Buzzer:
The internet is a wonderful place and just look what it has found for me Bewick’s first vehicle when he started out just before going to the paint shop, engineering at its best Dennis and from these humble beginnings the fleet grew. There will be discussion of course as to what drive train this early model prime mover had, best left to the experts on here I think, cheers Buzzer.
I go away from t’interweb for just two days and look what I’ve been missing!
Now then Buzzer, you are getting into the racey stuff!
In my childhood, (yea many moons long since), I had a pedal car of most elegant proportions, shaped as a 1920s Brooklands racing car, with the fin tail, and dummy megaphone exhaust…up front was a redundant number plate from one of the famileys defunct lorries…COA369…
I would travel everywhere at the wheel of this elegant, (and rather battered) device…what a transport of delight, as my fat little legs propelled me along the dusty pavenments… faster and , (well it seemed) faster.to the consternation of all other users.
My late Mother once told me that she always knew that I would work with lorries, because I was constantly reversing said bolide into tighter and tighter gaps…
But mine was not as racey as the picture you put up!
Come on Dennis, own up, I bet yours had chain drive…and a double chainwheel!
Buzzer:
1ROF found a shot of Bewicks fleet number 44, plus what I think is an early shot of you and your sister, need you to confirm cheers Buzzer.
Sadly, Buzzer, I never had a sister nor a car as flash as that. My pedal car was box-shaped, brown and second-hand. But I loved it and spent hours chewing up the lawn and playing skittles with our cats! And it looked a whole lot better- honest!- after I persuaded my grandmother to buy me a tin of pillar-box red paint. Some of it found it’s way onto the car, too, although most of it was splashed around the back yard, my clothing and face. My next two forms of sporty transport were firstly a black tricycle, then a red two-wheeler, again both second-hand. Thank goodness no photographic evidence survives!
Buzzer:
ROF found a shot of Bewicks fleet number 44, plus what I think is an early shot of you and your sister, need you to confirm cheers Buzzer.
Sadly, Buzzer, I never had a sister nor a car as flash as that. My pedal car was box-shaped, brown and second-hand. But I loved it and spent hours chewing up the lawn and playing skittles with our cats! And it looked a whole lot better- honest!- after I persuaded my grandmother to buy me a tin of pillar-box red paint. Some of it found it’s way onto the car, too, although most of it was splashed around the back yard, my clothing and face. My next two forms of sporty transport were firstly a black tricycle, then a red two-wheeler, again both second-hand. Thank goodness no photographic evidence survives!
As Buzzer said ROF the internet is a wonderful thing,is this you on the sporty black number?
looking at the way that mini mid lift is twisting i would say he is giving it a bootful on a right hand bend . steering wheel attendant . we would never have done anything like that , would we ?