Abstract: A pedal-propelled tricycle includes two front wheels, a rear wheel, a pedal drive and a handle bar. The pedal drive serves to rotate the axle of one front wheel by way of a chain while a brake on the axle of the other front wheel is adapted to be operated from an actuator on the handle bar. The handle bar serves to steer the rear wheel and carries a second actuator for operating a brake on the rear wheel.

Abstract: The vehicle and drive mechanism includes a vehicle frame having at least one steerable wheel carried thereon, an axle mounted on the frame and at least one driven wheel mounted on the axle. First and second ratcheted gears drivingly disposed on the axle to produce rotary motion of the axle when each gear is rotated in a first direction and coast relative to the axle when rotated in a second, opposite direction; an oscillating handle/footrest assembly operable to provide a driving force for the driven wheel and to provide braking action on a wheel.

Abstract: A vehiclular towing hitch is described wherein its coupling to the frame or bumper of a towing vehicle may be easily connected and/or disconnected, simply by towing hitch extension and traverse. The towing hitch is characterized principally by an extendible tongue on its trailing end which is slidable, relative to draft bars and a tie bar, permitting, when extended, the angular dislocation thereof to the degree that an attached towing hitch may be readily secured to the towed trailer vehicle frame ball mount without any further movement at all of the towing vehicle relative to the towed vehicle.

Abstract: In a steering system in which both front and rear wheels are steerable, the rear road wheels are adapted to be turned in the direction opposite to the direction of turning of the front road wheels only when a steering wheel is turned with a torque or effort larger than a predetermined value.