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For covered wagons there was the Class A2 wagon with a 15 t (14.8 long tons; 16.5 short tons) maximum load and 21.3 m 2 (229 sq ft) loading area built to a standard template, and the large-volume covered wagon based on template A9, also with a 15 t (14.8 long tons; 16.5 short tons) maximum load, but a 21.3 m 2 (229 sq ft) loading area.
A covered wagon, also called a prairie wagon, whitetop, [1] or prairie schooner, [2] is a horse-drawn or ox-drawn wagon used for passengers or freight hauling. It has a canvas, tarpaulin, or waterproof sheet which is stretched over removable wooden bows (also called hoops or tilts) and lashed to the body of the wagon.
Pojangmacha (Korean: 포장마차; lit. covered wagon [1]), also abbreviated as pocha (포차), is a South Korean term for outdoor carts that sell street foods such as hotteok, gimbap, tteokbokki, sundae, dak-kkochi (Korean skewered chicken), [2] fish cake, mandu, and anju (foods accompanying drinks). [3]
Covered wagons and wagon trains are a lasting symbol of America’s expansion west from the 1820s through the 1860s, along the Santa Fe, California and Oregon Trails, all of which started in ...
On a Saturday in February, a group of strangers loads into a covered wagon for a guided tour of Duette Preserve. Sponsored by the Manatee Fish & Game Association and Manatee County Government, the ...
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 transport vehicle and mobile home. They were specialized vehicles for ...
The Covered Wagon lobby poster. The Covered Wagon is a 1923 American silent epic Western film released by Paramount Pictures.The film was directed by James Cruze based on a 1922 novel of the same name by Emerson Hough about a group of pioneers traveling through the old West from Kansas to Oregon.
A chariotee was a light, covered, four-wheeled pleasure carriage with two seats. [1] A post chariot was a carriage for traveling post. The term was used specifically for a kind of light four-wheeled carriage with a driver's seat in front. [2] [3] A vehicle such as a cart or wagon for transporting goods was also sometimes called a chariot.