You can't yank it til I've had my say! (Looks round for Frankie Howerd...)
This Batricar is indeed "only" 1970s or thereabouts. It's a Mk 1 and therefore will date from somewhere between 1976 & 1982. If we knew the chassis number I could give the exact year....
Batricar Ltd was originally founded as Braune Batric Ltd of Stroud, Gloucestershire in the mid 1960s and produced industrial handling appliances. In 1970 Braune Batric Ltd branched out into mobility aids following the introduction of the 1970 Chronic Sick and disabled persons Act, this act altering legislation to permit electric powered 4mph chairs or "buggies" to proceed along the pavement instead of solely the road has had been the case for
any powered chair or buggy prior to 1970. Braune's 1970 effort was the Braune Batric Chair, a 3-wheeled powered "wheelchair". This was followed in 1976 by the Braune "Batricar", the first real uk "mobility scooter" as we recognise them today. From around 1983 Braune Batric Ltd changed their name to "Batricar Ltd" and the rest of the history is a subject for another day.
Incidental, whilst we're talking mobility scooters, I remind everyone that my 1963 Wrigley Electric Chair is still the UK's oldest known outdoor "powered chair, mobility, for the use of" and hence is the Grandad of what would lead on to the 1970 Act mentioned above, and the Batricar a few years later. I draw intrested parties attention to my attached article on the Prehistory of the Mobility Scooter, from an early
Conveyancer magazine...