Not up to racing car standard perhaps but an amateur designer with novel ideas is dubbing contractor Tom Hancock’s of High Wycombe Buckinghamshire he invented these motorized rollerskates during the last war has suggested transporter Footwear he soldiers he settled for using them simply to give his daughter a left to wear
They’re operated these road-going skates by a lawnmower engine with a belt drive to the rear wheels and there’s no get out and get under problems with this beat the traffic idea if anything goes wrong tom simply gets off and licks the whole thing onto our back the engine is entirely LED control in
Theory clutch brake and throttle are all works by leaning forwards or backwards it sounds easy but so far Tom the inventor is the only one who’s managed to stay on but you must admit the skates are cheap to run a hundred and sixty miles to the gallon is their average
Which doesn’t make big profits for the local garage we feel that the skates are practical only for peacetime use it’s well known that armies march on their stomachs gun wag that went out mr. Hancock
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