Hoverbat For £800
A new version of Christopher Cockerell’s Hovercraft that brings air cushion travel within the price bracket of an ordinary family car is being developed by a firm in Lincolnshire which has made a two-seater model of what they call the Hoverbat. It sells complete for less than £BOO, reported Peter Moss in the 8.8. C. World Service programme “New Ideas”, “but they also supply kits for making anything from a single-seater up to the twoseater, which has a small two-stroke motorcycle engine and can skim along at up to 60 miles an hour. If you buy it in the kit form you get all the components, and -save
yourself about £2OO by bolting them together instead of buying the machine completely assembled. “But the single-seater kit, which costs only £65, is for the engineering enthusiast, who wants to fit his own engine and controls. It is, in fact, just a basic kit. You have to provide many of your own components, although propellers and fans are quite easily obtainable. In between these two extremes the firm supply other kits to suit customers with varying degrees of mechanical skill."
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31676, 11 May 1968, Page 5
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191Hoverbat For £800 Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31676, 11 May 1968, Page 5
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