Rickshaw is a means to transport people and / or goods in small quantities,
using a basic bike that is modified into a three-wheeled vehicles equipped with
passenger cabin. Rickshaw
is planned to carry 2 passengers, but are sometimes used to transport up to 4
people. Rickshaw
then dipermodernisasi equipped with motor drive, a motorized rickshaw.
It turned out that the origins of the Japanese rickshaw. The emergence of a vehicle that is pulled by human power, for the first time just a coincidence. In 1869, an American man who served as assistant at the U.S. Embassy in Japan, a walk to enjoy the views of Yokohama City. At one point he thinks, how his wife's leg disability can come take a walk?. Certainly needed a vehicle. Vehicle, he thought, no horse-drawn because only one passenger only. Then he started drawing a small carriage without a roof over a piece of paper. The draft he sent to his friend, Frank Pollay. Pollay Goble make it fit the design and bring it to a blacksmith named Obadiah Wheeler. Be rickshaw.
Japanese people who see a personal vehicle that pulled the man, named "Jinrikisha" (人力车, 人 jin = people, 力 riki = power, 车 sha = vehicle), which means "human power vehicles." Towing jinrikisha usually paid every week. Long, jinrikisha attract Japanese society, especially the nobility. In the 1950's this man-drawn rickshaws disappeared from the Earth Japan.
In
the 1800s, jinrikisha finally reached the ears of the people in China. Until
a short time, jinrikisha known as the nobility of private vehicles and public
transport. This vehicle
(in English) was named rickshaw. While penghelanya called Hiki. But,
after a long time observers of humanity in China Hiki a pity to see the horse
work like that. So
starting 1870, rickshaws are prohibited from operating across the streets of
our country. While
jinrikisha in Japan before it has been banned
In the 1930's developed in India, Pakistan and the early 1940s rickshaw came to prominence in Singapore, Indonesia and other Southeast Asia countries. In contrast to jinrikisha and a two-wheeled rickshaw with a ban dead, rickshaw which was developed in Southeast Asia are more modern. Three wheels and tires, wind, drove dikayuh with both feet. Pedicab is growing quickly because of the perceived benefits for the wealthy after that.
It turned out that the origins of the Japanese rickshaw. The emergence of a vehicle that is pulled by human power, for the first time just a coincidence. In 1869, an American man who served as assistant at the U.S. Embassy in Japan, a walk to enjoy the views of Yokohama City. At one point he thinks, how his wife's leg disability can come take a walk?. Certainly needed a vehicle. Vehicle, he thought, no horse-drawn because only one passenger only. Then he started drawing a small carriage without a roof over a piece of paper. The draft he sent to his friend, Frank Pollay. Pollay Goble make it fit the design and bring it to a blacksmith named Obadiah Wheeler. Be rickshaw.
Japanese people who see a personal vehicle that pulled the man, named "Jinrikisha" (人力车, 人 jin = people, 力 riki = power, 车 sha = vehicle), which means "human power vehicles." Towing jinrikisha usually paid every week. Long, jinrikisha attract Japanese society, especially the nobility. In the 1950's this man-drawn rickshaws disappeared from the Earth Japan.
In
the 1800s, jinrikisha finally reached the ears of the people in China. Until
a short time, jinrikisha known as the nobility of private vehicles and public
transport. This vehicle
(in English) was named rickshaw. While penghelanya called Hiki. But,
after a long time observers of humanity in China Hiki a pity to see the horse
work like that. So
starting 1870, rickshaws are prohibited from operating across the streets of
our country. While
jinrikisha in Japan before it has been bannedIn the 1930's developed in India, Pakistan and the early 1940s rickshaw came to prominence in Singapore, Indonesia and other Southeast Asia countries. In contrast to jinrikisha and a two-wheeled rickshaw with a ban dead, rickshaw which was developed in Southeast Asia are more modern. Three wheels and tires, wind, drove dikayuh with both feet. Pedicab is growing quickly because of the perceived benefits for the wealthy after that.
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