The A-Z of Popular Scooters & Microcars: Cruising in style!
Kabinews, January 2008Review by Sarah SnowdenClub magazine of The Messerschmitt Owners ClubThis is a new book by Michael Dan (MOC member) and the whole idea of this book is to recreate the scene and atmosphere of Britain in the 1950s when scooters and microcars first had a significant effect on the streets. It also sets out to provide data and detail necessary to serve as a reference source, together with some happy recollections of that era. The book gives a lot of information about 'what is a scooter?' and 'what is a microcar?'. Also details of the market place where you can or could buy these vehicles from and scooter and microcar clubs and activities. It has scooter and microcar photo galleries and the photo of each vehicle has a small caption detailing make, where and when it was built, what kind of gearbox it has, number of seats, engine size, weight and maximum speed of the vehicle. It also has some other information such as production colors and if it can be driven by 16 year olds. It also gives information on its background – who it was made for and what people, who bought the vehicle, used it for.In this book there is a time line for scooters going from 1952 up until 1969. it shows everything that was built through those years and when production of the vehicles ceased. It is an interesting book with lots of weird and wonderful vehicles and is well worth a look.