Peninsular Naps Wagons!

[DecemDave]

Actually even more Duh!  I did order some, in a supplementary because Leon kept adding more and yet more goodies after my first pledge. 

[John Cook]

A quick look on-line seems to suggest that the design of waggons and carts hasn't changed fundamentally since medieval times, at least.  At some stage there's a change from solid to spoked wheels, and the latter seem to become lighter and with more spokes, but other than that, not much that I can see.   

[Orcs]

A quick look on-line seems to suggest that the design of waggons and carts hasn't changed fundamentally since medieval times, at least.  At some stage there's a change from solid to spoked wheels, and the latter seem to become lighter and with more spokes, but other than that, not much that I can see.   

Then you get a change from Spoked wooden wheels with Iron shodding to rubber shodding , then the pnuematic tyre.

When I went to Roumania in 2001 they were using typical russian style panje wagons just with normal steel wheels and a pneumatic tyre 

- Something for the post war range perhaps,

[Dragoon]

55BC Brit chariots had spoked wheels because it was easier to get a round wheel with strength  as speed and not load was needed.
Solid wheels were easy to make by a farmer where a wheel write cost silver. Wether wheels of any construction were shod I don't know.
This would apply for the next 1900 years, depending on where you lived but time wise wasn't relevant it wat what you wanted to pay and if you employed a smith.
Iron was a problem in the Britain it was usually recycled from other items knives and Swords being needed in post Roman times until after the ECW.
I doubt it was swords into ploughshares even then.