• The e-scooter isn’t new – London was zooming around on Autopeds a century ago

    The e-scooters that clutter up pavements may seem like a new thing, but a hundred years ago, there were already people zooming around London on powered scooters.
    Lady Florence Norman 1916 (street background expanded)
    These were the Autoped, an American import that was once popular enough to regularly appear in the newspapers before vanishing seemingly without a trace.
    Invented in the USA in 1915, they first appeared in London in 1917, despite a ban on imports during WWI, and really took off when

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