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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.
Chuckwagon is a wagon working as a field kitchen. Conestoga wagon: A large, curved-bottom wagon for carrying commercial or government freight. See covered wagon. Float: A light, two-wheeled domestic delivery vehicle with the centre of its axle cranked downward to allow low loading and easy access to the goods. It was used particularly for milk ...
A 1909 Studebaker surrey on display at the Northeast Texas Rural Heritage Center and Museum in August 2015. A surrey is a doorless, four-wheeled carriage popular in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
To further increase sales, Shaw began selling plans to build a car to use his engine. It was a very basic cyclecar, a buckboard with a motor. The Shawmobile was powered by a front-mounted Shaw gasoline engine with belt drive to the rear wheels. Wheels were of the wire bicycle type. By 1908 Shaw built and sold complete Shawmobiles.
A Rockaway carriage at a museum in Illinois. Rockaway is a term applied to two types of carriage: a light, low, United States four-wheel carriage with a fixed top and open sides that may be covered by waterproof curtains, and a heavy carriage enclosed at sides and rear, with a door on each side.
The American mud wagon was an earlier, smaller, and cruder vehicle, being mostly open-sided with minimal protection from weather, causing passengers to risk being mud-splashed. [1]: 120 A canvas-topped stage wagon was used for freight and passengers, and it had a lower center of gravity, making it harder to overturn. [1]: 153
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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 ...