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Encyclopedia > Wagon
For other uses, see Wagon (disambiguation).
"Dray" redirects here. For the songwriter, see Dray Skky.
Wagon with horses harnessed to its pole
Wagon with horses harnessed to its pole

A wagon (in British English, sometimes waggon) or dray is a heavy four-wheeled vehicle. Wagons were formerly pulled by animals such as horses, mules or oxen. Today farm wagons are pulled by tractors and trucks. Wagons are used for transportation of people or goods. Wagons are distinguished from carts (which have two wheels), and from lighter four-wheeled vehicles such as carriages. A wagon could be pulled by one animal or by several, often in pairs. A wagon is: a wagon, a wheeled vehicle, usually pulled by an animal, used for transport of heavy goods in the past a wagon, a kind of railroad car used for transporting goods as opposed to passengers (the term in American English is freight car) a station wagon a toy... http://www. ... http://www. ... British English (BrE, BE, en-GB) is the broad term used to distinguish the forms of the English language used in the United Kingdom from forms used elsewhere in the Anglophone world. ... The Trikke is a Human Powered Vehicle (HPV) Automobiles are among the most commonly used engine powered vehicles. ... Binomial name Equus caballus Linnaeus, 1758 The horse (Equus caballus, sometimes seen as a subspecies of the Wild Horse, Equus ferus caballus) is a large odd-toed ungulate mammal, one of ten modern species of the genus Equus. ... For other uses, see Mule (disambiguation). ... Binomial name Bos taurus Linnaeus, 1758 Cattle are domesticated ungulates, a member of the subfamily Bovinae of the family Bovidae. ... For the movement of people or objects, see transport. ... Good (accounting) - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... A cart is a vehicle or device, using two wheels and normally one horse, designed for transport. ... Catherine IIs carved, painted and gilded Coronation Coach (Hermitage Museum) George VI and Queen Elizabeth in a landau with footmen and an outrider, Canada 1939 The classic definition of a carriage is a four-wheeled horse drawn private passenger vehicle with leaf springs (elliptical springs in the 19th century...


Sometimes, the word wagon is also used for railroad cars (not motorized, for goods or passengers), and the word is a part / the usual short form of station wagon, the non-British term for a sedan (saloon) with an extended rear cargo area. Other names: estate (car) / shooting brake (UK), break (F), station sedan (Aus), Kombi (generally in German, in English also varied to combi), Variant (VW models), Caravan (GM's Opel models), Avant (Audi's wagons), Touring (BMW's wagons). A railroad car (or, more briefly, car, not to be confused with railcar), also known as an item of rolling stock, is a vehicle on a railroad (or railway) that is not a locomotive — one that provides another purpose than purely haulage, although some types of car are powered. ... Estate car body style (Saab 95) A station wagon (United States usage), wagon (Australian usage, though station wagon is widely used) or estate car (United Kingdom usage) is a car body style similar to a sedan car but with an extended rear cargo area. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... VW redirects here. ... General Motors Corporation, also known as GM, is a multinational corporation headquartered in the United States and has been the worlds largest and most dominant automaker since 1931 till the second half of 2007, surpassed by Toyota; as well as the global industry sales leader for 77 years. ... This article is about the European car manufacturer. ... Audi AG, more commonly known as Audi, is a premium German automobile manufacturer and one of the worlds leading performance-luxury marques, with headquarters in Ingolstadt, Bavaria. ... For other uses, see BMW (disambiguation). ...


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It has been suggested that Child carrier be merged into this article or section. ... A four-wheeled wagon of simple construction meant to be drawn by a horse or other large animal. ... Catherine IIs carved, painted and gilded Coronation Coach (Hermitage Museum) George VI and Queen Elizabeth in a landau with footmen and an outrider, Canada 1939 The classic definition of a carriage is a four-wheeled horse drawn private passenger vehicle with leaf springs (elliptical springs in the 19th century... A cart is a vehicle or device, using two wheels and normally one horse, designed for transport. ... A covered wagon replica at the High Desert Museum 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. ... Look up dolly in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... European type dolly trailer A dolly that can be hitched to a truck as a full trailer so as to support a semi-trailer. ... Karting, go-kart, go carting and similar terms redirect here. ... A Lamborghini built golf cart A golf cart (officially referred to as a golf car according to ANSI standard z130. ... In the United Kingdom, the name hackney carriage refers to a taxicab licensed by the Public Carriage Office in Greater London or by the local authority (non-metropolitan district councils or unitary authorities) in other parts of England, Wales, and Scotland, or by the Department of the Environment in Northern... Throughout history and before, there has been a huge number of types of horse-drawn vehicle. ... Among horse-drawn vehicles, a lorry was a low-loading trolley. ... Autobus redirects here. ... The Ox-wagon (Afrikaans: Ossewa) was a traditional form of transport, especially in Southern Africa. ... It has been suggested that Child carrier be merged into this article or section. ... A wagon covered with white canvas, made famous by its almost universal use in the migration across the Western prairies and plains, and so called in allusion to the white-topped schooners of the sea. ... Radio Flyer is an American toy company best known for their popular red wagon. ... A toy wagon has the same structure as the larger wagon (a box on wheels), but with an open top and a much smaller size. ... Children racing soapbox cars A soapbox car (also variously known as a soapbox cart, and especially in Australia, billy cart) is a motorless vehicle capable of holding a driver (usually a child) built for the purpose of racing or recreation. ... Stagecoach in Switzerland 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. ... Surrey is the name of several places: Canada: Surrey, British Columbia United Kingdom: Surrey, England United States of America: Surrey, North Dakota Surrey, Maine Surrey is also shorthand for Surrey County Cricket Club or the University of Surrey This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages... Among horse-drawn vehicles, a trolley was a goods vehicle with a platform body with four small wheels of equal size, mounted underneath it, the front two on a turntable undercarriage. ... 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. ... Wagon Train was a television series on NBC from 1957 to 1962 and on ABC from 1962 to 1965. ... The wagon-wheel effect, (alternatively, waggon-wheel effect, stagecoach-wheel effect, stroboscopic effect) is an optical illusion in which a spoked wheel appears to rotate differently from its true rotation. ... Wheelchair seating in a theater A lightweight manual wheelchair A wheelchair is a complex medical device used by people for whom walking is difficult or impossible due to illness or disability and incorporates posturally supportive seating, including pressure cushions in many cases. ...

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Wagon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (150 words)
A wagon (in British English waggon) or dray is a wheeled vehicle, ordinarily with four wheels, usually pulled by an animal, or animals, such as horses, mules or oxen and used for transport of heavy goods.
Wagons can have side walls to retain the load it is holding, or may consist of a flat bed.
While wagons are commonly used as toys for children or carrying heavy loads in the garden, the history of the wagons dates back centuries.
Prairie Schooners (1031 words)
Conestoga wagons were large, heavy, and had beds shaped somewhat like boats, with angled ends and a floor that sloped to the middle so barrels wouldn't roll out when the wagon was climbing or descending a hill.
The wagon box, or bed, was made of hardwoods to resist shrinking in the dry air of the plains and deserts the emigrants had to cross.
Nonetheless, many emigrants took to soaking their wagon wheels in rivers and springs overnight, as it was not unheard of for the dry air to shrink the wood so much that the iron tires would roll right off the wheels during the day.
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