Category:Horse-drawn trams in Portugal

Português: Carros americanos (=bondes de tracção animal) em Portugal

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The Lisbon horse- and mule-drawn vehicles of CCFL (withdrawn in 1901 upon electrification) were popularly known as carros americanos (= American cars/vehicles) due to the fact that the most iconic and numerous model had been built by the Stephenson shops of Elizabeth, N.J.. Retrospectively, and by extension, all such vehicles (even those of other fleets, even of other cities, and makes, incl. the locally produced) are named so; that includes arguably “official” names in museum collection catalogs and “official” terminology and nomenclature in traffic regulations, museology, and technical papers on the history of transportation.

Brazilian Portuguese has a generic word, "bonde", for all kinds of trams; that word never took root in Portugal, where the term "elétrico" is exclusively used — obviously this is inadequate, as it is not extendable to steam-, horse-, or diesel-powered trams.

Then again, any modern reference to non-electric trams is the province of specialized discourse, limited to the fields of History of transportation and Museology; the man on the street (layman), currently and for the last many decades, will misunderstand "carro americano" to mean an automobile manufactured in the U.S..

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