When were rickshaws eliminated?

1946.

In 1946, the Nationalist Government planned to completely ban rickshaws in Shanghai within 3 to 10 years on the grounds that "commercial rickshaws are like oxen and horses and are against humanity."

The government's reforms and bans cannot eliminate the rickshaws that still have value. What really drives them to decline is actually a new technological product-the tricycle.

The tricycle is an original creation of the Chinese people. It combines a bicycle and a rickshaw into one, and is named after it has three wheels.

Compared with rickshaws, tricycles are simpler, more comfortable to carry passengers, and have lower technical requirements. They are also in line with the "humanitarianism" advocated by the government. On the eve of liberation, there were less than 4,000 rickshaws left, and the once-popular scene of rickshaws all over Shanghai was no longer there.

Origin:

The predecessor of the rickshaw was called "Toyo Car", also known as rickshaw, which was created around 1870. In the 12th year of Tongzhi (1873), Frenchman Mira saw the convenience of rickshaws and planned to purchase them from Japan. He submitted a plan to the French Concession Public Affairs Bureau, requesting "the establishment of hand-pulled trolley passenger transport service agencies in the two concessions" and Apply for a ten-year patent operation.

Later, after negotiation between the Public Affairs Bureau of the French Concession and the Industry Bureau of the French Concession, it was agreed that the two bureaus would issue rickshaw licenses and approve the journey price. In January of the following year, rickshaws were imported from Japan to Shanghai. Because it was imported from Japan, people in Shanghai called it Oriental car at that time.