Legless Man Tours in Odd Trailer (Nov, 1937)
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Source: Popular Science ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Nov, 1937
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Source: Popular Science ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Nov, 1937
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Legless Man Tours in Odd Trailer
Traveling alone in a unique, powered trailer, Freddie Carson, a legless newsboy of Santa Ana, Calif., is making a 2,500-mile-trip across the continent to Florida. Hitched behind a three-wheel invalid chair, as shown in the photograph, the trailer is equipped with a one-horsepower motor that provides a top speed of thirty miles an hour. Remote-control levers operate the engine from the seat of the chair. Although the motorized trailer is only seven feet long and four feet wide, it is equipped with running water, a bed, a radio, and other accessories. On his transcontinental trip, Carson expects to get more than 100 miles to a gallon of fuel.
Wow, that is purely awesome. That is the kind of thing that made America great.
Comment by Caya — May 23, 2007 @ 4:09 pm
30 mph and 100 mpg from 1 hp???
Now THAT’S the kind of engines we need today!
Comment by Stannous — May 23, 2007 @ 4:55 pm
Is Freddie still around ? I would like to honour him with life time membership to “Knights of the Third Wheel”
Comment by Mike Smith — July 4, 2009 @ 11:17 am
Gee, a Life membership based on a 72 year old story? Sure you can spare it?
Comment by Firebrand38 — July 4, 2009 @ 11:23 am