The procurement or manufacture of wheel and axle assemblies is a major problem for rural workshops involved in production of non-motorized vehicles. The scarcity of these components restricts the supply of low-cost vehicles to rural communities.

Adventures in Shroomville, a Children-Young Adults novel, has earned many accolades and is honoured to be chosen by educators as an important part of the national Newspapers in Education program building good reading habits in youth. The Hamilton Spectator is among major newspapers serialising chapters. Shroomville had been a happy little village, tucked away deep in a vast boreal forest whose bristling green canopy stretched beyond forever ...Oh, one little detail makes this village stand out. You see, these villagers are tiny -- about as tall as a man 's size 9 shoe -- and they live peacefully and happily in large, living mushroom houses. Marshall Shroom finds life here is truly happiness itself -- until his 13th year that is! Hearing a telepathic cry for help, Mars, sets out on a quest to rescue his dad and his best friend Portia from the sinister clutches of the evil Maliset ...With his emerging super powers and the help of strange new friends, will Mars, succeed in his quest in time?