Scooting Around

Not really a scooter person, but you have to admire this early model Lambretta with it's PAV trailer.

(Spotted at AUOB Edinburgh)

Leopard Print

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Weekend Roundup

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Waiting

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Bubblecar Museum

Messerschmidt KR200 (Germany)

A short while ago, I and a couple of others made the trip down to Lincolnshire for the East EuropeanMotorcycle Rally. On the Saturday afternoon we took a short trip out to the Boston Bubblecar Museum for a look around.

Bond Minicars Mks. B, C & F (UK)

Piaggio Ape van (Italy)

This is a small friendly museum on two floors with a café and gift shop attached, staffed by volunteers who, we were informed, also made the cakes and scones which we sampled after our wander around. 

Cafe & Giftshop

Inter Torpedo Autoscooter (France)

As well as a host of micro-cars, small capacity scooters, and motorcycles they also have loads of motoring memorabilia and the glass cases mounted on the walls hold collections of old toys, cameras, board games and the like.

Garage forecourt with Lambretta & Watsonian Bambini sidecar

Bond Bug memorabilia

There were even a couple of closet sized rooms laid out as a living-room and a kitchen from the period between the wars. 

The kitchen looked scarily like the one in the first house I bought, even to some of the antiquated furnishings.

Heinkel Trojan (Germany) & Berkeley B105 (UK)

While most of the exhibits are lined up as you would expect, a number of them had been included in period tableaus, which was a nice touch.

Bond Mk. C & Nutshell folding caravan (UK)

There was also an area which held vehicles yet to be restored, some of which were in a sorry state indeed.

The Scrapyard

Overall, it was a pleasant way to spend an hour or so and, if you're ever in the vicinity, I'd heartily recommend you make the effort to pay it a visit. 

Heinkel Tourist & Durkopp Diana (Germany), Douglas Vespa & Bond P4 (UK)

Trailer Queen

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Carabineros of Chile

Mickey

(Via: Glasgow Evening Times archive 1981)

Scooting Around

This photograph entitled Glasgow Police Riding School was taken on 30th November 1956, at a time when the motor scooter was fast becoming one of the most popular forms of transport. Private ownership of cars at the time was at an extremely low level, and the scooter, along with inexpensive motorcycles such as BSA Bantams, provided a welcome alternative to the pedal cycle and public transport. 

Scooters were tried out by many police forces, usually to be rejected quite rapidly in favour of full-blown motorbikes or continued reliance on the good old pedal cycle, but it’s evident that Glasgow Police were more enthusiastic than some when it came to the scooter. The machines being ridden in this photo are all 125cc Vespas, with at least three of them displaying L-plates; presumably these learner-drivers were not allowed out on patrol before passing their motorcycle test.


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