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A Scandinavian wagon construction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

André Wegener Sleeswyk*
Affiliation:
Laboratorium voor Algemene Natuurkunde, Westersingel 34, 9718 CM Groningen, Netherlands

Abstract

Some fundamental problems in the design of wheeled animal-drawn vehicles result from the inescapable mechanical forces the vehicle deals with. Here, one of those problems is explored, with ethnohistorical information from recent Europe as a starting-point.

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Article
Copyright
Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1987

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