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081 Dodgem Car (1930s) New Brighton

            Dodgem Car (1930's)

This was a new one for me, i thought it was a junior training car, but no. It is an early dodgem car, designed to look like a contemporary MG and was part of a large fleet of such cars, used on a concrete track at New Brighton Fairground, Merseyside. Before the arrival of the modern style Bumper Cars and electric power, these sturdy cars were driven around a track and marshalled by the attendants who would hop onto the running boards, making sure the drivers behaved  themselves. If not the front of the running board acted as a break. The cars were taken out of service in the 1960's and moved to a barn. The Museum bought this one in the 1990s and restored it. Power was delivered via a Stuart Turner marine type single cylinder engine and had a top speed of around 5mph

NEW BRIGHTON
had been founded as a resort in the mid 19th Centuary, and was so called following the sucess of Brighton in Sussex, and soon the workers from Liverpool and Lancashires industrial towns were flocking to it. Like all good seaside towns it had a Tower (at 567 feet it was larger than the Blackpool Tower), a ballroom, pier, promenade, lido and of course fun fair

Thankyou for a massive 56,603,950 views 

Shot 13.06.2016 at the Lakeland Motor Museum, Backbarrow, Cumbria REF 122-081

Taken in: UK / England / South Lakeland District / Backbarrow (show map)

Taken on: December 9, 2020

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