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Ox cart with bajingan at Prambanan Temple Festival. In Indonesia, bullock carts are used in the rural parts of the country for transporting goods and people, but horse carts are more common. A bullock cart driver is known as a bajingan in Indonesian. In Javanese, the term bajingan holds dual meanings.
A two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle is a cart (see various types below, both for carrying people and for goods). Four-wheeled vehicles have many names – one for heavy loads is most commonly called a wagon. Very light carts and wagons can also be pulled by donkeys (much smaller than horses), ponies or mules.
His efforts made little headway, and in protest, he proposed in 1969 to split the state in two, with horse betting legal in South Texas. [19] Nonbinding statewide referendums to revive parimutuel betting were defeated in 1962, [ 20 ] 1968, [ 21 ] 1974, [ 22 ] and 1978, [ 23 ] with opposition led largely by Baptist churches. [ 24 ]
The Australian spring cart was a simple cart designed for carrying goods and did not have seating for driver or passengers. [4] Two-wheeled carriages such as gigs and dogcarts were not usually referred to as "carts", though they would be described as "sprung". Most of the utilitarian carts did not have a seat for the driver.
Each horse was expected to haul some twelve-and-a-half tons of coal, making three round trips in six days. The work was exhausting for them and they soon became lame. Stephenson introduced the dandy wagon in 1828, which was simply a four-wheeled cart supplied with hay, attached to the rear of a four-chaldron train in which the horse could rest ...
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The cart was also relatively safe, being difficult to either fall from, overturn, or to injure oneself with either the horse or wheels. The governess cart was a relatively late development in horse-drawn vehicles, appearing around 1900 as a substitute for the dogcart. These were a similar light cart, but their high exposed seats had a poor ...
These were probably 6 ft (1.829 m) long, with four projecting ears or lugs 3 in (75 mm) by 3 + 3 ⁄ 4 in (95 mm) to enable them to be fixed to the sleepers. The rails were 3 + 3 ⁄ 4 in (95 mm) wide and 1 + 1 ⁄ 4 in (30 mm) thick. Later, descriptions also refer to rails 3 ft (914 mm) long and only 2 in (50 mm) wide. [15]