Not Sure Why This Baby Carriage Bicycle Sidecar From 100-Years Ago Didn’t Take Off – IOTW Report

Not Sure Why This Baby Carriage Bicycle Sidecar From 100-Years Ago Didn’t Take Off

Tuesday, 2 July 2024, 19:00 MJA Uncategorized 21

Problem?
Too flimsy, and it’s in the city amongst cars.
Pass. lol

21 Comments on Not Sure Why This Baby Carriage Bicycle Sidecar From 100-Years Ago Didn’t Take Off

  2. Not to be picky, but that looks like an “English Racer” (what we used to call them) and in the thirtys.
    Eh… close enough!
    When we were little kids we used to look for wheels like that for making go-push carts!

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  3. As mum was putting the face shield up, that poor little thing looked like an inmate being put in the gas chamber.

    Adding that carriage would have a dramatic effect — a bad effect — on handling and controllability of the bicycle. Anybody here ever pilot an outfit (motorcycle with sidecar)? Hard no.

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  4. AJ – in a junk yard somewhere there is a 56 Oldsmobile with an imprint of my teeth on the metal dashboard! I would stand on the floor in back with my hands on the back of the front seat watching everything thru the windshield when Mom hit the brakes. Some may know what Olds power brakes were like… it didn’t take much pressure to lock ’em up! Anyway I took flight into the dash and wound up in the hospital.

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  10. Jethro, I remember a family had one of those and the Mom would put it on a high back chair in the living room with her kid in it while she did housework.
    Didn’t know they were for cars.
    Learn something new every day.

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  12. My mom was driving our 53 Packard Clipper back from a local neighborhood grocery store on Spokane’s S. hill sometime in the late 50’s or very early 60’s. When she made a left turn onto the main street, I was sitting in the front seat next to her and my 3 younger brothers were in the back seat. Any way when she turned the passenger door in the front flew open and I was hanging on for dear life to the door before she was able to stop. In the back seat meanwhile a large can fell out of the grocery bag and broke a glass gallon milk jug and the broken glass shredded one of my younger brother’s arms. And there was blood everywhere but fortunately we were close by Deaconess Hospital which was only a mile or so away down the hill and she went there immediately to get my brothers arm stitched up immediately in the emergency room. That was quite a trip to the neighborhood grocery store which we all survived. Sometimes I wonder how we managed to survive in those older cars with no safety equipment whatsoever. We all range in age from myself being 71 now to my youngest brother at 66 and we’re all still here. Those were fun but very dangerous times back then. My mom never flinched with any of the injuries and accidents that my brothers and I suffered, she was quite the trooper in making sure that we were safe and well taken care of. I can’t imagine any mom or dad now being able to do what we did back in those days other than sue someone else because it’s their fault.

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  13. My folks drove to San Francisco from Spokane when I was about 2 or 3 about 1955 or 56 in my dad’s old large gray 47 Packard to visit his older brother who lived in San Jose. I only had one brother at that time and don’t remember much of that trip except I think we went to the San Francisco Zoo where I saw a tiger from some of the pictures that my parents took.

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  17. I had a 1938 Oldsmobile as a field car as a kid in the 50s. My neighbor had a Crossly. We took them out on the main road now and then. We learned allot but never had anything go wrong that required a doctor, band-aides maybe, or a few don’t tell my dad events. We are both still kicking…

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  20. Couldn’t have been any worse then the apartment playpen cages that parents would hang out an upper floor window in midair.
    At least the sidecar was on the ground.

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