Advertising Last completed movie pages Rhoades Hover ScooterClass: Bikes, Misc. — Model origin: 
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Vehicle used by a character or in a car chase
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◊ 2007-12-28 19:28 |
![[Image: frhlichezukunft138ua9.1499.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/0is166/frhlichezukunft138ua9.1499.jpg) ![[Image: frhlichezukunft139fy7.6155.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/0is174/frhlichezukunft139fy7.6155.jpg) ![[Image: frhlichezukunft141ft0.th.jpg]](http://img245.imageshack.us/my.php?image=frhlichezukunft141ft0.jpg "http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/4813/frhlichezukunft141ft0.th.jpg") ![[Image: frhlichezukunft142ht0.6392.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/0is120/frhlichezukunft142ht0.6392.jpg) On the side it says 'MotorCycle Rover Scooter'. I don't know if there were any connections with the Rover car company. Apart from one image I haven't found any information about this vehicle so far. |
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◊ 2007-12-28 19:33 |
This hover-scooter was develloped by the American Charles Rhoades, cf. Link to "www.viewimages.com" Edit: Alexander, I think it says 'hover scooter', not 'Rover'... -- Last edit: 2007-12-28 19:34:26 |
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◊ 2007-12-28 20:31 |
Thanks, Mike! Silly me, of course it is 'Hover Scooter'. Probably was thinking 'goes over land ... must be a Rover'. .gif ":)") Do you know if 'MotorCycle' was the company name? Or shall we use 'Rhoades' as the maker? |
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◊ 2007-12-28 20:53 |
'Motor Cycle' was a British magazine, presumably sponsoring this exhibition. It seems to have ceased publication in the 70s. |
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◊ 2007-12-28 20:55 |
Of course! That's why it looked so familiar! Then let's call it 'Rhoades Hover Scooter'. |
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◊ 2007-12-28 21:33 |
We do not list hoovercrafts do we?  |
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◊ 2007-12-30 15:11 |
I do not think so, the limit was that the vehicle must have wheels or eventually being tracker (i.e. like snow things) -- Last edit: 2007-12-30 15:12:02 |
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◊ 2007-12-30 21:12 |
No, because you have to push these: ![[Image: hoover24e5408eet1.5995.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/0is404/hoover24e5408eet1.5995.jpg) (Just joking, I constantly mistype it myself!) --- I listed it, and also the Curtiss-Wright, for a good reason. In the late 1950s and through the 1960s many companies started developing air-cushion vehicles. In those years many people were seriously forecasting the demise of the wheeled car and a future were everyone will hover. This was not just a hobby of some eccentric inventor, but serious money was invested. And it was one of the reasons Curtiss-Wright is no longer the big company it once was. This Hover Scooter was intended as a replacement for all motorbikes, while the Curtiss-Wright proclaimed the future car. As fast as all the companies sprang up they went down again. Probably they noticed the flaw in the principle when they took the hovering vehicles onto the public roads and first encountered a red traffic light. You need an anchor to break a hovercraft fast. The hovercrafts we have not listed before, e.g. here, are replacements for boats ... and we do not list boats. Another hovercraft is the Aérotrain Expérimental 01 train shown in the main comments of this documentary. -- Last edit: 2007-12-31 19:05:31 |
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