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#scooters

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Hannah Howe

Friday 8 March 1963

A woman can now know if she is pregnant two hours after taking a new test. This while-you-wait test costs £2 2s at the Family Centre run by the London Foundation for Marriage Education.

After twelve hours, the Duchess of Argyll completed her evidence in the divorce action brought by the Duke. The Duchess is accused of multiple acts of adultery. The hearing continues today.

Scooter advertisement
#SocialHistory#History#Scooters
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Baxter

For those wondering how my charity scooter ride went - here's my scooter and my travelling buddy, Max, across the finish line in Welly - over $2000 raised. THANK YOU GREATLY to my sponsors, and to those who provided direct support with transport, accommodation, and hospitality - it wouldn't have been possible without you. Back home and recovering for the last couple of days, many photos to come 😁🤣
#scooter #scooters

Photo of Baxter's scooter amongst other scooters across the Napier Scooter Challenge finish line in Wellington.
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Hannah Howe

Carnaby Street (and environs), 1966

📸 Scooters lining Carnaby Street, May 1966

5,6,7 Village Store (John Stephen Organisation) - ladies’ wear
9 John Stephen Customer Built Clothes for Men - bespoke tailors
22 Cranks Salad Table - vegetarian health food restaurant
23 Donis - male clothes
24 Cranks Shop - vegetarian health foods
32 Rene - florist
38 Male West One - (John Stephen Organisation) - male clothes

Scooters in Carnaby Street
#SocialHistory#History#Fashion
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JdeBP

@cstross

The rozzers's Twitter post is cropped there.

From hunting up the original image, it's visibly not even a motorized scooter. There's no transmission nor motor connected to either axle of the scooter, nor any transmission connected to the axles of the exercise machine.

It's a plain human-propelled ("kick"/"push") scooter with an exercise machine on top. I'm guessing that it's just for sitting on whilst coasting.

#UKLaw #HighwayCode #scooters @jbenjamint

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Kagan MacTane (he/him)

It's really annoying that the word "scooter" can mean any of these things. I wish we'd start disambiguating them verbally. I wish I could use different words for each of them when writing, so my readers wouldn't be confused what type of vehicle one of my characters is riding.

Specifically, he's riding type 3 (the angular brown one), and I really don't want people thinking it's type 1 (the black, stick-like thing that says "Ducati" on the front).

A Ducati electric scooter. It's a flat platform slung between two small wheels at the front and back, with a shaft sticking up in front that has a handlebar on it for steering. If not for that handlebar shaft, it'd basically be a motorized skateboard.
A Vespa motor scooter. It's a pretty classic/standard Vespa design, with a seat for the rider (or conceivably two riders) on top of the engine that sits above the rear wheel, and handlebars surmounting a front cowling that rises above the front wheel. The styling is curvy and Mod-ish. This one is light blue.
A fairly large gas-powered scooter. It's essentially a small motorcycle, except that there's a little room for the rider's feet between the seat and front wheel, instead of the rider having to straddle it and put their feet on side pegs near the exhaust pipes. This one is somewhat angular in its styling, and much of its body is brown, with some greyish-silvery parts and black parts for contrast.
#writing#English#scooters
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Roasting House Coffee

@andycarolan Electric #Scooters would be a game changer.

If we as a business could be insured to ride them then our other "local" delivery are #Nottingham would allow a train journey, scoot around, maybe a tram, back on the train.

But we use the car because that's what we're allowed to do. That's what is built for. Car is an ULEV but it wouldn't be as good as public transport & scoot.

Getting a #cargobike on the train isn't a guarantee so not a chance worth taking. Time is money after all.

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