BRITISH “PEOPLE’S CAR”

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26266, 10 November 1950, Page 9

BRITISH “PEOPLE’S CAR”

Britain's “people's car” is an exhibit at the Canterbury Royal Centennial bhow, but only those *with sterling funds can arrange to purchase it, for the exhibitor has been unable to obtain a licence to import the cars. Built of aluminium alloy, the car has only three wheels, two at the rear, and one in front. The engine is in the front, and at the rear there is plenty of room for luggage. The car is very low and has no doors, the driver and passengers merely step in —and has plenty of room for two persons in the seat, and could take three average-sized people with comfort. With a cruising speed of 35 to 40 miles an hour and a maximum speed of 50 miles an hour, the car can be run, it is claimed, for two miles and a half for one penny. The owner said yesterday that the cars were being turned out in England at the rate of 100 a month. He had had his car for a fortnight, and had done 1100 miles, including the trip over the hill from Lytteltcn yesterday morning, without any trouble except a puncture. A puncture presents no problems. The complete car weighs only 3401 b, and a woman can lift rhe back of the ear sufficiently high with one hand to allow a strip of metal to be used as a jack, leaving free the wheel of slightly more than one foot in diameter.