Motor Rickshas for Papua
p. 30 · Read in the full issue
Prom Our Own Correspondent
Port Moresby, April 30.
BACK from an overseas trip, Cap tain Bobby Gibbes produced a motor ricksha in w'hich he and Mrs. Gibbes did much of their itravelling through Europe. Now he intends to import several of these machines and a company is to be formed to operate a motor-ricksha taxi service in Port Moresby and other Territory towns.
The “ricksha” is a four-horse power motor-scooter, trailing a two
passenger chassis, or, in an alter nate model, a delivery van capable of carrying 440 pounds of freight.
Petrol consumption is 70-80 miles a gallon; the ricksha cruises at something like twenty-five miles an hour.