cranked downward to allow low-loading and easy access to the goods. It was used particularly for milk delivery. Lorry: A low-loading platform body with four small wheels mounted underneath it. The driver's seat was mounted on the headboard. Mail coach: A stagecoach primarily for the carriage of mail, though also carrying passengers. Mophrey: An un-sprung cart which could be extended forwards with the addition of front wheels. It was used by small farmers as and when dense or bulky loads were to be carried (muck-spreading and harvest). An eastern English design. Pantechnicon van: Originally, a van used by The Pantechnicon for delivering goods to its customers. Prairie schooner: The name given years later to the canvas-topped farm wagons used by North American settlers to move their families and capital goods westward. See covered wagon and Conestoga wagon. Telega Travois: A very simple sledge used for moving relatively small loads, consisting of a pair of shafts dragging on the ground. Trolley: Like a lorry, but with slightly larger wheels and slightly higher deck. The driver's seat was mounted on the headboard. Trolley and lift van: A standardized trolley and a lift van, a standardized box, designed to fit each other or any other of the same sort. The lift van was the direct counterpart of the modern container in the materials and size appropriate to its time. Wagon: See also twenty mule team Wain Railway Wagonways - horse drawn trains. Rubbish wagon or slab wagon or slate wagon: A small, four-wheeled truck used for carrying blocks of slate out of a quarry. Dandy waggon: A special rail car on a gravity train used to transport the horse while coasting down a hill. Waterway Broad boat: Used on the broad (14 ft) canals of Britain and towed from the tow path. Flatboat: A canal boat of simple box-shaped design used on nineteenth-century American waterways. Horse-drawn boat: A general term relating to broad or narrow canal boats for passenger or freight carriage. Narrowboat: Used on the narrow (7 ft) canals of Britain and towed from the tow path. Slow boat: A canal boat which used only one team of horses which must stop each night to rest. Agricultural and other implements Calliope or Fairground organ Koneke noun, New Zealand - a farm vehicle with runners in front and wheels at the rear [Maori]. Plough Potato spinner Reaper Reaper-binder Seed drill Skidder Thresher War