Hello to all, Please pass the…

Hello to all,

Please pass these and any other problems / ideas on to me, preferably with photographs that illustrate the issue if you can.

I am trying (through the RSA) to get a local university design group interested in designing a better wheelchair. I have in mind ideas that can be applied to both manually propelled and powered chairs - a set of design principles, if you will. But the intention is to end up with a design that can be offered up for manufacture. If we get it right, the first to manufacture will see a big competitive advantage - forcing others to come up with better designs of their own or suffer loss of market share. Economics in action.

I know this doesn't solve the immediate problems people have been describing here, but my plan is to drag wheelchair design screaming and kicking out of the Victorian age into the 21st century. It seems commercial / market forces are failing. Therefore the market needs a hefty kick from the side!

I would like to incorporate / exclude as many factors that apply to other wheelchair users as possible.

Please post here for now or contact me through www.biznik.co.uk

Thanks

George