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A vardo (also Romani wag(g)on, Gypsy wagon, living wagon, caravan, van and house-on-wheels) is a four-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle traditionally used by travelling Romanichal as their home. [1]: 89–90, 168 [2]: 138 The name vardo is a Romani term believed to have originated from the Ossetic wærdon meaning cart or carriage. [3]
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. Gig (carriage): A light, two-wheeled sprung cart pulled by one horse. Gladstone; Governess cart: a sprung cart with two inward-facing benches, high sides and entry at the back. The upper ...
More specifically, a wain is a type of horse- or oxen-drawn, load-carrying vehicle, used for agricultural purposes rather than transporting people. A wagon or cart, usually four-wheeled; [1] for example, a haywain, normally has four wheels, but the term has now acquired slightly poetical connotations, so is not always used with technical ...
The hansom cab is a kind of horse-drawn carriage designed and patented in 1834 by Joseph Hansom, an architect from York. [ 1 ] : 30 The vehicle was developed and tested by Hansom in Hinckley , Leicestershire , England . [ 2 ]
Coach of a noble family, c. 1870 The word carriage (abbreviated carr or cge) is from Old Northern French cariage, to carry in a vehicle. [3] The word car, then meaning a kind of two-wheeled cart for goods, also came from Old Northern French about the beginning of the 14th century [3] (probably derived from the Late Latin carro, a car [4]); it is also used for railway carriages and in the US ...
A Ralli car (or Rally cart) is a traditional type of horse-drawn cart, named after the Ralli family. [1] The vehicle was commonly used as a general run-around for families. The design developed towards the end of the 19th century and was derived from the dog cart, which has the same seating layout. The Ralli though is a less 'sporting' version ...
A surrey is a doorless, four-wheeled carriage popular in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Usually two-seated and able to hold four passengers, surreys had a variety of tops that included a rigid, fringed canopy, parasol, and extension. [ 1 ]
A herdic was a type of horse-drawn carriage, which was frequently used as an omnibus during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It was invented by Peter Herdic of Williamsport , Lycoming County , Pennsylvania [ 1 ] [ 2 ] during the 1870s and patented in 1880.