Yes. In a world of bicycles[0] and horse carts, they realized neither are sufficient for their needs of cheaply and quickly hauling heavy loads across long distances. Instead of leveraging "the most carefully thought-out part" of using bicycles, they slapped a steam engine onto a cart and fastened it with some bicycle part, and guess what, it works, and hauls more stuff faster and cheaper than either bicycle or horse carts ever could.

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[0] - If you can even call anything built before modern petrochemical industry a "bicycle".