Gardener (transport)


The gardener is a kind of promising transport vehicle, open to the sides.

The term "gardener" in the field of transport was coined to define wagons or wagons, which were mostly agricultural, open on their sides and provided with a central load bearing which, starting from the driver's back, divides the plane of load, providing structural support for a balcony shelf, usable as a double bench seat or as a shelving for goods. This sort of outfit was generally used by "gardeners", as they were once called ortolani, to pick up grooming products, being able to place them in baskets or crates placed on the floor or on the shelves and, therefore, transport the products directly to the citizen markets.

From the second half of the nineteenth century, by extension, the term "gardener" was used to define the railroad and tramway cars open sideways and equipped with a balcony deck.

In the Second World War, FIAT adopted the name "Gardener" to name commercially promiscuous versions of "Topolino" and "500" models, making the term synonymous with the well-known "Giardinetta". Voices correlateemodify wikitesto

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