steam wagon

English

Noun

steam wagon (plural steam wagons)

1. (historical) An early steam-powered road vehicle for carrying freight.

   Hyponyms: overtype, undertype

   • 1944 November and December, T. F. Cameron, “Motor and Cartage Working”, in Railway Magazine, page 335:

     The old North Eastern Railway, which was a pioneer in so many directions, obtained powers in 1905 for mechanical road operation, and shortly afterwards began to operate both steam wagons and petrol-driven buses. The steam wagons were used on country cartage services, but presumably they proved too expensive, and they were replaced by petrol-driven vehicles.

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• meat wagons, meatwagons