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Originally posted by David_Hayward
They were sprighlty but horrible to drive and no where for your feet to go with that front wheel in its housing. Full marks though for a niche market, and use of GRP early on for lightweight bodies and 60 mpg.
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I'm amused you’ve not seen one before Geoff, as Gordon and David note they were very popular in the fifties and sixties over here, in fact I passed one on the M4 going west only 3 weeks ago it was making a steady 50mph while skidding around on the tram line ruts of the 30 toners’ in the slow lane.
Bloody awful things and dangerous too, the first dead body I ever came across was in one of those things one foggy night. The guy had missed a bend and climbed a tree in it.
It was common knowledge in the emergency services that if they got called to an RTA with a three wheeler involved you took a dustpan and brush for the car and a body bag for the driver !!
They are known as resin rockets over here
Nice Mack though David
there were 4 of them all ex Wiltshire council gritter ploughs in the same yard that my son David got his WK60 from.
Pete