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Did you know billy carts used to be drawn by billygoats? Hence the name. Me neither.

Boy and dog in a billycart race past other children on a suburban street, Sydney, ca. 1920s.
Your typical billycart sans goat. Dog optional. Source

I was enlightened today at the National Library of Australia, at the Fit to Print photo exhibition. Verified, of course, on Wikipedia:

Young boy in a billy cart outside a Queenslander home at Indooroopilly, Brisbane ca. 1910.
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One of those words that’s so embedded in your psyche that you never think to question its origin.

See also this failed billycart prototype from said exhibition:

A boy and his dog perched on a dead shark, New South Wales c. 1930.
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