![]() ![]() In India, the van is one of the most common modes of transport and is often used for transporting school children to and from schools, usually when parents, especially working parents, are often too busy to pick their children up from school or when school buses are full and unable to accommodate other children. The American usage of "van" which describes a cargo box trailer or semi-trailer is used rarely, if ever, in Australia. The British term people mover is also used in Australian English to describe a passenger van. The term van can also sometimes be used interchangeably with what Australians usually call a "caravan", which in the U.S. In Australian English, the term van is commonly used to describe a minivan, a passenger minibus, or an Australian panel van as manufactured by companies such as Holden and Ford at various times.Ī full-size van used for commercial purposes is also known as a "van" in Australia however, a passenger vehicle with more than seven or eight seats is more likely to be called a "minibus". While the word now applies everywhere to boxy cargo vans, other applications are found to a greater or lesser extent in different English-speaking countries some examples follow: The word van has slightly different, but overlapping, meanings in different forms of English. ![]() A caravan, meaning one wagon, had arisen as an extension, or corruption, of a caravan meaning a convoy of multiple wagons. The words caravan with the same meaning has been used since the 1670s. The earliest records of a van as a vehicle in English are in the mid-19th century meaning a covered wagon for transporting goods the earliest reported record of such was in 1829. Van meaning a type of vehicle arose as a contraction of the word caravan. Roger Fenton's photographic van, Crimea, 1855 ![]()
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