Animal powered vehicles Animal powered vehicles A cart is a vehicle or device using, usually, two wheels for transport. A dray is a heavy transport version of a cart, usually with four wheels. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cart"
Chariot was the name of a WW2 naval weapon, the British manned torpedo. ...more on Wikipedia about "Chariot"
A clarence was a type of carriage popular in the 19th century. It was a four-wheeled horse-driven vehicle with room for four passengers and a glass front. The driver sat at the front, outside the carriage. It was named after Prince William, Duke of Clarence and St Andrews, later to become King William IV. ...more on Wikipedia about "Clarence (carriage)"
The Conestoga Wagon is a heavy, broad-wheeled covered freight carrier used extensively during the United States' Westward Expansion in the late 1700s and 1800s. It was large enough to transport loads up to 8 short tons (7 metric tons), and was drawn by 4 to 8 horses or up to a dozen mules or oxen. ...more on Wikipedia about "Conestoga wagon"
A curricle was a smart light two wheeled "chariot" large enough for the driver and a passenger and— most unusual for a vehicle with a single axle—drawn by a carefully-matched pair. It was popular in the early 19th century: its Latinate name is the equivalent of a "runabout" and it was a rig suitable for a smart young man who liked to drive himself, at a canter. The French liked the English-sounding term "carrick" for these vehicles. The lightweight swept body with just the lightest dashboard hung with a pair of lamps was hung from a pair of outsized swan-neck leaf springs at the rear. For a grand show in the Bois de Boulogne or along the seafront at Honfleur, two liveried mounted grooms might follow. ...more on Wikipedia about "Curricle"
A gari is a horse-drawn cart. Garis typically have two wheels with rubber tires, are pulled by one horse, and can carry two passengers plus the driver. Within towns and cities, they function as taxicabs. ...more on Wikipedia about "Gari (vehicle)"
A Hansom cab is a kind of horse-drawn carriage first designed and patented in 1834 by Joseph Hansom, an architect from Hinckley, Leicestershire, England. Originally known as the Hansom Safety Cab, its purpose was to combine speed with safety, with a low center of gravity that was essential for safe cornering. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hansom cab"
A quadriga (from the Latin language quadri-, four, and jungere, to yoke) is a four- horse chariot, raced in the Olympic Games and other sacred games, and represented in profile as the usual chariot of gods and heroes on Greek vases and bas-reliefs. The quadriga was adopted in ancient Roman chariot racing. Quadrigas became a natural emblem of triumph, victory or fame, often depicted as a triumphant woman guiding a quadriga. In classical mythology, quadrigas were the vehicles of the gods; Apollo was often depicted as driving his quadriga across the heavens, bringing daylight with him and dispersing the darkness of night. ...more on Wikipedia about "Quadriga"
The Red River ox cart was a large, two-wheeled cart made entirely of wood (usually oak) and pulled by oxen. Because nails were either unavailable or extremely expensive in the early west, these carts were frequently held together with animal sinew, most usually obtained from buffalo. It was used in the middle of the 19th century in the fur trade and in westward expansion in Canada and the United States, in the area of the Red River of the North. ...more on Wikipedia about "Red River ox cart"
The scythed chariot was a modified war chariot invented by the Persian emperor Cyrus by at least 401 BC (according to Xenophon’s novel Cyropaedia, which is not a very reliable historical source). A scythed chariot was simply a war chariot with a blade mounted on both ends of the axle. The blades extended horizontally for a meter on the sides of the chariot, rotating as the chariot was pulled. ...more on Wikipedia about "Scythed chariot"
The Sicilian cart (or Carretto Siciliano in Italian and Carrettu Sicilianu in Sicilian) is an ornate, colorful style of donkey-drawn cart native to the island of Sicily, in Italy. The cart has two wheels and is primarily handmade out of wood. Carts are used for hauling light loads, such as produce, and also for festive occasions such as weddings and parades. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sicilian cart"
A stagecoach is a type of four-wheeled enclosed passenger and/or mail coach, strongly sprung and drawn by four horses, widely used before the introduction of railway transport. In North America a stagecoach would stop to take on fresh horses at relay stations approximately every 15 miles. Approximately every 6 hours the stops were also convenient places to exchange mail, and to allow the passengers and crew food and rest breaks. Some of these stations would become towns, cities which are still there today. ...more on Wikipedia about "Stagecoach"
The tachanka ( ) was a horse-driven fighting vehicle, usually a cart or an open wagon with a stationary heavy machine gun installed in the back. It had a crew of 2 or 3 (one driver and a gun crew). The name of tachanka appears to be a Ukrainian version of an endearing form of the word tachka, meaning "a cart". ...more on Wikipedia about "Tachanka"
Twenty mule teams were teams of eighteen mules and two horses attached to large wagons that ferried borax out of Death Valley from 1883 to 1889. They traveled from mines to the nearest railroad spur, 165 miles (275 km) away in Mojave, California. ...more on Wikipedia about "Twenty mule team" This text is made on shortopedia
A wagon (in old British English waggon) is a wheeled vehicle, ordinarily with four wheels, usually pulled by an animal such as a horse, mule or ox, and used for transport of heavy goods. Wagons were more commonly used before the popular use of automobiles. ...more on Wikipedia about "Wagon"
A wagon train is a long chain of wagons, each moving together and forming a line. Wagon trains were common in the Old West, in other places of the world different forms of caravans and convoys were often used, such as camel trains in Australia. ...more on Wikipedia about "Wagon train"
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