horsedrawn

If the questioner means viaducts, the answer would be that the commercial possibilities of renting the spaces under most arches were soon realised by the railway companies and were taken up by small workshops, stables, garages for horsedrawn cabs and buses, and even as adjuncts to street markets at Shepherds Bush, for example.

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The civilian labourers, with their horsedrawn sledges, were beginning to arrive, each vehicle, as it appeared through the mist, resembling some ghostly fantastic craft cleaving a tedious path through a waveless ocean.

Work Camp 10760 L 2010

Before that day, Coca Cola was sold by a man on a horsedrawn wagon, who'd dip it from the barrel, but it always turned flat too fast.

madkestrel: Today in 1894, in Vicksburg, Mississippi madkestrel 2010

My grandfather, a rural mail carrier who started his route with a horsedrawn carriage, kept his horse until the horse died, long after my grandfather moved to using a car.

Kristine Kathryn Rusch » 2009 » July » 09 2009

The company's founder, William C. Durant, was running the nation's largest horsedrawn carriage company, but he soon realized the future lay in automobiles so he began acquiring car manufacturing companies.

Kate Kelly: Now That We Own GM: A Little of the Early Story 2009

A number of companies developed in East Anglia to make machinery for horsedrawn work and these produced implements of a very high standard.

Archive 2007-06-03 2007

Housing at Camp Moodna originally consisted of twenty converted horse cars, which Gruening obtained inexpensively from a transit company that was about to replace its older, horsedrawn cars with trolley and cable cars.

Rose Gruening. 2009

The alien gunman stood fixated as the post was dragged towards the open street, propelled by the horsedrawn length of railing.

365 tomorrows » 2007 » March : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2007

My grandfather, a rural mail carrier who started his route with a horsedrawn carriage, kept his horse until the horse died, long after my grandfather moved to using a car.

Kristine Kathryn Rusch » Freelancer’s Survival Guide: Money Part 5 2009

Srinivas Achari had obtained a horsedrawn carriage from some local gentleman and it was there ready for use.… p.

Archive 2008-09-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2008