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A kalesa (Philippine Spanish: calesa), is a two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage used in the Philippines. [1] [2] It is commonly vividly painted and decorated. [3] It was the primary mode of public and private transport in the Philippines during the Spanish and the American colonial period. Their use declined with the increasing use of motorized ...
They were also formerly widely used for the transport of goods throughout the islands. They are a source of carabao milk and carabeef, among other products. The carabao is widely considered to be the national animal of the Philippines and symbolizes hard work. [3] [5] Carabaos were introduced to Guam from the Philippines in the 17th century.
A further 196 carriages, known as Lucy Suburban Carriages were constructed between 1913 and 1916 but had steel under frames and separate bodywork. While they retained the general layout and appearance of the American Suburban Carriage, they were generally not referred to as such and 193 were later completely rebuilt for use in Electric train ...
This group ranged from numbers 1 to 274, although over 100 numbers were recycled at least once. Most of the cars were similar to each other; typically four or five compartments with doors either side and long bench seats across the width of the carriage, allowing for a total of forty or fifty passengers per car; with a curved roof and a four- or six-wheeled underframe.
Compartments contained two bench seats, with a central footway connecting to outward-swinging doors either side, which could be locked with a standard square carriage key. In the exclusively first-class carriages, compartments were 7 ft 3 + 7 ⁄ 8 in (2.232 m) wide, including the 2 ft 3 in (0.69 m) footway and the two 2 ft 6 + 7 ⁄ 16 in (0. ...
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.
Early artwork for the cars reflected the low-slung body, mostly unpainted stainless steel with orange bands on the roof and below platform level, and doors in all four corners. Later artwork by Comeng's artist Phil Belbin, essentially reflected a repainted XPT carriage - with a full height body, a single vestibule with access doors at one end ...
The S type carriage stock was a type of steel passenger carriage operated by the New South Wales Government Railways from 1935 until 1989. History ...