Learning-About-Mobility-Scooters

All around Australia, people rely on their mobility scooters to get them safely from place to place. Today's models are much more sophisticated than early examples; tomorrow's scooters will be even more so.

The beginning of the Mobility Scooter -

Wheelchairs were the precursors to modern mobility scooters, and were being used as far back as the 16th century. Those devices were mostly used as a practical means of transporting incapacitated individuals around, and did little - if anything - to encourage individual mobility. In 1932, the first folding wheelchair was introduced; the lightweight construction and more transportable nature of the device represented a major turning point in the world of mobility equipment. More importantly, the first powered wheelchair roared to life in the year 1950. From there, the road to the modern mobility scooter was firmly set; further advancements continued and peaked in the 1960's with the creation of the first bonafide mobility scooter.


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