text: There were not many driveable roads , however , so the Ranas ' new Rolls-Royces were brought to Kathmandu in pieces , either on frames carried by big teams of porters or on the ropeway , a lift that carried freight from Hetauda in the Terai over the Mahabharat range .
  
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  There had recently been floods which had made the roads undrivable .