Low-Cost Load-Carrying Devices: The Design and Manufacture of Some Basic Means of Transport

The major transport task facing most poor people is to move relatively small loads over short distances, usually off-road. This book describes basic transport technologies such as shoulder poles and back-frames, wheelbarrows and handcarts, carriers and panniers for bicycles, and load-carrying panniers for animals and animal-drawn sledges.

List of contents

Part 1 Introduction: background; scope and contents; introduction of new or improved transport technologies; how to use this book; notes on presentation and units. Part 2 Assessment of basic transport technology options: types of technologies; characteristics of basic transport technologiesl selection guide. Part 3 Carrying aids: vack-mounted basket; shoulder pole; back-mounted carrying frames. Part 4 Hand-propelled wheeled vehicles: wheelbarrows; handcarts. Part 5 Bicycle mounted carrying devices: rear carrier; panniers; front carrier; load-carrying on the bicycle cross-bar. Part 6 Low-cost animal transport: animal-mounted panniers; animal-drawn sledges.

Product details

• Authors: Ron Dennis, Roy Dennis, Alan Smith, Prof. Alan Smith
• Publisher: Practical Action Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2022
• EAN: 9781853392658
• ISBN: 978-1-85339-265-8
• No. of pages: 188
• Dimensions: 207 mm x 297 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 551 g
• Series: Design and Manufacture of Some; Design and Manufacture of Some
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education