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  • Thumbnail for Wagon
    delivery wagon include an ice wagon and a milk wagon. Tank wagons carried liquid cargoes. Water wagons delivered to areas without piped water and for military...
    19 KB (1,982 words) - 05:19, 24 November 2024
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    hung on the rear axletree, or an underside bar connecting two wheels, of the wagon. Conestoga wagons may also be equipped with water barrels on the side...
    50 KB (6,859 words) - 08:11, 22 November 2024
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    Butterfield Overland Mail (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
    through the frontier from Fort Smith, Arkansas, to Los Angeles, California. Other wagons used by Butterfield were water wagons and freight wagons. Water wagons...
    79 KB (11,027 words) - 03:21, 24 October 2024
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    A wagon fort, wagon fortress, wagenburg or corral, often referred to as circling the wagons, is a temporary fortification made of wagons arranged into...
    18 KB (2,127 words) - 06:49, 12 November 2024
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    Chuckwagon (redirect from Chuck wagon)
    them to be fed on the road for months at a time. Goodnight modified a Studebaker-manufactured covered wagon, a durable Civil War army-surplus wagon, to suit...
    12 KB (1,256 words) - 23:31, 24 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Oregon Trail
    Wagon trails were cleared increasingly farther west and eventually reached the Willamette Valley in Oregon, at which point what came to be called the...
    144 KB (19,299 words) - 04:35, 21 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Overseas Tankship (UK) Ltd v The Miller Steamship Co
    that the officers of the Wagon Mound would regard the oil as very difficult, but not impossible, to ignite on water (2) ignition of the oil on waters...
    6 KB (789 words) - 21:03, 2 May 2023
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    lashed to the body of the wagon. They were a popular style of vehicle for overland migrations. The Conestoga wagon was a heavy American wagon of English...
    12 KB (1,254 words) - 08:06, 22 November 2024
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    areas on the pass were added to the National Register of Historic Places to include achievements made by John Q.A. Rollins and his toll wagon road that...
    216 KB (19,126 words) - 22:54, 24 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Overseas Tankship (UK) Ltd v Morts Dock and Engineering Co Ltd
    to the outcome, although not central to this case's legal significance. The Wagon Mound (No 1) should not be confused with the successor case of the Overseas...
    10 KB (1,237 words) - 01:41, 15 November 2024
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    are used for the transportation of cargo. A variety of wagon types are in use to handle different types of goods, but all goods wagons in a regional...
    14 KB (1,640 words) - 09:06, 13 June 2024
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    Ox-wagons were also used in the United States. The first recorded use of an ox-wagon was around 1670,[citation needed] but they continue to be used...
    9 KB (1,201 words) - 08:11, 10 November 2024
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    A toy wagon has the same structure as the traditional, larger wagon, but is much smaller and has an open top. An average wagon is able to seat one child...
    5 KB (649 words) - 12:54, 21 February 2024
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    greater than the weight of the loaded train that will be hauled uphill. The water is either carried in an additional water wagon attached to the descending...
    20 KB (2,543 words) - 14:57, 21 November 2024
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    attached to large wagons that transported borax out of Death Valley from 1883 to 1898. They traveled from mines across the Mojave Desert to the nearest...
    15 KB (1,965 words) - 04:43, 16 November 2024
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    Ward Bond. The story follows a Mormon pioneer wagon train across treacherous desert to the San Juan River in Utah. The film inspired the US television...
    33 KB (3,842 words) - 18:00, 19 November 2024
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    Living van (redirect from Showman's wagon)
    machine, a living van and often a water wagon would travel from farm to farm as needed, stopping at each for a few days. The first engines, from around 1840...
    8 KB (921 words) - 13:01, 1 April 2024
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    Steam locomotive (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
    additional water wagon, sometimes called a "canteen" or in Australia (particularly in New South Wales) a "water gin". Steam locomotives working on underground...
    146 KB (17,882 words) - 09:08, 22 November 2024
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    2024 Attica wildfires (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
    fighting the fire on the ground, by water wagons from the regional administration and the armed forces. 12 planes and 6 helicopters were dousing the fires...
    15 KB (1,293 words) - 09:24, 4 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mercedes-Benz G-Class
    The Mercedes-Benz G-Class, colloquially known as the G-Wagon or G-Wagen (as an abbreviation of Geländewagen), is a four-wheel drive luxury SUV manufactured...
    167 KB (15,842 words) - 23:21, 19 November 2024
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