The Three Wheel Cart came in as many colours as there were owners, some greenm, some black, some red, and perhaps this is the only blue one I have ever seen in Sibu. To me it is the most "green vehicle" ever invented for small business. It only depends on leg muscles.
Interestingly Sibu has the largest number of three wheel carts in the 1960's for some reason. Today Vietnamese women seem to be the largest owners of this vehicle in Asia.
If you do see one in Sibu, most of them are very old already as mini vans, pick ups have been in the market for more than 20 years and have replaced them. The majority of them have been very useful in the delivery of goods from shops.
30 years ago, sundry shops provided delivery of purchases free of charge and shop assistants had to drive the three wheel cart as part of their job responsibilities. Today such provision businesses are mainly cash and carry.
However these are most most useful mobile carts for small time business men/women who need to transport a small volume of goods for example to transport cooking ports and other pots for chicken rice business.
In the history of Sibu hawker business, the most famous three wheeler's business was the one owned by the woman who sold green bean soup and home made kuih for more than three decades. She plied her sweet desserts from one road to the next in Sibu.
In the past, labourers who owned three wheelers also made themselves available at the different wharves in sibu to help travellers who needed to transport precious goods from a small piglet to some boxes of clothes and other personal belongings.
Sibu people who were born in the 50's and 60's would be filled with nostalgia when they see one solitary three wheeler cart moving in the streets of Sibu.
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