Early motorized scooters

[JEDI]

I present to you the auto-ped from shortly after WW1.

 

[sdifox]

I am not wearing that!

 

[MrSquished]

looks like a steampunk scooter. pretty neat.

 

[SKORPI0]

Images show first E-Scooters as Suffragettes ride them around London

Electric scooters may seem like a new phenomenon in Britain, but these incredible black and white photographs from over a century ago reveal that they have actually been around before.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[IronWing]

Images show first E-Scooters as Suffragettes ride them around London

Electric scooters may seem like a new phenomenon in Britain, but these incredible black and white photographs from over a century ago reveal that they have actually been around before.

www.dailymail.co.uk

The Daily Mail strikes again! That's not an e-scooter. It is clearly liquid fuel powered.

 

[pcgeek11]

Autoped Motor Scooter, 1918

The Autoped Company of America, of Long Island City, New York, built this lightweight scooter in 1918. It bears the number D3201 on the left side of the engine.

americanhistory.si.edu

Autoped Motor Scooter, 1918​

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

Where's the heated pizza box?

 

[Iron Woode]

The Daily Mail strikes again! That's not an e-scooter. It is clearly liquid fuel powered.

from the article:

Although the majority of these vehicles, known as Autopeds, were powered by petrol, electric versions were also made available to the Edwardian public.

 

[scorpmatt]

I am not wearing that!

You ride the scooter not wear it.