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A Scandinavian wagon construction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

André Wegener Sleeswyk
André Wegener Sleeswyk*
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Laboratorium voor Algemene Natuurkunde, Westersingel 34, 9718 CM Groningen, Netherlands
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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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Antiquity , Volume 61 , Issue 233 , November 1987 , pp. 416 - 422
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1987

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