Carts In Use

Photo of woman testing a prototype cart with a 100 kg load at Chitedze Agricultural Research Station near Lilongwe, Malawi. (1998)

This wheel-axle cart is superior (stronger, lighter, easier to build) to the bicycle-wheel cart; but the wheel-axle assemblies are unavailable in SSA.

Photo of men loading 50 kg bags of maize into prototype carts for testing at Chitedze Agricultural Research Station

These handcarts proved to be very useful, but the unavailability of the wheel-axle sets precluded their widespread adoption.

Bicycle-wheel handcarts made in June 2001 by

 Hastings K. Mkandawire
Masasa Community Day Secondary School P.O.Box 572
Mzuzu, Malawi.

The Mzuzu City Council is evaluating these carts for rubbish collection.

Mr. Mkandawire delivering school supplies using the bicycle-wheel handcart he constructed.

 

 

 

 

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