Pahiya n ° 3 - old wooden cart wheel

Former wheel of the climbing climbing, North India, 19th century.

This farm cart wheel comes from rural areas in northern India. It is the evolution of the full wheel: in order to reduce its weight, openings are dug on both sides of the central axis. This wheel design strongly resembles the types of wheels used in the Sindh province, formerly region of British India, now located in Pakistan. The British Empire having started to modernize the roads in India from the half of the 19th century, the full wheels gradually gave way to the shelves, even if we still find it today in remote rural regions.

According to the hypothesis of historians on the evolution of means of transport in India, to strengthen the wheel which was to be weakening in terms of empty spaces, rays could be added (which are absent here). This wheel would therefore be the ancestor of the wheel In wood with multiple rays that still exists today.

Historians specify that this wheel invention with an axis that crosses the hub is typically Indian; Now we find anywhere else. This kind of wheel would have been developed for a long time before the 16th century, even if it is difficult to trace its evolution for lack of sources.

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Dimensions: H 56cm x W 53cm x D 13cm

Materials) : Solid wood