invalid carriage

[taff1949]

just a thought

what today would be classed as such?, as per mway signs, surely those three wheeled blue plastic deathtraps disappeared twenty years ago,anybody today who is disabled drives a normal car albeit sometimes modified

[Ethel]

They were properly called InvaCars and were leased free for those qualifying. No passengers allowed!

The last one was made in 1977 but surprisingly they were not banned from road use until early 2003, after more than 50 years.

They were never allowed on the motorway. Today the government approved equivalent is a 304cc Canta, a four wheeled car.

[taff1949]

thankyou ethel

but its the government that uses the term invalid carriage.

[saintjohnny]

Have you never seen a Daihatsu Domino? Son of the Invalid Carriage, I'm telling you!

[Ethel]

Invalid carriage can also mean those strange scooter type things too though that trundle along pavements and roads.

InvaCar was the make.

[taff1949]

bless you my son