As explained in the first volume, initially motor vehicles adopted the basic configurations which had been used since millennia for animal traction vehicles. Since the fourth millennium BC there were two wheeled carts and four wheeled wagons: the former were used for lighter loads and, above all, when speed and maneuvrability were important, while the second developed only for carrying (relatively) heavy loads.
General Characteristics
Mechanical Engineering Series
2019-12-18
22 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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