Lorry (horse-drawn)

[1][2] This version was a low-loading trolley used mainly for the carriage of other vehicles, for example for delivery from the coachbuilders or returning there for repair.

These motor car lorries were two-horse vehicles, partly because of the weight carried but also because the roll-resistance of the very small wheels had to be overcome.

For the same reason, it was primarily an urban vehicle so that, on the paved roads, the small wheels were not an insurmountable handicap.

As in many fields, as time went by, people used the word perhaps without understanding its detailed meaning, so that it became applied less precisely and other configurations were given the name.

However, the railway vehicles, first noted by the Oxford English Dictionary from 1838, were more like the horse-drawn road lorry.