TEANSPOET BY SEA AND LAND 931 



Under The Water Supply on Railways Order of 1895, Railway 

 Companies are compelled to provide water for animals carried over 

 their system. 



Teanspoet by Eoad. 



The transport of animals by road is limited to those 

 which are sick and injured, or suffering from infectious 

 diseases. 



Some fat stock are also conveyed in this manner to the 

 show yard, owing to their inability to walk. 



An ambulance for conveying animals may be on two or 

 four wheels. It must be close to the ground, so that no 

 great height has to be ascended in order to enter; the 

 back must let down for this purpose and form a ramp. 

 The shaft or pole should be capable of being unshipped, 

 and the front let down, so that the patient can walk out. 



Fig. 215. — Ambulance for Animals for transit by road. There is a movable 

 cover in this design, also a regulating screw lever for keeping the body 

 of the cart level when travelling up or down hill (East Yorkshire and 

 Crosskill's Cart and Waggon Co., Beverley). 



Some ambulances are covered, but it makes them very 

 close ; a canvas cover on hoops could be employed in wet 

 weather, otherwise it may be made open but with high 

 sides. Two rings in front secure the head, and arrange- 

 ments can be made for slinging the animal if desired, but 

 this is very rarely necessary. The width of the ambulance 

 need be no greater than that required to take an animal 



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