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  2. Hand truck - Wikipedia

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    A hand truck. A hand truck, also known as a hand trolley, dolly, stack truck, trundler, box cart, sack barrow, cart, sack truck, two wheeler, or bag barrow, is an L-shaped box-moving handcart with handles at one end, wheels at the base, with a small ledge to set objects on, flat against the floor when the hand truck is upright. [1]

  3. Abingdon Historic District - Wikipedia

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    Daniel Trigg House 210 Valley St., N.E. Early to mid 19th Century Vernacular: Representative of mid 1800s middle class architecture [4] Daniel Musser House 247 Valley St., N.E. 1869 Italianate: This house is one of several on Valley Street that was considered "fashionable", representing prosperity after the Civil War [4] David G. Thomas House

  4. Mormon handcart pioneers - Wikipedia

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    John Chislett, a survivor, wrote, "Many a father pulled his cart, with his little children on it, until the day preceding his death." [ 3 ] Although only about 5 percent of the 1846–1868 Latter-day Saint emigrants made the journey west using handcarts, [ 4 ] the handcart pioneers have become an important symbol in LDS culture, representing ...

  5. Handcar - Wikipedia

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    3-wheeled handcar or velocipede on a railroad track Preserved railroad velocipede on exhibit at the Toronto Railway Historical Association. A handcar (also known as a pump trolley, pump car, rail push trolley, push-trolley, jigger, Kalamazoo, [1] velocipede, or draisine) is a railroad car powered by its passengers or by people pushing the car from behind.

  6. Handbarrow - Wikipedia

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    The handbarrow, also spelled hand-barrow and hand barrow, is a type of human-powered transport. It was originally a flat, rectangular frame used to carry loads such as salt cod , cheese and guano . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It has handles on both ends, so two people are needed to use it.

  7. Cart - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Peddler - Wikipedia

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    Today, peddlers continue to travel by foot. However, they also use bicycle, hand-held carts, horse-drawn carts or drays and motorized vehicles such as motor-bikes as transport modes. To carry their wares, peddlers use purpose-built back-packs, barrows, hand-carts or improvised carrying baskets.

  9. Costermonger - Wikipedia

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    "Mush-fakers" and ginger-beer makers at Clapham Common, 1877 by John Thomson. A costermonger, coster, or costard is a street seller of fruit and vegetables in British towns. . The term is derived from the words costard (a medieval variety of apple) [1] and monger (seller), and later came to be used to describe hawkers in general