A Vardo is a four-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle used by British Romanichal Travellers as their home. It is pulled by a single horse in shafts, sometimes with a second horse hitched on its right side outside the shafts to help pull heavier loads or assist in pulling up a hill. The vehicle is typically highly decorated, intricately carved, brightly painted, and even gilded. The Romanichal Traveller tradition of the vardo is seen as a high cultural point of both artistic design and a masterpiece of woodcrafter's art.
Interior of a Reading vardo, as used by the British Romani (Romanichal), donated to the transport museum in Glasgow by a family from the Scottish village of Rhu.
Romanichal-style trotting cart
Romanichal Reading vardo, early 20th century
Romnichal-style Ledge vardo
A horse-drawn vehicle is a piece of equipment pulled by one or more horses. These vehicles typically have two or four wheels and were used to carry passengers or a load. They were once common worldwide, but they have mostly been replaced by automobiles and other forms of self-propelled transport but are still in use today.
A horse tram (horsecar) in Danzig, Germany (present day Gdańsk, Poland)
Cart - Two wheels, one horse
Chariot - Two wheels, two or four horses, driver usually standing
Carriage - Four wheels