As you have just illustrated with ‘definitions’ which would be argued with in my part of the world!However there are innumerable regional variations in name and configuration.
Not necessarily - hence my comment above!Learned something new. cart has 2 wheels a waggon has 4.
The naming of horse drawn vehicles is a minefield with lots of regional variations but I don't think this can be called a cart. The LNER probably referred to it as a dray.
That’s interesting as in Australia it would be a lorry. Maybe it was just a GWR thing to call their 4 wheel flat topped delivery wagons drays. A dray in Australia was a heavy duty 2 wheel cart with a low sided body and large wheels but no springs, used for earth moving in construction etc. Unless the lorry was owned by a brewery when it would be called a brewer’s dray.But if it was ex-NER it would be a lurry.
Well i checked on Wikipedia and they concurred with Ian@stEnochsNot necessarily - hence my comment above!
Dave
That really is an example of local nomenclature. Did the North Eastern Railway have a different diagram book for the parts of their railway outside Yorkshire who would have called a rulley something else, probably a lorry.Hi Bill,
Almost, as Eric Morcambe, famously said "all the right notes but not necessarily in the right order".
I have a copy of the NER horse drawn rolling stock diagram book, and they are listed as 'Rullies'
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Well, I’ve learned something, I never knew there were 2 g’s in wagon!
Apparently it’s old English, that is if you believe any website beginning with wiki.