harder watzit - beach buggy

Two more. This time a bit smaller, and with pedal assistance. I have seen people pedalling these, but a bit lazily. Perhaps that is for starting assistance? Perhaps the small ones really are gutless, and always need boosting (or they really are pedal, with just a small amount of electric boost)? Perhaps the pedalling is simply a muscle-stretch excercise to avoid deep-vein thrombosis? Or the pedal really is the emergency to get home when the battery is exhausted.

Both were taken in Hami, on Sun.25.9.11. One is set up for passengers; the other is set up as a truck.

Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor

Here are three of the smallest: pedal, designed to fit into the narrow streets of a traditional Beijing hutong.
Such zones have become quite rare, but a few are now protected. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutong

These three were taken on Wed.28.9.11: two of rubbish trucks, and one showing the delivery of beverages to cafes, and furniture.

Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor

we had one of them 3 wheeled jiga's at Sandown few years back . Dave

You mean this Mazda


it was imported from Japan by a company that import used car bits

Thats the one

sum 3 leggd beast scrounged off the net
















Cya

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Great finds. This is back to being a quiz again: identify the mystery trio.
1. Scammell
2. ?
3. NSU?
4. ?
5. Mazda

Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor

How about #4 being out of the VW . Dave

#4 is a Mitsubishi-GO 3-wheeler, produced between August 1956 and December 1958. There were 5652 of them produced .. 19 were imported to California in 1959, and this is the sole survivor of those 19 units imported.

www.cardomain.com/ride/3376402/1959-mits...mighty-max-macro-cab

I started googling, and came to this excellent site with three-wheel links:
www.3wheelers.com/linksip.html

Re 2, the number plates looked UK, but the vehicles don't.
I have memories of seeing vehicles like that in Poland.
The sign is unclear, but I suspect Germany.

The lhs vehicle could have been a Skoda: but that is a Czech manufacturer, and Skoda isn't on the list at the site above.

I couldn't verify/refute my guess re NSU for 3, as that link delivers a blank green page.

Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor