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buzz_uk OP t1_jcva2jg wrote

Reply to comment by PeeetUK in TIL: The British Ministry of Pensions distributed Invacars free to disabled people from 1948 until the 1970s. The Invacar was that vehicle. by buzz_uk

Yes indeed around 9000 were built by AC with the remaining once built by Greaves motorcycles

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PeeetUK t1_jcvalqk wrote

Greaves? Blimey, I didn't know that, cool.

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buzz_uk OP t1_jcvcluw wrote

Whilst Greaves no longer make motor cycles the family still have an engineering works in the same building where the Invacars were made, and if you ask nicely they still have new old stock spare parts :)

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2000feetup t1_jcvj68k wrote

I think I remember reading that the first one was made for one of the Greaves family.

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