the UK GOV. used to provide three wheeled mobility aids to some disabled people (three wheels meant you paid no road tax). Some were electric while others had the equivalent to a petrol lawn mower engine, they were very fuel efficient.
No passengers were allowed. Disabled couples had to travel on their own, even on their own honeymoon. Children couldn't travel. Many of these 'Invalid trikes' caught fire.
Three wheels are easier to steer, than four (before powered steering was discovered). Unfortunately three wheels also makes them unstable. Users had no protection from cars and lorries crashing into them. However, they were very popular with many users.
Noddy' was a character in a series of children books by Enid Blyton about 'toy town', popular in the nineteen fifties. They were called 'Noddy cars' by disabled people because they were abit toy townish
Keith
Keith Armstrong
On Sat, 24 May 2003 19:59:26 -0400 , "John B. Kelly" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Hello list,
>
>In reading Campbell and Oliver's Disability Politics:
>Understanding Our Past, Changing Our Future, I learned that
>disabled British people used "noddy cars," and I wonder what
>they are? I also see that there were tricycle associations, and
>wonder who is it who were using tricycles. What kinds of
>disabilities would benefit by these tricycles? I don't know
>about any of these things being used in the US, and the
>difference is interesting.
>
>Thank you,
>
>John
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