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JohnDale
Joined: 19 Mar 2008
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Location: Kelvin Valley,Scotland
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| Dobbin wrote: | I hadn't seen one of these for years and then came across one at the Glasgow Transport Museum a couple of years ago.
I also remember seeing them whilst watching Grandstand on a Saturday afternoon in the 70's as a boy when there would be around the ends of the football pitches. There was a sea of pale blue 'funny wee cars' not realising they were cars for the disabled. How things have changed. |
Hey Stuart,we must find more for you to do!!! You can't have enough if you've time to be ' living in the past ' on here,hi hi,cheers,JD.
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Ashley
Joined: 02 Jan 2008
Posts: 1426
Location: Near Stroud, Glos
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| If I remember correctly, I think Bert Greaves was handicapped and drove one himself. I'm sure I saw, might even have met him at a scramble in the sixties |
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Jeeves
Joined: 04 Oct 2010
Posts: 69
Location: Blandford, Dorset
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| I think you will you will find that it was Bert Greeves cousin Derry Preston Cobb who was disabled and drove one. In fact Bert Greeves made the original for his cousin's use. |
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Ashley
Joined: 02 Jan 2008
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Location: Near Stroud, Glos
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| Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2017 5:24 pm Post subject: |
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| Jeeves wrote: | | I think you will you will find that it was Bert Greeves cousin Derry Preston Cobb who was disabled and drove one. In fact Bert Greeves made the original for his cousin's use. |
Okay thanks. That makes sense. |
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Bill Fillip
Joined: 06 Apr 2017
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| Interesting thread. There are earlier versions of 3-wheeled invalid cars, dating from the 1920s through 1940s. A quick look through the 3-wheeler section of Motor Specifications and Prices reveals them. |
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Penman
Joined: 23 Nov 2007
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Location: Swindon, Wilts.
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Bill Fillip
Joined: 06 Apr 2017
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Thanks, those are very interesting articles. The registration number EJ 6342 definitely dates to 1939, so the author's speculation as to year of the surviving example is correct.
I couldn't find anything on Nelco in any of my books except two: Chris Rees's "Three-Wheelers A-Z" and Elvis Payne's "A-Z of Three-Wheelers". According to these authors, the electric three-wheeler was originally called the Auto-Electric Carriage in 1929, and was only rebranded to Nelco in 1947. I looked up Auto-Electric in Motor Specifications and Prices, 1948 edition, and found the full range from 1929 through 1940. It's curious that the postwar-rebranded model is not listed, even in the 1955 edition. |
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lowdrag
Joined: 10 Apr 2009
Posts: 1586
Location: Le Mans
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| Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2017 8:38 pm Post subject: |
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| About 1960 I was out on my bike and an elderly lady came carreering down the hill clearly out of control. She went through the hedge and finished in a vegetable patch, much to the annoyance of the house owner. She was unhurt but terribly confused I remember. Horrible noisy smelly things but in those days beggars couldn't be choosers. |
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