Motorway Signs - Invalid Carriages?

K2 · 09-01-2006 1:26pm #1

The motorway ahead sign has a list of 7 users prohibted from using the motorway. Does anyone know what "invalid-carriages" means?

Does it refer to a disabled driver, a vehicle adapted to carry a disabled passenger or might it have an entirely different meaning.

seamus · 09-01-2006 1:27pm

Wheelchairs.

tbh · 09-01-2006 1:27pm

motorized wheelchair?

Alun · 09-01-2006 1:33pm

Not sure if I've seen them here in Ireland, but in the UK you always used to see a lot of these (usually light blue, for some reason) three-wheeler contraptions which were made specifically for physically handicapped persons. They used a very small two-stroke engine IIRC and were speed limited to something like 30 or 40mph. Not allowed on M-ways in the UK either.

I think now that there's a much higher availability of conversions of mainstream cars, that these things have thankfully pretty much disappeared from the scene.

el tel · 09-01-2006 2:13pm

Alun wrote:

Not sure if I've seen them here in Ireland, but in the UK you always used to see a lot of these (usually light blue, for some reason) three-wheeler contraptions which were made specifically for physically handicapped persons. They used a very small two-stroke engine IIRC and were speed limited to something like 30 or 40mph. Not allowed on M-ways in the UK either.

I think now that there's a much higher availability of conversions of mainstream cars, that these things have thankfully pretty much disappeared from the scene.

I remember those from when I was a kid. There were loads of those lttle sky-blue three-wheeled "InvaCars" (not unlike Reliant Robins), with motocycle handlebars instead of a steeing wheel and pedals. In Belfast we commonly referred to them as "cripple cars"

Motorway Signs - Invalid Carriages?

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