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Many drift trikes are homemade or custom-fabricated by professional welders. Commercially released children's versions have been released by bike manufacturers such as Drift Trike Factory, Huffy, Crane, Airwalk, and Triciclos de la Montaña. Local Motors was the first to introduce an electric, adult drift trike to the market.
At the Stanley Cycle Show in 1896 in London, England, bicycle manufacturer Humber exhibited an electric tandem bicycle. Powered by a bank of storage batteries, the motor was placed in front of the rear wheel. Speed control was by a resistance placed across the handlebars. This electric bicycle was mainly intended for racetrack use. [3]
A hand-power monowheel was patented in 1869 by Richard C. Hemming [2] with a pedal-power unit patented in 1885. [3] Various motorized monowheels were developed and demonstrated during the 1930s without commercial success [4] and Charles F Taylor was granted a patent for a "vehicle having a single supporting and driving wheel" in 1964 after some 25 years of experimentation. [5]
Total Control Racing (TCR) was a toy brand from Ideal which debuted in the late 1970s, similar to slot car sets, with approximately HO scale cars (and smaller scale semi-trailer trucks) that operated on a slotless track.
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Scalextric is a brand of slot car racing sets which first appeared in the late 1950s. Scalextric was invented by engineer B. Fred Francis, [1] when he added an electric motor to the Scalex tin cars that were produced by Minimodels Ltd, his own company. [2] The first "Scalextric" were first made in Havant, Hampshire, in 1956.
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