The Scootacar- A Well Hidden Secret
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I think 'Dr Who' bought up the entire stock of theScootacars from HEC , stuck plumber's 'plungers'(can I say that?) on them, and used em as Daleks!Exterminate! Hee Hee!In a previous posting about things you don't see these days,I mentioned the Isetta and that if you drove into your garage toonear to the back wall, you couldn't open the front-opening door!They didn't have a reverse gear so you had to shout for helpto push you backwards! Lemme out!A lot of those blue invalid cars were made by a firm called Tippen Delta! (Tippin over?), You'd see them all lined up along thetouchlines at footy matches. Grandstand view for the folksdriving them!
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arry awk wrote: I think 'Dr Who' bought up the entire stock of theScootacars from HEC , stuck plumber's 'plungers'(can I say that?) on them, and used em as Daleks!Exterminate! Hee Hee!In a previous posting about things you don't see these days,I mentioned the Isetta and that if you drove into your garage toonear to the back wall, you couldn't open the front-opening door!They didn't have a reverse gear so you had to shout for helpto push you backwards! Lemme out!A lot of those blue invalid cars were made by a firm called Tippen Delta! (Tippin over?), You'd see them all lined up along thetouchlines at footy matches. Grandstand view for the folksdriving them! sorry arry didn't see your isetta post.those blue invalid cars were appaling not just because they were dangerous either.
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The other thing about 3 wheelers apart from their tendency to fall over, was the fact that the middle wheel tended to act like a stylus and ransmit all the vibration from bumps in the road back into the car!I remember getting a lift to work in York in the 1980's from a colleague with a Reliant Robin . After bashing my head a few times bouncing on the back seat i gave up!
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original picture printed by The Rodley Automobile Co., Ltd., 1954Does anyone have a guess as to where that company might have been in Rodley? I also hear we had a jam factory at one time
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D2G wrote: original picture printed by The Rodley Automobile Co., Ltd., 1954Does anyone have a guess as to where that company might have been in Rodley? I also hear we had a jam factory at one time There was a jam manufacturer in Leeds called Moorhouses, but I didin't think it was in Rodley.I may be wrong but I think the owner's (of the jam factory) son was killed in the Cyprus troubles in the fifties and there was a big funeral in Leeds for him.
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Trojan wrote: D2G wrote: original picture printed by The Rodley Automobile Co., Ltd., 1954Does anyone have a guess as to where that company might have been in Rodley? I also hear we had a jam factory at one time There was a jam manufacturer in Leeds called Moorhouses, but I didin't think it was in Rodley.I may be wrong but I think the owner's (of the jam factory) son was killed in the Cyprus troubles in the fifties and there was a big funeral in Leeds for him. Moorhouses jam factory was in Old Lane, Beeston. It's the site of a Netto discount supermarket now.The Moorhouses son was indeed killed in Cyprus on 02/08/1956
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