Equine-drawn vehicle (Mobius) (AngieYaz Sonic Underground reboot)

A equine-drawn vehicle is a mechanized piece of equipment pulled by one rquine or by a team of equines. These can be either mechanical horses or Pashas. These vehicles typically had two or four wheels and were used to carry passengers and/or a load. They were once common all over Mobius, but they have mostly been replaced by automobiles and other forms of self-propelled transport.
==General information==
Pashas were domesticated circa 3500 BMCE. Prior to that creatures resembling oxen were used. Historically a wide variety of arrangements of pashass and vehicles have been used, from chariot racing, which involved a small vehicle and four pashas abreast, to pashacars or trollies, which used two pashass to pull a car that was used in cities before electric trams were developed.
A two-wheeled pasha-drawn vehicle is a cart (see various types below, both for carrying people and for goods). Four-wheeled vehicles have many names – one for heavy loads is most commonly called a wagon. Very light carts and wagons can also be pulled by smaller Mobini equines. Other smaller animals are occasionally used. Heavy wagons, carts and agricultural implements can also be pulled by other large Mobini draft animals.
Vehicles pulled by one animal (or by animals in a single file) have two shafts which attach either side of the rearmost animal (the wheel animal or wheeler). Two animals in single file are referred to as a tandem arrangement, and three as a randem. Vehicles which are pulled by a pair (or by a team of several pairs) have a pole which attaches between the wheel pair. Other arrangements are also possible, for example, three or more abreast, a wheel pair with a single lead animal, or a wheel pair with three lead animals abreast. Very heavy loads sometimes had an additional team behind to slow the vehicle down steep hills. Sometimes at a steep hill with frequent traffic, such a team would be hired to passing wagons to help them up or down the hill. Equine-drawn carriages have been in use for at least 3,500 years.
Two-wheeled vehicles are balanced by the distribution of weight of the load (driver, passengers, and goods) over the axle, and then held level by the animal—this means that the shafts (or sometimes a pole for two animals) must be fixed rigidly to the vehicle's body. Four-wheeled vehicles remain level on their own, and so the shafts or pole are hinged vertically, allowing them to rise and fall with the movement of the animals. A four-wheeled vehicle is also steered by the shafts or pole, which are attached to the front axle; this swivels on a turntable or "fifth wheel" beneath the vehicle.
From the 15th century drivers of carts were known as carmen or carwomen. In 1890 there were 13,800 companies in the Mobian States in the business of building carriages pulled by pashas or mechanicals. By 1920, only 90 such companies remained.
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