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Freight car/Wagon
For anyone's peace of mind, neither freight car nor wagon in the sense of railroad components have their own articles.
Railroad car covers the several kinds of goods-hauling cars on a railroad. -
Acjelen22:39, 29 May 2005 (UTC)reply
Dray
"Dray" redirects here. In British English, this is used for the lorries that deliver beer to pubs (even though they are powered by engines and not horses).
Marnanel15:37, 29 November 2006 (UTC)reply
I don't have an issue with "Dray" redirecting here. But I'm sure that you'll find that the origin of "dray" is that it is a heavy haulage vehicle that has no springs between the body and its wheels. The only limit to its load capacity was the structural strength of the vehicle and the rolling-resistance of the roadway under its wheels. This terminology was common on New Zealand and Australian farms, timber-milling and industrial sites into the 1950s.
Lin (
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03:24, 15 September 2012 (UTC)reply
Translations
Some of the links into Wikies of other languages lead to vehicles which are not animal-drawn, mostly.
The German link, for instance ought to be
de:Fuhrwerk (Stellwagen) and not
de:Wagen.
Is this the primary topic readers are seeking when they search for "wagon"? I stumbled across this article while seeking info about the little red wagons that were all the rage when I was 8 years old. Frankly, I expected to arrive directly at the Wagon disambiguation page and, after having a look at the many types of wagon at the dab, I'm surprised that I arrived here first. Is a change warranted here? Perhaps this page should be renamed to
Wagon (vehicle), and then
Wagon should redirect to
Wagon (disambiguation)? --
Lambtron (
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18:29, 31 March 2010 (UTC)reply
Dear all. Please note there is no such language as 'British English'. There is English, as spoken by the people of England, and there are corruptions of English, such as American, Australian and Canadian English.
Mine of Information (
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10:34, 23 May 2011 (UTC)reply
Oh, well, I'm glad we got that over and done with so quickly! I didn't want to get left out of this discussion either! Maybe my English is not as important as yours? Maybe mine is more corrupt than yours? But when I'm trying to express and explain myself I only have the words in my native English vocabulary to use for that. And you might be able to adapt?
Lin (
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03:24, 15 September 2012 (UTC)reply
Agreed emphatically. I'm trying to do just that, at least to some extent with explaining the 19th century developments, as well as actually making sense of this rather important article. It really is weak in describing the field or even the types of wagons that existed. Sadly, there seems to be relatively little good online content for the armchair historian, compared to many other subject areas. Hope it will be of some use thought.
Morgan Riley (
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01:11, 6 February 2013 (UTC)reply
According to to the "freight wagon" subsection of the article, vehicles in Europe are "driven on the left side of the road".
This seems incorrect?
> In Europe, carts were steered from the right side. The cart itself was driven on the left side of the road, as vehicles are driven there today.Simon Frühauf (
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18:21, 7 August 2023 (UTC)reply