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Ekka: a one-horse cart of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Fiacre: A form of hackney coach, a horse-drawn four-wheeled carriage for hire. Resting coachmen at a Fiaker (fiacre) in Vienna; Fly: A horse-drawn public coach or delivery wagon, especially one let out for hire. Four-in-hand coach; Gharry: A horse-drawn cab especially used in India.
Travelling circuses decorated their wagons to be able to take part in the grand parade—even packing wagons for equipment, animal cage wagons, living vans and band wagons. [ 6 ] : 45 Popular in North America was, and still is, the float or show wagon, driven by six horses pulling a highly decorated show wagon with a token payload, and heavily ...
Mud-wagon. They were not unlike a freight wagon with a high driver's seat, bench seats on the tray, and posts holding up canvas to shelter passengers from the weather.. Those stage wagons with throroughbraces had an undercarriage like those used by a Concord coach but the thoroughbraces were much shorter and mounted to make sure there was much less motion of the body.
A Welsh Cob in harness Horses pulling a sleigh. Driving, when applied to horses, ponies, mules or donkeys, is a broad term for hitching equines to a wagon, carriage, cart, sleigh or other horse-drawn vehicle by means of a harness and working them in this way.
1862 print of a Conestoga wagon operated by draft horses and drivers. The Conestoga wagon is a more robust variant of covered wagon – it has the general characteristics of being a wooden wagon with both hickory bows on top to hold up a waterproof canvas and wooden wheels. Covered wagons are generally pulled by draft horses and act as both a ...
Buckboard Stereo card showing a long buckboard. Note the boards lay directly on the axles without springs Duke's cigarettes advertising insert card, 1850–1920. A buckboard is a four-wheeled wagon of simple construction meant to be drawn by a horse or other large animal.
A chuckwagon, or chuck wagon, is a horse-drawn wagon operating as a mobile field kitchen and frequently covered with a white tarp, also called a camp wagon or round-up wagon. [1] It was historically used for the storage and transportation of food and cooking equipment on the prairies of the United States and Canada. [ 2 ]
Wagonways improved coal transport by allowing one horse to deliver between 10 and 13 long tons (10.2 and 13.2 t; 11.2 and 14.6 short tons) of coal per run— an approximate fourfold increase. Wagonways were usually designed to carry the fully loaded wagons downhill to a canal or boat dock and then return the empty wagons back to the mine.