06-03-2023, 10:55 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-03-2023, 10:58 PM by Mike Watterson.)
(06-03-2023, 05:55 PM)PerdioPal Wrote: Years ago a Greeves motorcycle had a mercury switch for the brake light. I quite like the idea.
I'd never heard of Greeves, so I looked them up
"The original company produced motorcycles from 1952, funded by a contract with the Ministry of Pensions for their Invacar, a three-wheeler for disabled drivers. "
"The original company founded by Bert Greeves MBE was the Invacar company. Greeves was mowing the lawns of his home in Worcestershire when he had the idea of fitting the lawnmower engine to his disabled cousin's wheelchair and invented the Invacar. Invacar Ltd was set up and won a major contract to provide motorised three-wheeled invalid carriage vehicles to the UK Government Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greeves_(motorcycles)
They've been relaunched!
http://www.greevesmotorcyclesltd.com/
"The British Ministry of Pensions distributed Invacars free to disabled people from 1948 until the 1970s."
I'm sure I've seen one in late 1960s or maybe 1970s. I did live in UK then.
