Hobcart
{{short description|Mobility device}}
A hobcart was a type of mobility device designed in the late 1960s by Dr. Steven Perry of Albrighton, Shropshire, UK.{{cite book |title= New Scientist |date= 1975 |publisher= Reed Business Information |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=ZsTUH2tuaFQC&pg=PA11 |language=en}}
Background
Dr. Steven had two young children, both of whom had spina bifida. He considered that the wheelchairs the children were provided with were liable to set them apart from other children of their age, so set about designing a mobility device that would look like a go-kart. The end result was the hobcart, which was produced at a local borstal when it was first made.{{cn|date=August 2014}}
The idea behind this was to try to provide the inmates of the borstal the opportunity to be involved in a project which they could see was doing some good. Hobcarts were still being made into the 1980s.
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External links
- [https://scootmobielcentrum.com/ Mobility Scooters]
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=ZsTUH2tuaFQC&pg=PA11 Entry in New Scientist Magazine on Hobcarts]
- {{cite book|author=W. Richard Bowen|title=Engineering Ethics: Challenges and Opportunities|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dLD0AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA93|date=15 March 2014|isbn=978-3-319-04096-7|pages=93–94|publisher=Springer }}
- {{cite AV media |date=1971-06-12 |title=Hand Operated Hobcarts |medium=Television production |url=http://www.macearchive.org/Archive/Title/atv-today-06121971-hand-operated-hobcarts/MediaEntry/16728.html |access-date=2014-08-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140814122211/http://www.macearchive.org/Archive/Title/atv-today-06121971-hand-operated-hobcarts/MediaEntry/16728.html |archive-date=2014-08-14 |format=flv |publisher=ATV Today |via=MACE |url-status=dead }}
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