if you go to my web site - www.outside-centre.com - and follow the link to
the 'NEW with apologies to' there are a series of new images that use the,
what used to be called, invacar in a serisof clasic paintings by edward
hopper.
If you ever get the chance to see the film El cochetito (The wheelchair - a
brilliant fiction film made in Spain circa 1959) there is a whole section of
it that covers the annual invacar racing championship in madrid, spain.
Does anyone know more about that (would appreciate info on it).
enjoy
Paul Darke
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From: "keith armstrong" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: 25 May 2003 05:02
Subject: Re: Noddy cars and tricycles
> 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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