Summary

Wooden billy cart painted fire-engine red with two small front wheels and two larger back wheels. Used by the donor and her sons in a 'billy cart derby' with families from her neighbourhood around 1983.

Physical Description

Wooden billy cart painted fire-engine red with two small front wheels and two larger back wheels. The seat consists of a back sloping back at a slight angle, and two sides. These three pieces of wood are nailed in at the base of the seat. The two back wheels have white plastic spokes and cream tyres and are attached to a plank of wood underneath the seat. A long plank of wood is screwed on to front of the seat in the centre. Bolted on to the end of this piece of wood is another plank forming a cross piece (this piece can move). The two front wheels are attached to an axle underneath this plank. Two holes, one at each end, are drilled into the wood and a length of cream-coloured flex cord is tied through the holes and forming a reign. The two front wheels have red plastic spokes and black tyres.

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