Weird and wonderful modes of transportation from the “Good Old Days”.

Back in what people strangely call the “Good Old Days” probably around eighty years ago, there were some very weird and wonderful inventions when it comes to modes of transportation!  Old time machines that were deemed fit as ways to carry people from one place to another.  Go back to the year 1922 and a motorized baby carriage was invented which for a very short time was very popular!  The nanny or sometimes mum herself would stand on the back of the chassis of the perambulator on two footrests and steer the contraption with the handlebars, achieving speeds of up to four miles per hour!  Another even more bizarre, wheeled contraption created by inventor Charles Steinlauf, the aptly named “Goofybike, was not only designed to get you from A to B but to power a sewing machine as well.  This completely crazy four-person, bizarre vehicle had the members of Steinlauf’s family sat in varying positions on the bike, including his young daughter perched precariously on the front while his wife sat on a raised platform to sew!

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Built by eighty-year-old inventor Z. Wiggs was another completely mad contraption called the “Pooch Mobile”, it looked like a huge hamster wheel with a large breed dog secured inside of it!  The “Hamster Wheel” was attached to a frame and wheels, the driver sat at the front with the handlebars and the idea was that the dog would walk inside the large wheel and push the driver along!  Unfortunately, the frame and “Hamster Wheel” were so heavy the poor dog couldn’t move it!  Personally, I don’t fancy any of these mad methods of transportation and would much rather use a Van Rental Bristol company. Searching Google terms such as Looking for Van Rental Bristol I would very quickly source a much more reliable form of vehicle.

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Let’s go to the year 1924 and have a look at the very bizarre “Land Boat”, this mad rowing boat shaped wheeled cart was powered by two oarlike levers.  By pulling on the oars the “Land Boat” would shoot forwards several strides at a time, strangely this invention didn’t catch on and no more than six of these crafts were ever in existence at one time. Our last, but by no means least crazy invention is the 1939 Whirligig Car, more of an exercise machine than a method of transportation, this stationary invention was a predecessor of our more modern rowing machines.