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Buckboard Stereo card showing a long buckboard. Note the boards lay directly on the axles without springs Duke's cigarettes advertising insert card, 1850–1920. A buckboard is a four-wheeled wagon of simple construction meant to be drawn by a horse or other large animal.
This category is to list all animal-powered vehicles. ... Flint Wagon Works; Float (horse-drawn) Flying Dutchman (horse-powered locomotive) Four-in-hand (carriage) G.
Troika: a sleigh drawn by three horses harnessed abreast. Occasionally, a similar wheeled vehicle. Vardo (gypsy wagon): a vardo is a traditional horse-drawn wagon used by English Romani Gypsies. Victoria: a one-horse carriage with a front-facing bench seat. The body was slung low, in front of the back axle. Driven by a servant. Village cart
Travelling circuses decorated their wagons to be able to take part in the grand parade—even packing wagons for equipment, animal cage wagons, living vans and band wagons. [ 6 ] : 45 Popular in North America was, and still is, the float or show wagon, driven by six horses pulling a highly decorated show wagon with a token payload, and heavily ...
An ox-wagon traditionally made with the sides rising toward the rear of the wagon to resemble the lower jaw-bone of an animal is also known as a kakebeenwa (jaw-bone wagon). South Africa has 800 varieties of wood of which 17 varieties were used for wagon building. South African wood varieties are regarded as the best for wagon building.
Narrow covered wagon used by west-bound Canadian settlers c. 1885 Painting showing a wagon train of covered wagons. 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 ...
A chuckwagon, or chuck wagon, is a horse-drawn wagon operating as a mobile field kitchen and frequently covered with a white tarp, also called a camp wagon or round-up wagon. [1] It was historically used for the storage and transportation of food and cooking equipment on the prairies of the United States and Canada. [ 2 ]