SCOOTERS FOR ALL

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8178, 3 May 1919, Page 2 (Supplement)

SCOOTERS FOR ALL

By Paul Brewsher. The use as a serious method of travel of the motor-scooter hy certain extremely 'busy people gives a hint of the birth of an entirely new era in locomotion. Scooter-riding is only a stage removed from walking, vet it is very much quicker and more useful. The lalbour of “ push cycling" is dispensed with. The inconvenience of a motor-cycle is avoided. The device is com pace and simple —the inachine can be put for a few minutes into a front ball or a passage. It can lie set going at a moment’s notice.

The scooter should be of great use in largo cities where many journeys have to he made which are a little too long for walking and yet are hardly worth the trouble and the expense of a motorcar or the lush and battle for an omnibus rr tube Tt is not expensive to 'buy. It is not difficult to manipulate. The rider has oil the pleasure of controlling a piece of mechanism which as to mankind an unending jov.

Eventually lb may become so popular that special “sccoter-ways" will be set apart on either side of the road and through the main parks and pleasure gardens. Accommodation will be mate for scooters in pub’ic buildings. They will become as familiar ;t. feature on the load as a motor-cycle.

If some firm wth the broad policy of Air. Henry Ford takes up the idea, manuf ic times them by the thousand, and sells them cheaply, they will probably become- very widely used indeed. Imagine the advantage they would have ■lieen during the recent Underground strikes! Imagine the Ixmefit they would In to-day during the crowded hours when it is almost impossible to get a tube, omnhus, or a taxicab. London, at any rate, wi'l welcome them. People are forgetting more and More how to walk. “Rush” is the motto of to-dav. We stand up and walk to the doors of a train loner, before it has reached the station. We run up the moving omnibus. If only to avoid walking clown one street we 'will buy a motor-scocter to feel that we are really on the move.