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[zeev]

Пожалуйста помогите первести: leiter wagon

Straight in front of us and not far off, in fact so near that I wondered
we had not noticed before, came a group of mounted men hurrying along.
In the midst of them was a cart, a long leiter wagon which swept
from side to side, like a dog's tail wagging, with each stern
inequality of the road.

Большое спасибо

[tumanov]

Bram Stoker
Dracula
....
Now and again we passed a leiter-wagon—the ordinary peasants’s cart—with its long, snakelike vertebra, calculated to suit the inequalities of the road. On this were sure to be seated quite a group of homecoming peasants, the Cszeks with their white, and the Slovaks with their coloured sheepskins, the latter carrying lance-fashion their long staves, with axe at end. ...

[Igor Kravchenko-Berezhnoy]

Вот, здесь, по-моему, всё сказано:

Dracula by Bram Stoker, The complete Gothic Vampire Novel Chapter I
Dracula by Bram Stoker, The complete text to the Gothic Vampire Novel ... Now and again we passed a leiter-wagon- the ordinary peasant's cart- with its ...www.dagonbytes.com/vampires/dracula/brom/index.html

[tumanov]

"One question--what does the term 'leiter wagon' mean?"

Stoker's Notes show that he found the term in A. F. Crosse's book "Round About the Carpathians" (1879). Crosse notes that it is "a vehicle which has no counterpart in England ... This long cart is, it is needless to say, without springs; but it has the faculty of accommodating itself to the inequalities of the road in a marvelous manner. It has, moreover, a snake-like vertebrae." I included a photo of one in my DLB volume on "Dracula" - I'll see if I can find an image to send along to Bryan.