Talk:Litter (vehicle)

Spanish link
On the language box at the left side of the page, a link to wikipedia in spanish should be added. The spanish article is "Litera (vehículo)" —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.245.8.49 (talk) 17:34, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

Sedan chair
I think sedan chair should be broken out into its own article, leaving litter (vehicle) to be about couch-type vehicles. As it is, almost the whole article is about sedan chairs. We need more pics of military/emergency litters as well as luxury litters. --Tysto 22:15, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Since there are neither clearly delimited definitions, nor any consistentcy in use of both terms, that can only be confusing. Fastifex 10:13, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Ambulance service
Can someone identify for me which Royal Infirmary this page is talking about? I've found sources variously identifying the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, Glasgow Royal Infirmary and Chester Royal Infirmary. Thanks. AlistairMcMillan 20:57, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Japan
Added a section on Japan. Not sure if Omikoshi should be here but, I had always translated that term as palanqin.--Timtak 03:54, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Litter?
Why is the palanqin called a litter over here, and in which country is it known as a litter? --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 13:43, 30 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Because litter is the word in English, from the latin for bed, whereas palanquin more generally refers to litters used in Asia, coming from the Sanskrit for bed.Gymnophoria (talk) 13:06, 27 May 2020 (UTC)

Wow, this is some heavy POV
This sounds like it was written by a "socio-anthropological studies of White Male colonialist oppression major" at UC Berkley.

Colonial practice In various colonies, litters of various types were maintained under native traditions, but often adopted by the white colonials as a new ruling and/or socio-economic elite, either for practical reasons (often comfortable modern transport was unavailable, e.g. for lack of decent roads) and/or as a status symbol, legitimizing their theft and occupation by aligning their status as worthy of transportation by palanquin to equal of native elites. During the 17-18th centuries, palanquins (see above) were very popular among European traders in Bengal, so much so that in 1758 an order was issued prohibiting their purchase by certain lower-ranking employees. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.206.142.82 (talk) 19:59, 27 June 2009 (UTC)


 * I would favor cutting out this phrase: "legitimizing their theft and occupation by aligning their status as worthy of transportation by palanquin to equal of native elites", or at least cutting out this phrase "legitimizing their theft and occupation by". Using litters to carry people who have two good legs is used as a show of status, but this phrase is unnecessary.--RLent (talk) 16:24, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

Pictures
If somebody should need pictures of several Indian litters, they might want to contact me as I do have taken a few and don't have the nerve to upload them right now. Cheers--Zenit (talk) 17:35, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

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why is there no mention that litters use to be called a go-carts/gocarts?
someone mention the gocart link to litters


 * Because it isn't true, unless you can cite evidence.Gymnophoria (talk) 13:08, 27 May 2020 (UTC)

Sanguine, West Talisman
This is given as the location in the caption of one of the photos, but I can't find a shred of evidence that it ever existed. Is it made up? Gerald0896 (talk) 19:22, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

Summary: "jiao (China)"
It's a little odd to see the Chinese entry in the list in the first paragraph twice, and so separated. The summary lists "jiao (China)" in the middle, and then "jiao [轿] (China)" at the end. Reading the section on China, it looks like there's two different types of litters, possibly with the same romanizations, but with different characters. Maybe the entries could be put next to each other in the list, and the characters for the one currently without could be added? I'm not knowledgeable in this subject at all, so I hesitate to make the edits myself. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.233.75.53 (talk) 22:09, 18 February 2017 (UTC)

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Adopted in Europe from the Americas?
Under the heading "In the west: In Europe" it states "Portuguese and Spanish navigators and colonisers encountered litters of various sorts in India, Mexico, and Peru. Such novelties, imported into Spain, spread into France and then to Britain." No source is provided for this assertion. It is certain that carried chairs were in use in England by no later than the 1540s, which is contemporaneous with the earliest explorations of Central and South America, but it could well be that correlation is not causation. History is littered with simultaneous developments of technologies whose originators had no knowledge of other developments. In the absence of any documentary evidence to support this claim, I suggest it either be stated as an hypothesis, or removed. Bricology (talk) 22:46, 15 March 2020 (UTC)

Move "Antiquity" to Europe?
I suggest moving the Antiquity section to Europe, since it refers to what we Europeans call Classical Antiquity, meaning Ancient Greek and Rome. It's rather Eurocentric having this at the top all by itself, and then Europe further down, as if these are unrelated and only Europe had antiquity.Gymnophoria (talk) 13:11, 27 May 2020 (UTC)

The title is problematic
According to the Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language (1989 ed.), a "litter" (vehicle) is either "a framework or canvas (...) for the transportation of a sick or wounded person" or "a vehicle (...) consisting of a bed or couch (...)". It does not include what is called a sedan chair, where the passenger is seated (there is a separate entry with a drawing). So either we change the title to "Litter and sedan chair" or we remove the descriptions and pictures of sedan chairs from the article if the title remains unchanged.--Lubiesque (talk) 23:00, 10 June 2020 (UTC)
 * In French, there is also a clear distinction between a "litière", from which the English "litter" derives (according to the Webster's), and a "chaise à porteurs" (a sedan chair).--Lubiesque (talk) 23:11, 10 June 2020 (UTC)