spring cart

plural spring carts

1. A light, open, two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle, typically for two passengers, having curved steel springs mounted between the axle and the wooden body to absorb shocks.

   And Dan indignantly waved his long, brown arm over the plant, which consisted of the engine, the boring apparatus, and a dilapidated spring-cart that was pulled by a lean, lonely-looking horse[.]

   1911, ‘Steel Rudd’, The Book of Dan, Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, published 1970, page 1