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Acape cart is a two-wheeled four-seatercarriage drawn by two horses and formerly used inSouth Africa. Equipped with a bowed canvas or leather hood, it was used to carry passengers and mail in the days beforerailways and was one of the fastest means of transport available in the region. Cape carts were developed during theBoer War as a safe way to travel across even rough terrain. The name comes from theCape of Good Hope.
Known in Afrikaans from before the 1820s as akapkar (a cart with a hood) its name was mistakenly rendered by English-speaking people as Cape cart.[1]
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