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Terry, I thought your shooting brake question was going to be easy - an outdated name for a station wagon - but I reckoned without Mercedes, who make a device which looks remarkably like a Holden Sportswagon, and is called "Shooting Brake" I just can't see the pukka pommy gentry filling it with gun racks, gun dogs, shotguns and a sweaty Tweed clad shooting party. Never underestimate the power of the Sales people to redefine things.
Where did the station come into it with the station wagon, good buddy.
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Good question castellan.
I always believed that it was an Aussie term as in sheep 'station', being a large farm.
If you read the dreaded Wikipedia, it (& several other sources) defines a Station Wagon as a wagon which was used to pick up goods from the railway station for transport back to the farm. Ford also had a model badged Ranch Wagon.
Wagon really is a Yankee term, but of course we had the Station Sedan !!
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That's near enough too a sheep station for me.
My dad had a place he called the ranch and another places called, out at the farm or the property's = farms.
He did not work at the ranch as that was the home base, no cattle their.
I have heard Yanks call their home a cattle Ranch ? now if their is no cattle it would have to be just a ranch.
A station being a place with homes for other workers, as they are stationed their.
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The word "Ranch" is from the Mexican Spanish word "rancho", so it probably has its origins in the South West of the US.
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