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Postman Smith made his escape in a four-wheeled scooter powered by a small gasoline engine. He stands at the back of his doodlebug, put-putting along at four to twelve miles an hour. For a delivery, he leaves his scooter contentedly burbling at the curb, manages to save not only foot-power but some 23% of the time formerly needed to cover his route. His superior, Superintendent of Mails B. H. Kaigler, intends to recommend the scooter's adoption for mailmen in residential districts everywhere...
Having built one scooter, Postman Smith is the smallest operator in a new automotive industry that has grown mightily within the past three years and is now engaged in trying to work itself out of the recreation-vehicle class. Visualized by scooter-makers is a flourishing trade in which one-lung puddle-jumpers will be used for messenger service, light deliveries, transportation of commuters from home to railroad station and back...
Unlike Postman Smith's contraption, the commercial scooter is a two-or three-wheeled affair. It can go up to 35 miles an hour, runs 120 miles on a gallon of gas. Underslung between small, pneumatic-tired wheels, it has handlebars like a motorcycle, a footboard on which the driver puts his feet, an enclosed engine housing over the rear wheel on which he sits. Unlike either bicycle or motorcycle, it can be ridden sitting straight up, with a minimum loss of dignity. The rider straddles no crossbar, has no engine between his knees to oil his slacks...
...Conn, home. Last week publishers Doubleday, Doran & Co., launching Author McFee's Derelicts, called attention to one of his neatest puttering jobs, a 30-in. scale model of a lifeboat propelled not by oars, but by a propeller turned by hand levers like those on an Irish Mail scooter...
...marathon craze-173 holes, 196 holes, 231 holes, 235 holes, posted almost daily by husky young caddies, schoolboys and even a Chicago housewife out to prove that 144 holes from dawn to dusk was nothing extraordinary. When a Northwestern University freshman played 301 holes, putt-putting around on a scooter bike, J. Smith Ferebee, nettled by such theft of his thunder, announced that he was embarking on a golf marathon to end all golf marathons: 600 holes in four days-a minimum of 72 holes in each of eight different cities (two a day) from coast to coast...