britzka , also: britska , also: britzska

A britzka (also spelled brichka or britska) is a type of horse-drawn carriage.

So, excited, and wondering what surprise her brother could conceivably have arranged, she set off with Sam in the britzka for Trouville.

"Well, Viscount, there will be in my court-yard this evening a good travelling britzka, with four post-horses, in which one may rest as in a bed.

The britzka overhauled Sam and Sarah halfway up the hill from Trouville; Nora made the coachman pull in and let Sarah climb up; he and Sam walked beside the horses to the top.

The great railway engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel used a britzka, the 'Flying Coffin, as his travelling office whilst surveying the route of the Great Western Railway, carrying with him his drawing board, outline plans, engineering instruments, fifty of his favourite Lopez cigars and a pull-out bed.