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General Category => Invalid Carriages & other related conveyances => Topic started by: Barry on May 09, 2015, 09:25:50 AM
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Well I haven't seen it before....have you?
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I wonder why they are holding those sticks out of the window?
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Perhaps they are all punters :) looks a brilliant atmosphere on these photos and clips . I suppose by this time there would have been ex WWII servicemen added to the ranks
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Perhaps they are blind??? 8)
I think they use the sticks to lance hoops during the race. Perhaps F1 could learn a few things to make it more interesting - eating bobbing apples etc on the way :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV0ztBgRlTU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACR2MWbjpcE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eYBuHDQceE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEuVytOP988
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzR2t4F9DU4
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'Terrace Straight' at Crystal Palace racing circuit?
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wouldn't it be great to have just some of this fun at The National :)
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Not seen the photo before or some of the videos, thanks for posting Barry. Definitely Crystal Palace in the photo and some of the videos. Watching them it looks like the sticks were for jabbing into a potato as you drive past, then presumably dropping the potato into a bucket.
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Did everyone spot the Scootacar. In I think the last video going around the cones ?
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Scootacar? That means this tread officially belongs in the official Unusual Microcar Discussion section - quick move it ;D
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Don't wind him up :)
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Did everyone spot the Scootacar.
Some Scootacars had a conversion to enable a disabled person to drive them.
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There was a Bond and an Isetta as well.
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Did everyone spot the Scootacar.
Some Scootacars had a conversion to enable a disabled person to drive them.
Belfast video at 6 min 30 sec ish.
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Did everyone spot the Scootacar.
Some Scootacars had a conversion to enable a disabled person to drive them.
[/quote]there was a Bond and Isetta as well .
cant imagine a amputee kick starting a Bond :o
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In the 1960s I bought a hand start lever direct from the Bond factory for my Mk C. Fitted on the floor under the dash, shown in photo, it joined the the kick starter by a long cable through the floor. Saved opening the bonnet when I sometimes stalled the little sod.
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Such a lever was original fitment on the A, B and "C Standard"; the "C Deluxe" and subsequent Marks had electric start.
I must admit I never once managed to start my A by pulling the handle, and was mighty glad when I fitted the conversion kit to electric start, that Sharps made available from '53!
Sharps did promote a version of the Minicar for use by disabled people. Perhaps the conversion depended on how the driver was disabled? Lack of an arm would not affect pedals (or kickstarting), but might require something to hold the wheel while changing gear. The lack of leg(s) would mean hand throttle and/or clutch ... leaving rather a lot for the hands to do.
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Just back from Beaulieu . Dave the first Minicar was originally intended to have the 122cc Villiers hand pull would that have been easier to start than the 197cc most upgraded to ?
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Just back from Beaulieu . Dave the first Minicar was originally intended to have the 122cc Villiers hand pull would that have been easier to start than the 197cc most upgraded to ?
True indeed - but some A, all B and all C-Standard had the hand pull and the 197! Perhaps the owners were (or became??) more muscular than I am!
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I remember a chap belonging to a model boat club I once patronised told me a tale of a Bond Minicar back in the 60's which originally had a hand start. Apparently this was defective, and the engine had to be kicked over by jumping under the bonnet. He said it conked out on him once in the middle of the Blackwall tunnel, somewhat bemusing passing drivers as they watched someone clamber into the bonnet and furiously trying to kick the engine back into life.
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You've clearly never had a Bond, Andy - perfectly normal activity, that! I can score doing so in the middle of a 3-lane roundabout, and on the M6 ... though thankfully, I'd made it over to the hard shoulder when it cut out (in really heavy rain).
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O' the joys of a Siba Dynastarter ;D
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Did everyone spot the Scootacar.
Some Scootacars had a conversion to enable a disabled person to drive them.
Yep, had one with a hand throttle. No idea if it was left on the car. If I had kept it I would have done so but not connected the wire in favour of a pedal. So it might be the car in the film. Some of the action is much the same as used to happen at Microcar events. All good fun.
We have mentioned before that it is almost certain that there was a professional conversion of Messerschmitt KR200 to modified control, despite that the official line now is, there was not. Likewise there was the Trojans made for folk who exhibited dwarfism. It might be an unpleasant truth, but the Microcar is joined at the hip with the Invalid Carriage. Only ignoring the history counters the facts.
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Thanks for posting the Video's Barry.
A few of the IC i wasn't familiar with, different shape to them, who can name them all i wonder ?