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This category is to list all animal-powered vehicles. ... Flying Dutchman (horse-powered locomotive) Four-in-hand (carriage) G. Governess cart; H. Horse artillery;
Horses were domesticated circa 3500 BCE. Before that oxen were used. Historically, a wide variety of arrangements of horses and vehicles have been used, from chariot racing, which involved a small vehicle and four horses abreast, to horsecars or trollies, [note 1] which used two horses to pull a car that was used in cities before electric trams were developed.
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Animal-powered vehicles (6 C, 52 P) H. Horse transportation (4 C, 28 P) P. Pack animals (11 P) Pages in category "Animal-powered transport" The following 13 pages are ...
A bullock cart or ox cart (sometimes called a bullock carriage when carrying people in particular) is a two-wheeled or four-wheeled vehicle pulled by oxen. It is a means of transportation used since ancient times in many parts of the world. They are still used today where modern vehicles are too expensive or less suitable for the local ...
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 ...
Horse and cart at Beamish Museum (England, 2013) Dockworkers and hand cart (Haiti, 2006). A cart or dray (Australia and New Zealand [1]) is a vehicle designed for transport, using two wheels and normally pulled by draught animals such as horses, donkeys, mules and oxen, or even smaller animals such as goats or large dogs.
Human powered Festiniog Railway: 1836–1863 [3] 1 ft 11 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (597 mm) Porthmadog, Wales Horses hauled empty trains uphill, and rode down in Dandy waggons under gravity power. Later replaced by steam locomotives. Patent (1838–1844) G. Peppercorne [4] [What railway is this?] Bratislava to Svätý Jur to Trnava Váh horse railway