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The small size of many transport vessels available and the need to carry fodder and water on all but the shortest journeys restricted the number of horses that could be carried. Records from the 13th century show a range from 8 to 20 horses. [11] In 1303 ships transporting horses between Scotland and Ireland carried between 10 and 32 animals. [12]
Although considered more primitive than wheel-based forms of transport, on the type of territory where the travois was used (forest floors, soft soil, snow, etc.), rather than roadways, wheels would have encountered difficulties which would have made them less efficient.
The oldest wooden wheels usable for transport were found in southern Russia and dated to 3325 ± 125 BC. [1] Evidence of wheeled vehicles appears from the mid-4th millennium BC, between the North Sea and Mesopotamia [citation needed]. The earliest vehicles may have been ox carts. [2] Indian people with their bullock carts c. the early 1900s.
The logging company wangan train, called a Mary Anne, was a caravan of wagons pulled by four- or six-horse teams where roads followed the river to transport the tents, blankets, food, stoves, and tools needed by the log drivers.
One 81-foot (24.69 m) long car, built in 1929, included its own electrical generator and could carry 500,000 young fish up to 1 inch (2.54 cm) long. Fish car use declined in the 1930s as fish transportation shifted to a speedier means of transport by air, and to trucks as vehicle technology advanced and road conditions improved.
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All villagers take tea in the morning and the afternoon. Use of milk and sugar in tea preparation is profuse. Kadhi, a preparation from buttermilk, salt and spices is a very favourite item of all villagers in Dhawade. Chatani is another item devoured by the villagers. It is preparation of ground chilli powder and salt.
But the process soon reveals the apathetic attitude of politicians, bureaucrats and the press alike. A convict Vellaiswamy wanted for the murder of a local landlord turns the villagers' plight to his advantage and begins a co-operative scheme to transport water in a cart from a spring ten miles away with help of Vathiyar.