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  • Vintage cars a luxury in British Raj: a case study of different museum and private collections 
    Ahmad, A.; Kumar, A. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    Transport is a part of our day to day lives, and in seeing cars, everyone feels a connection and pride in owning it. In India the first car ran on roads in 1897. Prior to independence in the 1940s India had no automobile ...
  • Wheel to Wheel less Locomotives—Revolutionary discoveries, heritage and its exposition in Museum: A Case Study 
    Ray, D. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    Discovery of the wheel in the late Neolithic followed by the use of spoke wheel in carts in the second half of the 4th Millennium BCE in Mesopotamia or specifically in the Sumerian Civilization initiated the journey of ...
  • Wheeled Vehicle Toys of the Indus Civilization with Special Reference to Gujarat, India 
    Vasantha, R.S. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    Terracotta toy cart frames and wheels provide indirect evidence for the origin and development of wheeled carts based transportation in the alluvial plains of Pakistan and western India around 3500 BC. Evidences from various ...
  • ‘Wheel’ – The Basis of Movement In the Context of Indian Culture, Thought and Art 
    Yegnaswamy, J. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    Wheel is defined as a tangible circular object revolves on an axis, and while fixed beneath a vehicle enables it to move over the land. The earliest wheel in history is the potter’s wheel (c. 500 BCE), and when its horizontal ...
  • When have you shed tears for them? 
    Bandyopadhyay, N. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)
    Freight and people movement have been important factors for economic systems from ancient times to the modern globalized world. Utilizing available technology and resources initially with land animalsand wind for maritime ...

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