels, pulled by two horses. Brougham: A specific, light four-wheeled carriage, circa mid-19th century. Buckboard: A very simple four-wheeled wagon, circa the early 19th century. Buggy: a light, open, four-wheeled carriage, often driven by its owner. Cabriolet: A two-wheel carriage with a folding hood.
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The Swansea and Mumbles Railway ran the world's first passenger tram service in 1807. The horse-drawn tram (horsecar) was an early form of public rail transport, which developed out of industrial haulage routes that had long been in existence, and from the omnibus routes that first ran on public streets in the 1820s [citation needed], using the newly improved iron or steel rail or 'tramway'.
A Croydon is a type of horse-drawn two-wheeled carriage. The first examples were seen around 1850 and were made of wicker -work, but they were later made of wood . See also
Articles relating to coaches, large, closed, four-wheeled, passenger-carrying vehicles or carriages usually drawn by two or more horses controlled by a coachman, a postilion, or both. A coach has doors in its sides and a front and a back seat inside. The driver has a raised seat in front of the carriage to allow better vision.
At that time man-power was much cheaper than horse-power; horses were generally only used by the military. Some of the rickshaws were artistically decorated with paintings and rear elevations. In this time, the more exuberant styles of decorations were banned. [22] If the families were well-off financially they might have their own rickshaw runner.