Within a short time a number of local wagon works had turned their hand to ricksha construction. The imported Japanese models did not survive the tender care of our roads, and a number of important adaptations were made. They differed from their Japanese models by seating two people, having no mudguards, using a back-guard to prevent possible tip-backs on steep hills, being equipped with a bell and a lantern, and with a cross-bar at the front of the two handles. Most of these precautions were defined by local traffic byelaws in Durban, but they appear to have become countrywide within a very short period of time.
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