electric Rickshaw

This Electraction Rickshaw prototype – currently for sale – represented a brave new world when it first appeared in 1976. Created by Roy Haynes and intended to be used on beach resorts and small islands, the Rickshaw’s bodywork could be configured as anything from a beach buggy to an enclosed bus with doors and a canvas top. It was even roadtested in period by ex-lotus F1 driver John Miles, who found it simple to drive and handle and ‘quite swift’ up to its top speed of 30mph, but found it unrefined, and its silence uncanny.