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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.
Harness racing sulky (2007) Horse show sulky for roadster classes (2012) Wooden racing sulky (c. 1895–1910) Horse-drawn mower with a "sulky seat" [1] A sulky is a lightweight cart used for harness racing. It has two wheels and a small seat for only a single driver.
A horse harness is a device that connects a horse to a horse-drawn vehicle or another type of load to pull. There are two main designs of horse harness: (1) the breast collar or breaststrap, and (2) the full collar or collar-and-hames. For pulling heavy loads, a full collar is required because it distributes pressure over a larger area of the ...
Pony trap in Brisbane, Australia, 1900. Pony and trap in northern England.. Trap_or_cart,_c_1903. A trap, pony trap (sometimes pony and trap) or horse trap is a light, often sporty, two-wheeled or sometimes four-wheeled horse- or pony-drawn carriage, usually accommodating two to four persons in various seating arrangements, such as face-to-face or back-to-back.
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.
A typical wooden swingletree with iron fittings The red horizontal bar behind the horse is a swingletree A swingletree built into a cart. The swingletree is the triangular piece in the foreground; the traces are the leather straps leading forward from this. (Swingletrees are more commonly a simple bar, not a triangle.)
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 ...
Fashionable phaetons used at horse shows included the Stanhope, typically having a high seat and closed back, [6] and the Tilbury, a two-wheeled carriage with an elaborate spring suspension system, with or without a top. [7] A variation of this type of a carriage is called a Victoria, with a retractable cover over the rear passenger compartment.