Scott three-wheeled machine gun carrier.

[klem]

Designed during the years of ww1 by Scott, the famous motorcyclist, this rather nice useful and practical three-wheeled machine gun carrier for military use was unlucky to be retained by the military authorities and we all know how such a machine could have had a very important role in wartime.

 

[MadRat]

Interesting. Are those leather tires?? So its a transport not really a platform?

 

[Nik]

Could this have inspired the bike+side-car used by the WW2 Germans ?? Or just 'convergent evolution'...

 

[JWilly]

Could this have inspired the bike+side-car used by the WW2 Germans ??

Several other such designs were created during the 20s and 30s, including these:

 

[riggerrob]

There were even a few attempts at transporting mortars by motorcycle sidecar. They tended to drop the baseplate onto the ground before firing the mortar.

 

[BlackBat242]

And the mortarcycle:





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