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A manually-powered multi-article utility carrier has a mobile body defined by separate spaced apart upright front and rear main support structures being rigidly interconnected by a load-supporting bottom platform structure, and separate auxiliary support structures movably interfaced telescopically

A manually-powered multi-article utility carrier has a mobile body defined by separate spaced apart upright front and rear main support structures being rigidly interconnected by a load-supporting bottom platform structure, and separate auxiliary support structures movably interfaced telescopically with the main support structures. The main support structures, bottom platform structure and auxiliary support structures together define the capacity of a variable-volume multi-article holding cavity of the carrier body. Locking mechanisms releasably couple the respective support structures together for locking the auxiliary structures in one of a series of extended longitudinal positions relative to the main structures for varying the volume of the carrier body holding cavity. The carrier body has a generally upright orientation when in a freestanding resting position and can be angularly tilted to assume a transport orientation wherein it rests on a pair of ski-like skids attached thereto. A storage compartment is attached to the carrier body so as to underlie the bottom platform structure, and a pair of ground wheels are rotatably mounted at opposite sides of the compartment.

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A multi-article utility carrier, comprising: (a) a carrier body including a load-supporting bottom platform structure and a pair of front and rear main support structures, said bottom platform having front and rear edges and opposite side edges extending between and interconnecting said front and re

A multi-article utility carrier, comprising: (a) a carrier body including a load-supporting bottom platform structure and a pair of front and rear main support structures, said bottom platform having front and rear edges and opposite side edges extending between and interconnecting said front and rear edges and defining a plurality of corners on said bottom platform structure, said front and rear main support structures being rigidly connected to and extending upright from said bottom platform structure at said respective front and rear edges thereof such that said upright front and rear main support structures are separate and spaced from one another by said opposite side edges of said bottom platform structure, each of said front and rear main support structures including a pair of generally parallel hollow main tubular members being open at their upper ends and disposed at said respective corners of said bottom platform structure; (b) a storage compartment attached to said carrier body and underlying said bottom platform structure thereof, said storage compartment being an enclosure defined by a plurality of walls interconnected to one another and to said bottom platform structure and said main tubular members of said front and rear main support structures of said carrier body; (c) a pair of ground-engaging wheels rotatably mounted to the exterior of a pair of said walls of said storage compartment located at opposite sides of said carrier body and said compartment; (d) a pair of separate auxiliary support structures, each of said auxiliary support structures including a pair of generally hollow auxiliary tubular members having lower ends fitted within said open upper ends of said main tubular members and thereby mounting said auxiliary tubular members of each of said auxiliary support structures in sliding telescopic relation with said respective main tubular members of each of said respective main support structures for longitudinal movement therein, said separate auxiliary support structures together with said main support structures defining the capacity of an multi-article holding cavity of said body which is open and unobstructed above said opposite side edges of said bottom platform structure; and (e) means coupled with said main and auxiliary support structures for locking said auxiliary structures in any one of a series of extended longitudinal positions relative to said main structures for varying the capacity of said holding cavity of said body.