It was an open cart with two wooden-spoked, iron-rimmed wheels, not the old automobile tires that you used to see on a common utility wagon.

NPR: Excerpt: 'World Made By Hand'

You could still find rubber tires here and there, but you couldn't get patch kits or the kinds of adhesives that would stand up to a repair job anymore, so we had no choice but to go back to wooden wheels with iron rims.

NPR: Excerpt: 'World Made By Hand'

In Scranton, a sooty mining town, she was miserable when the locomotives were fitted with iron skirts that hid how the wheels and pistons moved.

ECONOMIST: Jane Jacobs

He looked through the kitchen window, but the yard was empty and all he could see, among the thistles and scrap iron, was a dilapidated cart with two rusty wheels.

NEWYORKER: Waiting

The rusty iron chain that double-locked the cart to the front wheels of the cycle began to squeal as he rode.

NEWYORKER: The Elephant