AMERICAN WAGGON FOR FARM WORK OR GENERAL TRAFFIC.

Otago Witness, Issue 1324, 14 April 1877, Page 18

AMERICAN WAGGON FOR FARM WORK OR GENERAL TRAFFIC.

A year or two ago, Mr Kobert Dodds, a Canadian, resiuing at Milton, had an American waggon made by the late Mr James Wallace, which was a great improvement on the ordinary dray used by our farmers and carters. There are four pretty heavy wheels, which are held together in the simplest and strongest manner by gearing similar to that. ,of the common American waggon used by carriers, only lighter, and there are holsters for the body to lit into. The latter can be Jifted on and off, so that the vehicle will answer as a box waggon, a timber truck, or a hay cart. The horses are most securely fastened in, -the breeching being attached to the neck of the yoke and pole. t Mr Wallace made two of these and Messrs Graham" and Kennard, of Milton, have made four, one only of which was for a farmer. One which they have lately turned out for a merchant in Milton, we saw in use, and the driver assured us that he preferred it to any waggon or cart he has ever used. With two light ponies which he had harnessed in, he said he could "do far more work than with two heavy horses in an ordinary dray. In a moment it can be made to suit any kind of work.