Animal-Drawn Vehicle

Basic Information

This page is about vehicles that are not mechanically powered, but are instead drawn by a domesticated animal, such as a horse or ox.

The following list includes many of the more interesting or iconic designs of animal-drawn vehicle.

• Calliope (music)
• Carriage
  • Barouche
  • Britzka
  • Buggy
  • Hansom Cab
  • Landau (carriage)
  • Phaeton (carriage)
  • Stagecoach
  • Vardo (Romani wagon)
• Chariot
  • Scythed Chariot
• Covered Wagon
  • Buckboard
  • Conestoga Wagon
• Droshky
• Horse-Drawn Boat
• Limbers and Caissons (military)
• Lorry (horse-drawn)
• Naturmobil
• Sleigh
• Skidder
• Sprung Cart
  • Dogcart
  • Jaunting Car
• Tachanka
• Tarantass
• Travois

See also:

Horse Artillery
Horse Harness
Howdah
Litter (Vehicle)
Rickshaw
Twenty-mule Team

Sources

Bibliography

1. Wikipedia article on horse-drawn vehicles from which most of the above list is cribbed. There's a lot on that list, and I probably missed a few good ones, but some of the distinctions are just splitting hairs, and I didn't want to get too technical here.

Game and Story Use

• Provide some color and flavor to the cultures in a fantasy game by using a variety of different animal-drawn vehicles instead of the generic wagon.
  • For that matter, a fantasy setting can probably get away with vehicles drawn by mythological creatures instead of boring old horses and oxen.