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General Category => Invalid Carriages & other related conveyances => Topic started by: richard on February 02, 2014, 09:50:12 PM

Title: petrol mobility car '70's ?
Post by: richard on February 02, 2014, 09:50:12 PM

around the corner from me too

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/rare-Everest-Jennings-Safari-petrol-mobility-scooter-shed-barn-garage-find-/131104332654?pt=UK_Health_Beauty_Mobility_Disability_Medical_ET&hash=item1e866d5b6e#ht_193wt_1275

Title: Re: petrol mobility car '70's ?
Post by: richard on February 04, 2014, 09:21:15 AM

Where on earth does stuart get too when you want him  ;) I thought he might have something to say

Title: Re: petrol mobility car '70's ?
Post by: Big Al on February 04, 2014, 09:59:09 AM

He was talking to me most of yesterday. Why are you thinking of getting it for your old age?

Title: Re: petrol mobility car '70's ?
Post by: richard on February 04, 2014, 01:16:17 PM

Thanks for the thought al but I will pass on this one

Title: Re: petrol mobility car '70's ?
Post by: Big Al on February 04, 2014, 10:09:25 PM

I had a small inkling you might!

Still it would be handy down at Tesco for the guy collecting loose trolleys.

Title: Re: petrol mobility car '70's ?
Post by: richard on February 05, 2014, 12:02:57 PM

It looks like an updated Larmar

Title: Re: petrol mobility car '70's ?
Post by: Barry on February 05, 2014, 10:05:45 PM

If this machine can go over 4mph (or is it 8mph) should it not have a registration number - like the photo that I have found?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx7GZ4zYhFw    Tractor tyres?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07D3f8AcekQ

Title: Re: petrol mobility car '70's ?
Post by: Rob Dobie on February 05, 2014, 11:34:40 PM

I believe you will find that invalid scooters etc. should now be registered with DVLA and usually have a Q reg number and a free tax disc showing the reg no. A number plate is not required to be attached on the vehicle. A neighbour has a scooter so decorated. 

Title: Re: petrol mobility car '70's ?
Post by: Big Al on February 06, 2014, 10:35:22 AM

Where is the number assigned by DVLA placed then? Tattooed on the inside of the owners forearm? For you, driving fast is over!

Coming to Merseyside, this will please Richard, an art installation featuring a moving invalid carriage. Yep, your paying for this, chap. Hitchcock strikes again!

Title: Re: petrol mobility car '70's ?
Post by: Rob Dobie on February 06, 2014, 12:32:27 PM

Quote from: Big Al on February 06, 2014, 10:35:22 AM

Where is the number assigned by DVLA placed then?

 As stated, it's on the "tax disc"

Title: Re: petrol mobility car '70's ?
Post by: richard on February 06, 2014, 12:45:49 PM

So these things have been spotted at Microcar rallies , see Barrys pic , perhaps I should buy this one and get in on the ground floor  ;)

Title: Re: petrol mobility car '70's ?
Post by: Stuart Cyphus on February 06, 2014, 01:41:10 PM

Quote from: richard on February 06, 2014, 12:45:49 PM

So these things have been spotted at Microcar rallies , see Barrys pic , perhaps I should buy this one and get in on the ground floor  ;)

 Nick Devonport was the first to show one of these, umpteen years ago, and Ian Hellings has one in his collection too. For those wanting to know more about them, I refer the reader to Rum Car News issue 86 of Autumn 2005, where I've already sprouted chapter & verse about them.

Title: Re: petrol mobility car '70's ?
Post by: Stuart Cyphus on February 06, 2014, 01:50:07 PM

Quote from: Big Al on February 06, 2014, 10:35:22 AM

Coming to Merseyside, this will please Richard, an art installation featuring a moving invalid carriage. Yep, your paying for this, chap.

 And guess what, this rumour is entirely TRUE as some of the Wolverhampton cars get ready to depart to the artist and another one to elsewhere. Two others are also spoken for, so at this rate there'll only be a couple left once the final details have been sorted & the transporters have arrived. Not a bad little clearance considering the sheer quantity involved.  :)

Title: Re: petrol mobility car '70's ?
Post by: richard on February 06, 2014, 04:19:02 PM

No need for such devices up here we just take our medication regularly . Medicinal Compound - efficatious in every way- under 50 ? youtube / Google it   ;)

Title: Re: petrol mobility car '70's ?
Post by: Bob Purton on February 06, 2014, 04:38:19 PM

Are you typing that message from the Julius Caesar ward?

Title: Re: petrol mobility car '70's ?
Post by: Stuart Cyphus on February 06, 2014, 04:49:51 PM

 Ah, so that's who you go to see on these "business trips" is it?  Lilly the Pink...  ;)

Title: Re: petrol mobility car '70's ?
Post by: Big Al on February 06, 2014, 06:31:25 PM

John Gorman, a member of Scaffold, key member of TISWAS bringing the more adult and satirical humour in. Not sure what he is doing now but reputed to have retired to France. I thank you very very much.

Not sure what is the motivation behind the artwork. Very keen on keeping Hillsborough ongoing upp there. As long as its not a kop out. Celebration of Speke to the British Automobile Industry? What ever, I was pleased to lubricate a deal on behalf of buddies.

Title: Re: petrol mobility car '70's ?
Post by: richard on February 06, 2014, 08:56:19 PM

the jaguar plant - ex-Ford - at Speke just keeps going from strength to strength , now working 24 hours in 3 shifts and VERY productive . As a Ford factoryin the 70's it was semi permanent on strike - or seemed to be anyway .
mr. Gorman very art farty always seemed to be on Granada tv ( hosted by Stuart Hall ) in the 70's 80's but a bit quiet nowadays perhaps retired as you say . The Scaffold were quite talented in their seperate fields even Paul McCartneys brother Mike ( stage name Mike McGear )
But we digress , no bad thing you might say  ..........