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From: Joe.Chamberlain@f140.n150.z1.fidonet.org (Joe Chamberlain)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: Super-wheelchair
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Date: 2 Nov 90 03:58:37 GMT
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 WK>     Called Permobil, this battery-driven motorized chair can go over
 WK> curbs, climb up hills, and whiz along through ice and snow.  It can
 WK> achieve speeds up to 8 miles an hour and go a total of 25 miles without
 WK> a battery recharge.  The chair has been used for a dozen years in Sweden
 WK> by four-year-old children, grandparents with arthritic legs, and even
 WK> spinal-cord patients who still have the use of their shoulders and upper
 WK> arms.
     
        Sounds like some sort of tractor-tread design.  Was there 
a picture with it?
                                -=joe=-

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