See billy cart on Wiktionary
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"text": "1954 December, Rotary Reporter: Brief Items on Club Activities around the World, The Rotarian, page 38,\nWhether you call them billy carts or soap-box racers, they're one and the same: homemade, four-wheeled, motorless racers that depend on a downhill course for their speed. […] In Coffs Harbour, Australia, for example, the Rotary Club recently held its third annual Billy Cart Derby for cars in two divisions: homemade racers and special championship cars."
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"ref": "2006, Alan Greenhalgh, Gathers No Moss, page 20:",
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"ref": "2007, Ruby Langford Ginibi, Don't Take Your Love to Town, page 98:",
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